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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Flora
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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 ; 1969
- 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
- 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 18008301
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)