Book
An atoll culture: ethnography of Ifaluk in the central Carolines
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 1953 • Pages: iii, 355
By: Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant), Spiro, Melford E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general ethnographic description of the Ifaluk people of Weleai Region in the Federated States of Micronesia with particular emphasis on fishing, gardening, canoe making, residence pattern, kinship system, government, religion, life cylces and relations with other people in the neihgboring atolls and beyond. The book was based on materials collected through six months of residence in Ifaluk. Much of the data were gathered through observation and the use of a native Ifaluk man as an interpretor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Fishing
- Vegetable production
- Eating
- Felted and other non-interworked fabrics
- Normal garb
- Personal grooming
- Settlement patterns
- Shipbuilding
- Weapons
- Travel
- Routes
- Navigation
- Music
- Dance
- Status, role, and prestige
- Kin relationships
- Community structure
- Community heads
- External relations
- Burial practices and funerals
- General character of religion
- Cosmology
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Woleai Region
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- July, 1947 - February, 1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1678-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ifaluk, Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Edwin G. Burrows and Melford E. Spiro
- 'Report … based mainly on six months of residence on Ifaluk, from July, 1947, to February, 1948. This field work was part of the project called CIMA (Co-ordinated investigation of Micronesian anthropology) sponsored by the National Research Council at the request of the U. S. Navy.'
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-323)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54003418
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ifaluk Atoll (Micronesia)