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The Marquesans are the inhabitants of the six larger islands of the Marquesan Island group: Nukuhiva, 'Ua Pou, 'Ua Huka, Fatuiva, Tahuate, and Hora Oa, including intermittent occupation of some of the smaller islands of the group (e.g. Eiao). There has also been a large scale emigration of Marquesans to Tahiti. Subsistence is based on tree products (e.g. breadfruit, bananas, plantains) and root-crop horticulture supplemented by fishing. The political organization of the Marquesas consists of a number of chiefdoms, each without clearly defined territorial domains. Social organization was hierarchical, based on "tapu" principles, ritual occupation, sex, age, chiefly rank and property ownership.

The native culture in the Marquesas

Tattooing in the Marquesas

The Marquesan notion of the person

The material culture of the Marquesas Islands

Marquesan culture

Parenting in Polynesia

Marquesan sexual behavior

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Handy, E. S. Craighill (Edward Smith Craighill)	The native culture in the Marquesas	1923
Handy, Willowdean C.	Tattooing in the Marquesas	1922
Kirkpatrick, John	The Marquesan notion of the person	1983
Linton, Ralph	The material culture of the Marquesas Islands	1923
Linton, Ralph	Marquesan culture	1939
Martini, Mary I.	Parenting in Polynesia	1992
Suggs, Robert C. (Robert Carl)	Marquesan sexual behavior	1963
Thomas, Nicholas	Culture summary	2011

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