ミクロネシア諸島民における母系制社会の解体過程
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the disorganization process of the matrilineal society in Micronesiens (excepting the Gilberts and the Polinesian autliners). This study is worked through the several monographs about Marshalls, Truk, Ponape, Yap and Palaw islands. 1). Matrilineal descent itself is fullfleged everywhere in Micronesia; espesially in Truk and the neighboring subareas social organizations apper to be characterized by typical matrilineal and matrilocal system, which once have prevailed throughout Micronesia. But in many places original matrilineal-matrilocal system has for some times been disintegrating. As the residential rules are concerned; in Marshalls patrilocal residence is at least as common as matrilocal one, in Ponape we can see the level of the transformation process from matrilocal to patrilocal residence, in both Yap and Palaw patrilocal residence is general. As the inheritance rules are concerned; In Truk where the inheritance of property is done along with matrilineal line as a rule, although the legitimacy of certain patrilineal transmision has also been recognized even under the aboriginal condtions. In Marshalls the majority of land holdings belong to the category of ancestral land holdings of the maternal lineage. but there may appear some mechanisms in which a father in this matrilineal society may devide special land parcels for his children. In both Ponape and Palaw the inheritance of land is on the wav to gradual change from marilineal to patrilineal. In Yap patrilineal inheritance is more general. From the above mentioned summaries we can point out that the rules of residence and inheritance are the most changeable aspects in matrilineal system, consequently, the changes of the both rules give absolutely necessary prepositions in the development from matrisystem to patrisystem.
- 日本文化人類学会の論文
- 1969-06-30