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1024 A men"can Anthropologist [57, 1955]

MINER) HORACE 1953 The primitive city of Timbuctoo. Princeton. Avunculocal Residence on Losap MOLLIEN,G. 1820 Travels in the interior of Mrica to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia, ed. T. E. J. L. FISCHER Bowdich. London. Excerpts provided by D. P. Gamble. Harvard University Moon,:, FRANCIS 1738 Travels into the inland parts of Mrica. London. HE purpose of this paper is to report a contemporary instance of avuncu­ P AlUC, MUNGO T local residence in Micronesia, on the island of Losap, Truk. District, and 1799 Travels in the interior districts of Africa. Reissued in Everyman's Library (1907). to discuss possible reasons for the presence of this trait on Losap, surrounded SAUGNIER, M. 1791 Relations de plusieurs voyages a la c6te d'Afrique, a Maroc, au Senegal, a Goree, a as it is by matrilocal societies to the north and south. Galam, etc. Paris. Losap Atoll is located about fifty miles southeast of Truk Lagoou iu the SELEcr COM1lollTTEE ON WEST COAST OF AFRICA east central Caroline Islands. The nearest land is the single coral island of 1842 Quotation provided by D. P. Gamble. Nama, about twelve miles to the northeast. Both Losap and Nama lie along THlLENIUS,G. a route between Mortlock (also known as or Nomoi) Islands, 1920 Primitives Geld. Archiv fur AnthropoJogie, n.s. 18:1-33. Truk and the Ku a group of atolls roughly 100 to 150 miles southeast of Truk. TauRNwALD, RICHARD 1932 Economics in primitive communities. London. Culturally, too, Losap is in many ways intermediate between Truk and the WYNDHAM,H. A. Mortlocks. At the same time, it possesses a number of special cultural charac­ 1935 The Atlantic and slavery. London. teristics not found in the adjoining islands. The local dialect, for instance, re­ tains an initial k in certain words which has been lost in both Trukese and Mortlockese (e.g., the first person plural exclusive absolute pronoun is ij,iim in Trukese, iimem in Mortlockese, and kitmem in the Losap dialect). The Losap people claim that in aboriginal times the chiefs of Losap Island held dominion over the inhabitants of Pis Island, at the other end of the lagoon, and over the nearby island of Nama as well. Foreigners have tended to assume that all three communities were closely related culturally, because of the geographical proxiniity and perhaps also because of the political rela­ tionship. However, the natives themselves claim that the people of Nama are more closely related to those of Kutu in the Mortlocks than to those of nearby Losap. They explain that in prehistoric times a typhoon nearly annihilated the true inhabitants of Nama, who were then related to the Losap people, and that settlers from Kutu repopulated the island. The speech and social organi­ zation of the Nama people, as far as I am familiar with them, are distinct from those of Losap and thus bear out this story, as does the fact that the Nama and Kntu people even today exchange gifts and visit back. and forth with special frequency. One would expect that any typhoon devastating Nama would do considerable damage to Losap, but Losap proper is especially well protected from storms from any direction, as coral islands go, since it is on the inner side of a particularly broad stretch of atoll reef and has another island between it and the sea side. One would expect, therefore, that the Losap popu­ lation would survive a typhoon with considerably fewer casualties. Pis Island, the other inhabited island in Losap Lagoon, is culturally similar to Losap. Although it is now officially a separate municipality under the Ameri­ can administration of the Trust Territory, the people and officials have con­ tinued to look for leadership to the island of Losapproper. It is no doubt significant that the name "Pis" is a term widely applied throughout the Greater Truk area to small or uninhabited satellite islands. 1025 1026 American Anthropologlist [57, 1955 FISCHERl Avunculocal Residence on Losap 1027 One of the most striking of the unique characteristics of Losap society is riage, age varying considerably for the individual, he is likely to move to his the pattern of avunculocal residence, the subject of this paper. In 1950 I had 's 's house and bring his to live there when he marries. occasion to make an extensive. survey of marital residence on all the rnajor Since the entire population lives in a concentrated village On the small island groups of Greater Truk (TInk proper, the Halls, Namonuito, Puluwat islet of Losap proper, the move of a to his mother's brother's house is not and nearby islands, the Mortlocks, and Losap and Nama).l This survey such a sharp break for a boy. He can easily visit his when he is not .showed that avunculocal residence is practically nonexistent elsewhere in working. Truk District, while on Losap it is the dominant form. A census showed that Concentrated villages are now found on nearly every island in Truk Dis­ on Losap 53 couples were living in avunculocal residence, 22 matrilocal, 16 trict, but most of them were established