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Culture summaryessay 2011 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This is a culture summary of the Marshallese. Information is presented on major aspects of the Marshallese culture....The source of the force in Marshallese cosmologyessay 1989 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This article discusses aspects of Marshallese cosmology with particular emphasis on the ways residents of Enewetak Atoll understood the reasons that accounted for superiority of American military power. It shows that the Marshallese maintained severa...Negotiations of violence in the Marshallese householdarticle 1990 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This paper discusses the nature of inter-personal violence among Marshallese Islanders. It argues that violence is encountered among Marshallese Islanders but within the domestic sphere it is not necessarily initiated by males. Instead, the paper arg...Working wrongly and seeking the straightarticle 1998 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This article discusses perceptions of wrongdoing and justice in Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. It argues that constructions of wrongdoing are culturally relative. It further argues that ideas and feelings about just and unjust action within the En...Continuities and changes in Marshallese grandparentingarticle 2007 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This paper discusses the nature of grandparent-grandchildren relationship among Marshallese Islanders. it argues that for Marshallese, grandparents do not exist as independent types of kin. Instead, a grandparent is regarded as a partner in a recipro...JEKEROarticle 1987 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This article argues that the production and consumption of palm wine symbolizes the transition to manhood on Ujelang Atoll. It shows how islanders draw parallels between toddy production and processes of maturing which, along with training in process...Conceptions of maturing and dying in the 'middle of heaven'essay 1985 • Carucci, Laurence Marshall
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
This document, which was originally published a chapter in an edited volume, discusses concepts of maturing and dying among the Enewetak people of Ujelang Atoll, Marshall Islands. It does so based on ethnographic information relating to cultural defi...