| Included Work | Barnett, H. G. (Homer Garner), 1906-1985 Being a Palauan. |
| Included Work | Barnett, H. G. (Homer Garner), 1906-1985 Palauan society, a study of contemporary native life in the Palau Islands. |
| Included Work | Force, Roland W. Just one house, a description and analysis of kinship in the Palau Islands. |
| Included Work | Force, Maryanne, author. |
| Included Work | Force, Roland W. Leadership and cultural change in Palau. |
| Included Work | Kubary, J. S. (Jan Stanislaw), 1846-1896. Verbrechen und das Strafverfahren auf den Palau-Inseln. English. |
| Included Work | Nero, Karen L. Time of famine, time of transformation. |
| Included Work | Nero, Karen L. Hidden pain, drunkenness and domestic violence in Palau. |
| Included Work | Nero, Karen L. Breadfruit tree story, mythological transformations in Palauan politics. |
| Included Work | Parmentier, Richard J., 1948- Sacred remains. |
| Included Work | Parmentier, Richard J., 1948- Money walks, people talk, systematic and transactional dimensions of Palauan exchange. |
| Included Work | Parmentier, Richard J., 1948- Transactional symbolism in Belauan mortuary rites, a diachronic study. |
| Included Work | Parmentier, Richard J., 1948- Tales of two cities, the rhetoric of rank in Ngeremlengui, Belau. |
| Included Work | Parmentier, Richard J., 1948- Culture summary, Belauans. |
| Included Work | Shuster, Donald R. Palau's compact. |
| Included Work | Smith, DeVerne Reed, 1936- Palauan social structure. |
| Included Work | Ysaol, Joseph. Palauan ocheraol, a contemporary economic perspective. |
| Included Work | Chilton, Joseph I., author. |
| Included Work | Callaghan, Paul, author. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures
eHRAF World Cultures. Oceania. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents |
Being a Palauan ; Palauan society, a study of contemporary native life in the Palau Islands / Homer G. Barnett -- Just one house, a description and analysis of kinship in the Palau Islands / Roland W. Force and Maryanne Force -- Leadership and cultural change in Palau / Roland W. Force -- Crime and criminal actions in the Palau Islands / J. S. Kubary -- Time of famine, time of transformation: hell in the Pacific, Palau ; The hidden pain, drunkenness and domestic violence in Palau ; The breadfruit tree story, mythological transformations in Palauan politics / Karen L. Nero -- The sacred remains: myth, history, and polity in Belau ; Money walks, people talk, systematic and transactional dimensions of Palauan exchange ; Transactional symbolism in Belauan mortuary rites, a diachronic study ; Tales of two cities, the rhetoric of rank in Ngeremlengui, Belau ; Culture summary, Belauans / Richard J. Parmentier -- Palau's compact: controversy, conflict, and compromise / Donald R. Shuster -- Palauan social structure / DeVerne Reed Smith -- The Palauan ocheraol, a contemporary economic perspective / Joseph Ysaol, Joseph I. Chilton, Paul Callaghan. |
| Scope and content |
This collection of 16 documents covers a wide range of ethnographic information collected in 1940s to 1990s about the Belauans. The oldest available ethnographic information on Belauan culture and society in the collection was compiled by Augustin Krämer, a German ethnographer who visited Belau and neighboring islands in the early 1880s. Originally published in German in 1900, this document provides important information relating to traditional history, status and role of chiefs, kinship stem, family life, gender and sexuality, property inheritance, and crime and social control. The best general introduction to Belauan culture and society are the works of anthropologist H. G. Barnett. Together, these works describe several themes, including child care and development, women's status, economic activities, reciprocity and other forms of exchange, marriage and family relations, social personality, religion and recreation, as observed in the late 1940s. R. W. Force further enriched the information from 1940s with two books published based on fieldwork undertaken in 1954-1971. One of these books focuses on leadership and culture change. The other describes and analysis Belauan kinship. The remaining documents in the collection provide in-depth analysis of other themes, including changes in Belauan social structure as observed in 1970-1983; the dynamics of political life; traditional history and inter-village relations; money and the morality of exchange; social change at the family and community levels such as the impacts of war on family ties and shared cultural ideals, the ways traditional stories and mythologies are used in contemporary political life, and the rise of alcohol drinking and domestic violence; practices associated with the Belauan money-raising custom of ocheraol, an institution for mutual help by which a person asks relatives and in-laws to contribute money often to be used for constructing house or purchasing other key assets; and the effects of the Compact of Free Association agreement between the United States and Belau.. |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2011 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Nov. 14, 2011). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
