Book
Yap
L. Friederichsen & Co. • 2 • Published In 1917 • Pages: HRAF ms: xii, 621 [original: xviii, 380 ]
By: Müller, Wilhelm.
Abstract
This monograph presents a meticulously detailed and well-rounded ethnography of the Yap people, with a slightly greater emphasis on material culture then on social structure and organization. The monograph is divided into two parts, the first of which presents general information on culture history, geography, the native population and the Yap language, while the second deals in more detail with such aspects as clothing, ornaments and tattooing, foods and their preparation, crafts and trade, numeration, measures, money, house construction and village layout, the canoe, weapons and warfare, games and toys, society and family, science and religion. The work is well illustrated with many plates and figures. The bibliography has not been translated into English. An additional glossary of native words has been added for the benefit of the researcher.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1964-1965
- Field Date
- 1909-1910
- Coverage Date
- 1909-1910
- Coverage Place
- Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- Notes
- Wilhelm Müller
- Translation of: [Yap]
- Translated from the German in 1942 for the Yale Cross-Cultural Survey in connection with the Navy Pacific Islands Handbook Project
- LCSH
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)