Ulithi
Subtitle: a Micronesian design for living.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 118
Table of contents: title: Background. A place to live -- Those who stopped by -- Those who came to stay -- What is there to eat -- Basic social relations. The village -- The family -- Speaking of kinsmen -- The corporate lineage -- Relatives right and left -- Political organization. The village council -- The district -- Chief of them all -- Relations without -- Aspects of law. The stuff that makes law -- Leaves of distraint -- Liability -- The transcendental world. Ancestors who care -- Demons who menace -- Gods who control -- Rituals that tap supernatural power. Traits of the rituals -- The practitioners -- Areas of concern -- Antisocial rites -- Social effects of magic -- Sexual behavior. Views on sex and modesty -- Erotic expression and stimulation -- Coition and its rules -- From womb to tomb. Babyhood -- Childhood -- Adulthood -- Senescence and death -- Glossary.