Landscape of Peace Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia /

• Main Author: Werle, Kerstin J. S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Social groups.; Family.; Youth.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging.

Kerstin Werle’s work is based upon a year of fieldwork on Lamotrek and Yap, belonging to a group of islands with a matrilineal culture. Although a trend to the lifestyle of the Western world can be found everywhere on the islands, traditional customs, a gendered division of labour, and subsistence t...

Table of Contents:

• Women's Power, Gender Roles and Pictures of Ageing
• The Anthropology of Landscape in Fieldwork Settings
• Emotions as Expressions of Cultural Norms
• Culture as a Process of Collective Localisation.