within the memory of living people patrilocal, 2 neolocal, and' 1 unknown to the informants. The contrast with following the insistence of foreign administrators. It appears that over most of the nearby island of Nama is especially striking, for Nama proved to be the the district each matrilocal extended originally tended to have its own most strongly matrilocal island in the whole district (113 matrilocal, 3 patri­ establishment On lineage land, somewhat removed from other . But local, 1 neolocal, and 1 unknown to informant). on Losap the village pattern was reportedly indigenou,s. The very names of The survey of residence on Losap was conducted by asking several natives the islets suggest this. The large, uninhabited island is named Lee-wiil (Laol of the island, visiting Truk, to tell me who was living in each house on the on charts), literally, l'In-(the)-Forest,H while Losap, the name of the small island as of the date they had left, what were the relationships of each adult, inhabited island, appears to mean l'At-(the)-Inhabited-Place" (native pro­ and who owned the land on which the house was located. The different in­ nunciation Loo-sopw, presumably from Lee-sopw). This contrast between resi­ formants were in substantial agreement where they gave duplicate informa­ dential and agricultural areas is not absolute, however. The houses have grounds tion, although they did not all know the same people. Avunculocal residence, which are usually large enough to have significant agricultural value, espe­ the dominant pattern numerically, was said to be preferred. After ascertaining cially in view of the dense population of the atoll (estimated over 1,500 per the pattern of avunculocal residence, I then went back over the data and square mile). Mention has already been made of the frequency of alternative asked the informants to comment on the exceptional cases, and also questioned matrilocal and patrilocal modes of residence. Discussion of specific cases with them on the ideal life-cycle.2 informants revealed that these alternatives are very important in solving The social structure of Losap is in many ways similar to that of the island problems which would arise from attempting to follow the ideal pattern of of Romonum in Truk Lagoon, as has been presented by Goodenough in his avunculocal residence and male matrilineal of land. recent monograph (1951). There are largely the same matrilineal sibs on Losap One condition under which becomes preferable is found elsewhere in Truk District. Subdivisions of these of varying degrees of when all the surviving young adult members of a lineage are female. Normally integration are found. Most of the land is held by corporate matrilineages, al­ these women and their children would be supported from the lineage land by though, as in Truk, if a man is the last member of his lineage, his children will the women's . Only the men are felt capable of doing the bulk of the inherit his land in preference to distant sibmateS (just how distant is a matter agricultural work on this island, including that connected with both bread­ of dispute). fruit and taro, the two principal foods. Moreover, only men are felt capable of Informants said that a close co-operation was maintained between brother pounding poi from these foods. (This, incidentally, is in contrast to the Mort­ and sister. Most of the food for a and her children is supplied ideally locks, where WOmen pound poi on everyday occasions and help raise taro.) by her brother, even though this man lives in another house. This is not too The women, looking to the future, know that their will be able to support difficult for a woman's brother since nearly all the people of the Losap com­ them from this land when those sons become of age. The SOns will also need munity proper live on a single small islet, a couple of minutes walk away from the land for themselves and their sisters, so the women are reluctant to call any other at the most. A woman's , of course, is ideally on the help of distant sibmates or other relatives who might be hard to evict occupied feeding his sister and his sister's children. Judging from informants',: later when their own children Or nephews needed the land. In these circum­ statements, this ideal pattern is followed where a group of relatives finds, given .­ stances young women and their guardians encourage matrilocal residence in the numbers of individuals in the various kin positions, that their property order to bring in men to work the family land, until the women bear new male can be effectively exploited within the pattern, although, for reasons to be dis_,c;' heirs. cussed below and as suggested by the high frequency of alternate modes of Just as women who have too few brothers or male lineage mates wish to residence, there are many exceptions in practice. remain on their own land and bring in their to work it, so in a lineage As a boy grows older and becomes capable of performing useful work, the'Q" with too many males men aware of the shortage of lineage land are inspired claims of his lineage On his labor increase, and the boy's mother's brother:: to look for land from other sources, land of their ' lineages for one. This exercises increasing authority over him. Sometime -between puberty and mar,;.,' again may result in matrilocal residence. 