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Concerning the Carolines Island of Yap

Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Erkunde zu Berlin • 28 • 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.

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)