Continuity of Indigenous Ponapean Social Structure and Stratification

Hughes, Daniel T. (September 1982). "Continuity of Indigenous Ponapean Social Structure and Stratification". Oceania. 53 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1982.tb01522.x. ISSN 1834-4461 0029-8077, 1834-4461 .

Abstract: One point of agreement among the social scientists who have worked on Ponape (Pohnepi) since World War II is that, despite extensive social, political, and economic modifications induced by prolonged foreign contact, the indigenous Ponapean socio-political system remains a strong and vital force in the lives of Ponapeans today. Part of that system is a social structure that involves a strongly hierarchical stratification. The question naturally arises of how and why the indigenous socio-political system with its hierarchical stratification has retained such vitality when some traditional systems in other parts of Oceania and even of Micronesia have not been able to do so. The purpose of this paper will be to synthesize evidence of continued and increasing vitality of the indigenous Ponapean system and to analyze some reasons for this continued vitality.

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