| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Source of the force in Marshallese cosmology. |
| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Negotiations of violence in the Marshallese household. |
| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Working wrongly and seeking the straight, remedial remedies on Enewetak Atoll. |
| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Continuities and changes in Marshallese grandparenting. |
| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Jekero, symbolizing the transition to manhood in the Marshall Islands. |
| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Conceptions of maturing and dying in the 'middle of heaven'. |
| Included Work | Carucci, Laurence Marshall, 1949- Culture summary, Marshallese. |
| Included Work | Erdland, August. Marshall-Insulaner, Leben und Sitte, Sinn und Religion eines Südsee-Volkes. English. |
| Included Work | Krämer, Augustin, 1865-1941 Ralik-Ratak (Marshall Inseln). English. |
| Included Work | Mason, Leonard, 1913-2005. Economic organization of the Marshall Islanders. |
| Included Work | Mason, Leonard, 1913-2005. Marshallese nation emerges from the political fragmentation of American Micronesia. |
| Included Work | Nero, Karen L. Accounting for change, bringing interdependence into defining sustainability. |
| Included Work | Senfft, Arno. Marshall-Insulaner. English. |
| Included Work | Spoehr, Alexander, 1913-1992. Majuro, a village in the Marshall Islands. |
| Included Work | Tobin, J. E. Land tenure in the Marshall Islands. |
| Included Work | Wedgwood, Camilla H. (Camilla Hildegarde), 1901-1955. Notes on the Marshall Islands. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF World Cultures. Oceania. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
The source of the force in Marshallese cosmology ; Negotiations of violence in the Marshallese household ; Working wrongly and seeking the straight, remedial remedies on Enewetak Atoll ; Continuities and changes in Marshallese grandparenting ; Jekero, symbolizing the transition to manhood in the Marshall Islands ; Conceptions of maturing and dying in the 'middle of heaven' ; Culture summary, Marshallese / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- The Marshall Islanders: life and customs, thought and religion of a South Seas people / August Erdland -- Ralik-Ratak (Marshall Islands) / Augustin Krämer and Hans Nevermann -- The economic organization of the Marshall Islanders ; A Marshallese nation emerges from the political fragmentation of American Micronesia / Leonard Mason -- Accounting for change, bringing interdependence into defining sustainability / Karen L. Nero -- The Marshall Islanders / Arno Senfft -- Majuro, a village in the Marshall Islands / Alexander Spoehr -- Land tenure in the Marshall Islands / J. E. Tobin -- Notes on the Marshall Islands / Camilla H. Wedgwood. |
| Scope and content |
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. |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2011 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file, Marshalls. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Nov. 13, 2011). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
