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Premarital freedom on Truk: theory and practice
American anthropologist • 51 • Published In 1949 • Pages: 615-620
By: Goodenough, Ward Hunt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Goodenough discusses the socio-psychological aspect of premarital freedom among the Chuukese in this document. Goodenough points out that the permissive attitude towards premarital sex, and the frank approach to sexual intercourse in general, do not necessarily reduce either the idealization of romantic love or the preoccupation with sex found so widespread among the young people of Chuuk. This article also illustrates the extreme duality of sexual attitudes towards sex in marriage as opposed to sex occurring in the usually extramarital 'sweetheart relationships.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sexuality
- Sexual intercourse
- Premarital sex relations
- Extramarital sex 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
- article
- 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. Goodenough
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 620)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)