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Ponapean matriliny: production, exchange, and the ties that bind
Author(s) -
PETERSEN GLENN
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1982.9.1.02a00080
Subject(s) - subsistence agriculture , division of labour , residence , production (economics) , subsistence economy , interpersonal ties , economics , economic geography , labour economics , sociology , demographic economics , economy , geography , market economy , social science , archaeology , microeconomics , agriculture
Matriliny is commonly associated in ethnological theory with matrilocality and female subsistence tasks and is assumed to break down when changes occur in residence, land tenure, and the division of labor. Examination of Ponapean matriliny, which has apparently depended upon neither matrilocality nor female subsistence production, suggests that, alternatively, matrilineal organization plays an especially effective role in forging social and exchange ties and does not necessarily disintegrate under pressure from such changes, [matriliny, exchange, division of labor, Micronesia]