Majuro: a Village in the Marshall Islands
Spoehr, Alexander (1949-11-17). Majuro: a Village in the Marshall Islands. 39. Chicago Natural History Museum. ISBN 978-93-331-8344-4.
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Abstract: My first acquaintance with the Marshall Islands, and with the village that forms the subject of this report, was made during World War II. While on active duty in the Navy, I spent six months in the Marshall group during the latter part of the war. Fortunately, the nature of my duties allowed me considerable mobility, and I was able to become thoroughly versed at first hand in the physical characteristics of the atolls of the southern Marshalls, and of Majuro in particular. At this time, I also became acquainted with Majuro village. Although it was possible then to work with Marshallese informants for short periods, and hence to gain a limited amount of information on their present-day culture, the principal value for this report of my war-time experience in the Marshalls was the knowledge acquired of the physical features of Majuro village, its local organization, and its environmental setting. At the end of March, 1947, I returned to the Marshalls as a civilian, and conducted ethnological work at Majuro village for three and a half months, departing from the atoll the middle of July. The observations made on these two visits form the basis of this report. The 1947 field work was undertaken as a Chicago Natural History Museum expedition. However, it also formed part of a larger program for the investigation of the Micronesian peoples. This larger program, sponsored by the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Council, and with the full support of the Navy Department, has been officially designated the Co-ordinated Investigation of Micronesian Anthropology (CIMA). The Museum's work in the Marshalls owes its success to the splendid co-operation achieved under this larger program...
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DOI: 10.2307/211233 MAG: 2795765933 CorpusID: 128978115 OpenAlex: W2795765933
