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Political organization, supernatural sanctions and the punishment for incest on Yap
American anthropologist • 59 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 791-800
By: Schneider, David Murray.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article examines the complexities of the problem of the relationship between Yap political organization and the nature and severity of the punishment for incest. As a part of his general thesis, the author, a professional anthropologist, attempts to show who in the society has the right to inflict punishment on an offender (in the case of the Yap, the patrilineage). The author presents a brief outline of Yap incest regulations and an analysis of the relationship between political structure (again with emphasis on the patrilineage) and punishment. The paper is based on the author's fieldwork undertaken in 1947-1948, supported by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Council.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Family relationships
- Lineages
- Clans
- Community structure
- Sanctions
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- 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
- article
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1964, 1967
- 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
- David M. Schneider
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 800)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)