essay
Sibling sets as building blocks in greater Trukese society
Siblingship in Oceania • (8) • Published In 1981 • Pages: 201-224, 405-418
By: Marshall, Mac.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this article, Marshall examines the importance of siblingship in Chuuk society. Sibling sets include natural, lineage and fictive siblings, and also spouse-in-laws. Sibling relations are delimited by commonly held land and the obligation to share all produce (MWÖNGÖ). Also, all sibling relations are circumsribed by strict marriage and sexual proscriptions. The interdependence of siblings can be preserved after marriage by the common practice of sibling-set marriage, where siblings of one set marry the siblings of another set. The practice of levirate and sororate is also a way to preserve the integrity of sibling sets.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Regulation of marriage
- Family relationships
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Kinship regulation of sex
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Revision of some of the papers presented at a symposium entitled 'The meaning of sibling in Oceania' at the 7th annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, held Feb. 15-19, 1978, in Pacific Grove, Calif.
- Reprint. Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, c1979. (ASAO monograph ; no. 8) (Imprint series, UMI monographs)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-418)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81010495
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)