Saipan, the ethnology of a war-devastated island.

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Published: [Chicago] Chicago Natural History Museum, 1954.
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Series:Chicago Natural History Museum. Publication ; 728.
Fieldiana. Anthropology. v. 41.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • I. Introduction
  • The Mariana Islands
  • Saipan
  • The People of Saipan
  • PART I-HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF CONTEMPORARY SAIPAN
  • II. Discovery
  • III. Conquest
  • IV. The Formation of a Hispanicized Chamorro Culture
  • V. Resettlement of Saipan
  • VI. German Colony
  • VII. Japanese Mandate
  • VIII. Holocaust
  • PART II-POST-WAR SAIPAN
  • IX. The Total Community
  • X. Local Organization
  • XI. Basic Aspects of the Economy
  • XII. Political Organization
  • XIII. Religion
  • XIV. Change, Stability, and the Dependent Society PART III-CHAMORRO FAMILY AND KINSHIP
  • XV. Social Significance of the Chamorro Family
  • XVI. The Household
  • XVII. System of Kinship Terminology
  • XVIII. Formation, Functioning, and Dissolution of the Family
  • XIX. Kinship Range and Family Status
  • XX. Family and Church
  • XXI. Conclusion
  • PART IV-THE SAIPAN CAROLINIANS
  • XXII. The Carolinian Community
  • XXIII. Matrilineal Kin Groups
  • XXIV. The Household
  • XXV. Kinship System
  • XXVI. Carolinian Land Tenure
  • XXVII. Changing Patterns of Kinship
  • Appendix: Population of Saipan (1950)
  • Bibliography