book chapter
Adoption on Romonum, Truk
Adoption in eastern Oceania • Honolulu • Published In 1970 • Pages: 314-340
By: Goodenough, Ruth Gallagher.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study on Chuuk adoption. The statistics show that rates of adoption were much higher in the postwar years than before the war. Goodenough attributes this trend to the high rate of venereal disease incurred by local Chuuk as a result of wartime occupation. Most adoptions occur within the father's or mother's lineage, and most often between siblings. Goodenough gives a partially psychological reason for adoption, relating it to the high value placed on nurturing in Chuuk society and the practice of collective childcare by kin and neighbors. Adoptions occur between larger, poorer families and childless, wealthier families, the latter able to provide the crucial ingredient of of adequate childcare. Fostering is also practiced, in which children maintain their ties to their real parent's lineage. Adoption is initiated by a childless couple first offering a parent help with infant care, followed by gift-giving, and the removal of the child.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Birth statistics
- Morbidity
- Adoption
- Conception
- Child care
- 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 chapter
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946-1965
- 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
- Ruth Gallagher Goodenough
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77089650
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)