Book
Just one house: a description and analysis of kinship in the Palau Islands
Bishop Museum Press • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1972 • Pages: 20-143
By: Force, Roland W., Force, Maryanne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph presents a detailed description and analysis of Belau kinship. The reader will also find much information scattered throughout this work on village life, men and women's clubs, the family group, age stratification, politics, status, and inheritance. In many cases the authors discuss the various aspects of Belauan ethnography described above from the standpoint of the rapid internal and external changes taking place in the society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Medium of exchange
- Priesthood
- Classes
- Diet
- Territorial hierarchy
- Community structure
- Division of labor by gender
- Social relationships and groups
- Social control
- Kinship terminology
- Regulation of marriage
- Basis of marriage
- Moieties
- Political movements
- Political parties
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Gender status
- Sociocultural trends
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Belau
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1990
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Koror on Koror Island; Ngerechelong on BabeldaobIsland, Republic of Belau
- NotesAdditional notes
- Roland W. Force and Maryanne Force
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-139)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72088778
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palauans
- Kinship--Palau
- Palau--Social life and customs