Book
The Carolines Island Yap
Wilhelm Süsserot • Berlin • Published In 1906 • Pages:
By: Salesius, Father.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a general ethnographic account of Yap culture. Clothing and adornment, behavior and personality, the economy and geography are covered in more detail than social and political organization and recreation. Religion is briefly mentioned. Some information is given about foreign populations on Yap, including missionaries. (The author was a member of the Capuchin Order).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Drives and emotions
- Modification of behavior
- Adjustment processes
- Personality traits
- Fishing
- Special garments
- Body alterations
- Medium of exchange
- Labor and leisure
- Boats
- Slavery
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1963
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900
- 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
- Father Salesius
- Translation of: [Die Karolinen-Insel Jap]
- The original German text is included
- Translated from the German in 1942 for the Yale Cross-Cultural Survey in connection with the Navy Pacific Islands Handbook Project
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)