Book
Silent voices speak: women and prohibition in Truk
Wadsworth Pub. Co. • Belmont, Calif. • Published In 1990 • Pages: xiii, 190
By: Marshall, Mac, Marshall, Leslie B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a focused study of the women's termperance movement on Moen Island, Chuuk Islands, between 1976 and 1985. Mac Marshall has written extensively on Chuuk drinking behavior (see document no. 33) and had the opportunity to study the successful enactment of prohibition in the municipality of Moen. The impetus for prohibition came from women who petitioned locals and demonstrated outside government buildings. The Marshalls show how the temperance movement rose from both women's church clubs and the broader-based coalitions they formed with other groups throughout the Pacific. They also compare the Chuuk movement with the nineteenth century temperance movement in the United States, and with similar movements throughout the the Pacific Islands. The Marshalls note that whereas the temperance moverment modernized women by forcing them onto the public stage, they were motivated by traditional concerns for domestic welfare.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Alcoholic beverages
- External relations
- Pressure politics
- Political movements
- Congregations
- Gender roles and issues
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- 1969-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Moen Island, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mac Marshall and Leslie B. Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-163)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89035287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)