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Culture summaryessay 2018 • Lambert, Bernd
Kiribati • Oceania > Micronesia
This is a culture summary of the people of Kiribati. Information is presented on major aspects of the culture of Kiribati....The Gilbert Islandsessay 1971 • Lambert, Bernd
Kiribati • Oceania > Micronesia
This document discusses land tenure in the Makin and Butaritari atolls as observed both in the pre-contact period and during the post-1922 period following the introduction of privatization by colonial officials. The focus is on the ways the governme...The economic activities of a Gilbertese chiefessay 1966 • Lambert, Bernd
Kiribati • Oceania > Micronesia
This document discusses the economic activities of Kiribati chiefs. In addition to the culturally expected duty of collecting valued foodstuffs for redistribution, chiefs played other roles. The most important included sponsoring public projects (not...Fosterage in the northern Gilbert Islandsarticle 1964 • Lambert, Bernd
Kiribati • Oceania > Micronesia
This document focuses on structural factors that led to widespread child adoption and fosterage in two Northern Kiribati communities. Child-giving families and kin groups typically own more land and command more political influence than child-rearers...Ambilinial descent groups in the northern Gilbert Islandsarticle 1966 • Lambert, Bernd
Kiribati • Oceania > Micronesia
Traditional Kiribati and culturally-related Polynesian societies were organized into ambilineal descent groups comprised of all persons who could trace descent, alternatively through male or female links, to the group’s founder and who inherited righ...Makin and the outside worldessay 1975 • Lambert, Bernd
Kiribati • Oceania > Micronesia
This document integrates data from archival sources, census data, and oral histories to reconstruct demographic changes in Makin and Butaritari. It shows that on the eve of World War II the population of both communities was more than double what it ...