article

Concerning the Carolines Island of Yap

Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erkunde zu Berlin28 • Published In 1901 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-20 [original: 62-76 ]

By: Volkens, G..

Abstract
This article, although presenting a fairly good study of Yap geography, is disappointing in its superficial treatment of the ethnography of the Yapese people. Most of the cultural data revolves around various aspects of the material culture, (which incidentally has been dealt with far more adequately in other sources in this file), with little information on social organization except in a brief passage on slavery and a reference to the division of Yap into political districts. The author does present some data on the physical aspects of the population and their 'supposed' racial affinities. Along these lines he suggests an unsubstantiated theory to the effect that the Yapese people may have originated from the east, '… even from America …' (p. 8), instead of the Malayan area which was the current theory at the time.
Subjects
Topography and geology
Flora
Normal garb
Ornament
Slavery
culture
Yapese
HRAF PubDate
2000
Region
Oceania
Sub Region
Micronesia
Document Type
article
Evaluation
Creator Type
Natural Scientist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 1969
Field Date
ca. 1900
Coverage Date
1900
Coverage Place
Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
Notes
G. Volkens
Translation of: [über die Karolinen-Insel Yap]
Translated from the German in 1942 for the Yale Cross-Cultural Survey in connection with the Navy Pacific Islands Handbook Project
LCCN
18008301
LCSH
Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)