Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
The Marshallese collection consists of 15 documents, covering a wide variety of cultural and historical information, circa 1900 to 2005. The earliest descriptions of Marshallese culture and society in the collection are translations from the German originally compiled by a colonial official, two ethnologists, and a missionary. Together, these three documents provide detailed geographic and ethnographic information as observed in 1900-1909. Two documents in the collection are first-hand accounts of Marshallese village life and economic situation as observed in 1946-1947. One of these was a commissioned research by the U.S. government company which sought background cultural and economic information for planning future economic development for the Marshall Islands. The other was authored by Alexander Spoehr, a former U.S. Navy who returned to the Majuro in 1947 as a civilian to conduct ethnological work. In this work, Spoehr contrasts changes in Marshallese culture he observed with his own earlier observations while on active duty with the Navy during World War II. L. M. Carucci conducted extensive fieldwork among inhabitants of Ujelang/Enewetak Atolls on various occasions in 1976-2005. Topics covered by Carrucci include domestic violence (1990, no. 9), community life and concepts of morality (1998, no. 10), dynamics of grandparent/grandchildren relations, aspects of cosmology (1989, no. 22), and rites of passages. The remaining documents in the collection further enrich information in the above three category of works with additional themes and in-depth analyses including land tenure and inheritance rules, gender and family life, internal political dynamics and international relations, and contemporary development issues
Note:
Culture summary: Marshallese - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 2011 -- - Majuro: a village in the Marshall Islands - Alexander Spoehr - 1949 -- - Ralik-Ratak (Marshall Islands) - Augustin Krämer and Hans Nevermann - 1938 -- - The Marshall Islanders: life and customs, thought and religion of a South Seas people - August Erdland - 1914 -- - The Marshall Islanders - Arno Senfft - 1903 -- - Land tenure in the Marshall Islands - J. E. Tobin - 1952 -- - Notes on the Marshall Islands - Camilla H. Wedgwood - 1943 -- - The economic organization of the Marshall Islanders - Leonard E. Mason - 1947 -- - The source of the force in Marshallese cosmology - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 1989 -- - Negotiations of violence in the Marshallese household - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 1990 -- - Working wrongly and seeking the straight: remedial remedies on Enewetak Atoll - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 1998 --
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- Continuities and changes in Marshallese grandparenting - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 2007 -- - JEKERO: symbolizing the transition to manhood in the Marshall Islands - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 1987 -- - A Marshallese nation emerges from the political fragmentation of American Micronesia - Leonard Mason - 1989 -- - Accounting for change: bringing interdependence into defining sustainability - Karen L. Nero - 1999 -- - Conceptions of maturing and dying in the 'middle of heaven' - Laurence Marshall Carucci - 1985
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Marshallinseln
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Bevölkerung
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