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The legal customs of the Yap natives
Globus • 91 • Published In 1907 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1, 39 leaves [original: 139-143, 149-153, 171-175 ]
By: Senfft, Arno.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, written by a German colonial official, concerns the legal and social customs of the Yapese. The first section discusses family and personal law. It covers normative behavior associated with reproduction, sex, marriage, divorce, death and inheritance, and discusses social stratification including caste, class and sex distinctions. The second section concerns property rights and sanctions for violation of those rights. The most common sanction, which is referred to frequently throughout the text, is BUNGUT, the distraint of property belonging to the wrongdoer. The third section concerns sanctions for criminal offences and the methods for executing of enforcing those sanctions. The final section discusses political structure, the tax system, warfare, and international relations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Community structure
- Law
- Composition of population
- Castes
- Offenses and sanctions
- Serfdom and peonage
- Territorial organization
- Community
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- Helen Gunsher Bornstein ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900-ca. 1905
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1905
- 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
- Arno Senfft
- Translation of: [Die Rechtsitten der Jap-Eingeborenen]
- 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)