Book
The Micronesians of Yap and their depopulation: report of the Peabody Museum Expedition to Yap Island, Micronesia, 1947-1948
Peabody Museum, Harvard University • (24) • Published In 1949 • Pages: iii, 223
By: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Hunt, Edward E. (Edward Eyre), Schneider, David Murray, Kidder, Nathaniel R., Stevens, William D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the causal factors relating to depopulation on Yap which has taken place after western contact and under the Spanish, German and Japanese colonial administrations of the island. Various theories which have been proposed in the past for the problem of depopulation in other areas of the world are examined as well as social, cultural and psychological factors inherent in Yap culture. In so doing a great amount of data on Yap cultural life and the various colonial administrative policies has been assembled.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Descriptive somatology
- Population
- Morbidity
- Vegetable production
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Kinship terminology
- Lineages
- Clans
- General sex restrictions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yapese
- 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
- Robert J. Theodoratus ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1948
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edward E. Hunt, Jr., David M. Schneider, Nathaniel R. Kidder, and William D. Stevens
- On cover: Coordinated investigation of Micronesian anthropology, 1947-1949 [conducted by] Pacific Science Board, National Research Council
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 50002553
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)