essay
Taira: an Okinawan village
six cultures : studies of child rearing • New York • Published In 1963 • Pages: 1-13, 363-539
By: Maretzki, Thomas W., Maretzki, Hatsumi, Whiting, Beatrice B..
Abstract
This is an ethnographic report of Taira, a northeastern Okinawan village, based on field work conducted by a husband-and-wife team during 1954-55. The document has two parts: (1) a description of adulthood, and (2) a chronological account of child training from pregnancy to preadolescence. Part 1 includes, in addition to a general description of economy, polity, religion, family and kinship, education, and social organization, such special topics as social control, theory of disease, and leisure-time activities, in order to test patterns of succorance, nurturance, self-reliance, achievement, responsibility, obedience, dominance, sociability, and aggression (nine behavioral system hypotheses developed by Whiting and Child). Throughout the text, an attempt is made to compare the situation as it existed before World War II, during the War, and as it was in the mid-1950s. The introduction by Whiting has been included to provide the theoretical orientation and methodology of the document.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Hesung C. Koh ; 1965-1967
- Field Date
- 1954-1955
- Coverage Date
- late nineteenth century -1955
- Coverage Place
- village of Taíra, northeastern Okinawa, Ryukkyu Islands, Japan
- Notes
- [by] Thomas W. Maretzki and Hatsumi Maretski. Introduction by Beatrice B. Whiting
- LCCN
- 63008908
- LCSH
- Okinawa