Marshallese / Laurence Marshall Carucci [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carucci, Laurence Marshall, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Marshall Islands.

Ethnology.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2011.

Summary:

This collection of 16 documents covers a wide variety of cultural and historical information about the Marshallese of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 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, formerly on active duty with the 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 during World War II. Carucci conducted extensive fieldwork among inhabitants of Ujelang/Enewetak Atolls on various occasions in 1976-2005. Topics covered by Carrucci include domestic violence, community life and concepts of morality, dynamics of grandparent/grandchildren relations, aspects of cosmology, and rites of passage. The remaining documents in the collection cover land tenure and inheritance rules, gender and family life, internal political dynamics and international relations, and contemporary development issues.

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