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The nature of nurture
American ethnologist • 4 (4) • Published In 1977 • Pages: 643-662
By: Marshall, Mac.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Marshall examines Chuuk friendship and artificial kinship ties. Among the Chuuk, sibling ties are the most important kinship relationship, although they can be frought with tension due to competition over parental love, and inheritance. Marshall examines how Chuuk create more ideal sibling-like relationships through friendships (MääRääR) and fictive kin relationships (PWIIPWI),which can be further bounded through adoption. He finds that the essential ingredient in these created relationships and in kinship,. in general, is sharing. He argues that the clear Western distinction between kinship and friendship is not bourn out in the Chuuk case.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Friendships
- Family relationships
- Adoption
- Kin relationships
- Artificial kin relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chuuk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1971, 1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1976
- 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
- Mac Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 660-662)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74644326
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)