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Honor and Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Author(s) -
Keating Elizabeth
Publication year - 1998
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.1998.25.3.399
Subject(s) - honor , social stratification , sociology , embodied cognition , micronesian , anthropology , social science , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , operating system
This article is an investigation of honor in a Micronesian society, particularly as it is constructed in language. I argue that honor is a set of practices through which people organize positive embodied attitudes about social hierarchy, according particularly high value to acts of self‐depletion. A different notion of the self in the Pacific has implications for ideas about the universality of a personal notion of honor and suggests that the common element in Pohnpeian honor and that described for other societies is the link between honor and inequality or stratification, [honor, honorifics, Pohnpei, Pacific Islands, social stratification, language and culture]