Truk



ETHNONYM: Aramasen Chuuk

Settlements

Truk was divided into small districts, each consisting of a small island or a wedge-shaped segment of a larger one. Not clustered into villages, households were scattered on rising land back from the shore. With population growth many of the once looser neighborhoods have become more densely settled villages. Landholdings were scattered.

See also Nomoi , Pohnpei , Ulithi , Woleai , Yap

Bibliography

Bollig, P. Laurentius (1927). Die Bewohner der Truk Inseln. Anthropos ethnologische Bibliothek 3, no. 1. Münster i.W.: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Gladwin, Thomas, and Seymour B. Sarason (1953). Truk: Man in Paradise. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, no. 20. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Goodenough, Ward H. (1978). Property, Kin, and Community on Truk. 2nd ed. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books.

Käser, Lothar (1977). "Der Begriff Seele bei den Insulanern von Truk." Ph.D. dissertation, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br.

Krämer, Augustin (1932). "Truk." In Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910, edited by Georg Thilenius. II. Ethnographie; B., Mikronesien, vol. 5. Hamburg: Friedrichsen, De Gruyter.

LeBar, Frank M. (1964). The Material Culture of Truk. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, no. 68. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.

Parker, Patricia L. (1985). Land Law in Trukese Society: 1850-1980. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.

WARD H. GOODENOUGH

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