Book
Truk: man in paradise
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research • (20) • Published In 1953 • Pages: 655
By: Gladwin, Thomas, Sarason, Seymour Bernard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is based primarily on seven months of field work that Gladwin undertook on the island of Romonum in the Chuuk group in 1947, and is supplemented by information obtained from other members of the Yale University team on Chuuk who were participating in the Coordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology. The monograph is divided into two major divisions, the first of which presents data on the general ethnographic background of Chuuk, listed under the chapter headings of "The Setting, The People Today, The Baby, The Child, Youth, Lovers, Marriage, The Trukese Adult, Death," and an example of Chuukese case history as illustrated by a woman called Eleanor. The second division of this work gives psychological data on the description and development of the Chuukese personality, and the technique used by the authors in their analyses (e. g. use of the Rorschach and the Thematic Apperception Tests). Twenty-three case histories are then presented (twelve men and eleven women) along with the final analysis of each personality on the basis of the results obtained from their performances on the Rorschach and the T.A.T. tests. The actual "raw" data obtained from these tests will be found in appendices A and B of this monograph. All test interpretations given in this work were done by Dr. Sarason, a psychologist, and these coupled with the ethnographic data gathered primarily by Gladwin, served as the basis of the latter's Ph.D. thesis submitted to Yale University.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality development
- Personality traits
- Life history materials
- 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
- 1947-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Romonum Island, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas Gladwin and Seymour B. Sarason
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54009930
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)