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Landscape of Peace

Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Kerstin J. S. Werle

    1. Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Study in the field of social sciences
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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Kerstin J. S. Werle
    Pages 1-15

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Washing Away Our Lavalava? Women, Tradition and Power on Lamotrek Atoll

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 19-20

    3. The Importance of the Lavalava on Lamotrek

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 21-27

    4. Gender Roles and Pictures of Ageing

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 28-32

    5. The Maternal Realm: likoa (baby girl) and saugaaw (baby boy)

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 33-38

    6. Beginning Before Life Starts: The Practice of Adoption on Lamotrek

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 39-42

    7. “You First Learn to Start the Fire”: Girls’ Chores on Lamotrek

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 43-47

    8. Moving Down, Becoming a Woman

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 48-52

    9. The Value of Women

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 53-57

    10. A Woman Reports

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 58-59

    11. The Value of Teor (Lavalava)

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 60-69

    12. Sovereign Shoabut Tugufaiy (Old Ladies)

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 70-75

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. The Place of Faith: A Lamotrekese Case of Landscaping

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 79-80

    3. Landscape as an Area of Unspoiled Nature

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 81-83

    4. Landscape as Cultivated Nature

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 84-88

    5. Lamotrek: Topography and Landscape

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 89-95

    6. Art, Science and Landscape

      • Kerstin J. S. Werle
      Pages 96-99
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About this book

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 techniques prevail. Kerstin Werle carried out her research according to classical anthropological methods, supplementing the available specialist literature on the widespread Micronesian atolls with a valuable overview. Her book shows how the ideal of an old and wise woman, contained in the cultural symbol lavalava, is faced with a young society. Due to the extremely limited space on the small atolls, individual plots of land have become historically, culturally and emotionally significant places, all of which have been ascribed their own individual character. With the help of these personalized places, people on Lamotrek pursue local politics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Heidelberg, Germany

    Kerstin J. S. Werle

About the author

Kerstin Werle has studied sociology and cultural anthropology with a focus on India and Micronesia. Currently, she is living in Breisach and working as a freelance writer.

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