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Yap kinship terminology and kin groupsarticle 1953 • Schneider, David Murray
Yapese • Oceania > Micronesia
In discussing Yap kinship terminology, the author distinguishes between terms of address and referential terms and shows how these terms are related to a kinship system encompassing matrilinea...Political organization, supernatural sanctions and the punishment for incest on Yaparticle 1957 • Schneider, David Murray
Yapese • Oceania > Micronesia
This article examines the complexities of the problem of the relationship between Yap political organization and the nature and severity of the punishment for incest. As a part of his general ...Abortion and depopulation on a Pacific Islandessay 1955 • Schneider, David Murray
Yapese • Oceania > Micronesia
The author was one of four anthropologists who spent nine months on Yap during 1947-1948 to study the problem of depopulation. The work was sponsored by Harvard University and the National Res...Zuni kin termsBook 1956 • Schneider, David Murray & Roberts, John M. (John Milton)
Zuni • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this excellent document the authors examine the kinship system of the Zuni in order to ascertain the basic principles and underlying the terminology and to test the interpretations of Zuni ...The Micronesians of Yap and their depopulationBook 1949 • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Expedition to Yap Island, Micronesia et al.
Yapese • Oceania > Micronesia
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the causal factors relating to depopulation on Yap which has taken place after western contact and under the Spanish, German and Japanese col...