Book
Property, kin, and community on Truk
Published for Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University, Yale University Press • (46) • Published In 1951 • Pages: 192
By: Goodenough, Ward Hunt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph resulted from Goodenough's field work on Chuuk as a part of Yale University's participation in the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA), sponsored by the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Council, during 1947-1948. The author, a professional anthropologist, was one of several Yale personnel taking part in the CIMA program and received the assignment of studying the interaction patterns and religion of the Chuukese people. The final outcome of Goodenough's efforts are presented in this monograph. The data presented pertain to: the Chuukese property system (corporations, forms of ownership, types of property, exchange, relinquishment and acquisition of property, etc.), matrlineal kin groups (the lineage, sib, subsib, ramage, and descent line), kinship (consanguineal and affinal kin, the FUTUK), status systems and kinship behavior, residential kin groups (marriage patterns, nuclear and extended families, residence), territorial and political organization (the district and community), and history of Romonum and the Pwereka sib. Four appendices contain data on land tenure, land holdings on Romonum, a historical sketch of Romonum's lineages, and a glossary of native terms.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Kin groups
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chuuk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ward H. Hunt
- Twenty-two genealogocal charts to which reference is occasionally made in the text, will be found at the end of the document, paginated by HRAF as pp. 194-228.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-190)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 52003709
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)