1028 American Anthropologist [57, 1955 FISCHER] A 'lJunculocal Residence on Losap 1029 Under what conditions are couples likely to reside patrilocally? Informants inheritance is not clearly formulated on Losap, but in practice it tends to be say that some like their sons to stay with them for reasons of personal narrow. One of the great causes of land disputes coming to my attention was affection and also to take care of them in their old age. As long as the 's just this question: if a man has no matrilineal heirs in his immediate lineage, lineage land is not too crowded, the other members of the lineage will not how distant must other matrilineal kinsmen be before the man can ignore press for the expulsion of the while the father is still alive, although a man them and turn the land over to his own children? Some of the "have-nots" would be expected to leave his father's matrilineage land after his father's give the answer: any sibmate living on Losap or its tributary island of Pis death. Moreover, if the father is the last male of his lineage--if he has no at the other end of the lagoon should be eligible to inherit the land. But the sister's sons to care for him and exploit the lineage property-he will want to "haves" in these circumstances tend to want their own children to succeed to have his own sons stay in his household and help him with the work on the the lineage land on their death, even though while alive they might let remote land. Patrilineal inheritance is automatic if there are no close matrilineal heirs. sibmates make copra on the land or otherwise use it in exchange for a share A man would also find it easier to keep one of his sons if he or his wife's sisters of the products. had a large number of sons, more than his wife's brothers could easily employ The question arises as to why the people of Losap have avunculocal resi­ or support on their matrilineage land. dence, surrounded as they are by culturally related islands with matrilocal Thus a man from a crowded lineage may be motivated to use his father's residence. Several factors discussed below, as well as theoretical considera­ lineage land as well as his wife's lineage land. And, conversely, when a lineage tions, indicate that avunculocal residence on Losap has evolved locally from a lacks enough young men to work its land, the old men may seek manpower pattern of matrilocal residence originally shared with adjacent cultures. either by encouraging their sons and sons' wives to stay with them in patrilocal The existence of a rather concentrated village appears to be a facilitating residence or by encouraging their ' husbands to join the residence factor in this particular case. The closeness of residence gives a man a chance group. to maintain stronger relations with his sister and her children than on other The above discussion points out some inherent difficulties in an ideal nearby islands, even though on Losap, as on all the islands in Truk District, avunculocal social system. To work according to the ideal pattern, each genera­ a man and his sister normally live in separate . The Losap version tion must contain both males and females. A matrilocal will of avunculocal residence, where a man living on his matrilineage land pro­ cease if no females are born, but it can have several generations without male vides for his sister, who lives on her husband's matrilineage land, would be births. Likewise a patrilocal extended family can go on indefinitely without much more difficult in a scattered community, and a more dispersed residence female children. But if for even one generation an avunculocal extended family pattern seems to have been characteristic of other islands in the area. The lacks sisters for its men, it will become extinct in the next generation. If concentration also permits parents to retain strong ties with their children it lacks males, the matrilineage may continue but the avunculocal pattern can of both sexes, even though ideally children cease residence with their parents no longer be maintained. The probability that children of both sexes will be born at . (A woman generally goes to her own matrilineage land if her in a given generation increases with the number of children included in the hushand dies before she does. She may then be reunited with her adult sons.) family group. In a roughly stable population the number of children in the The concentration of population itself appears to be the result of an effort kin group would depend, on the average, on the initial size of the kin group, to take advantage of the previously mentioned peculiar conformation of the and-this on Losap appears to be fairly small. In any case, since the avunculocal atoll for protection from the occasional devastating typhoons. The low is­ residence pattern requires the birth of children of both sexes in a given genera­ landers in the Central Carolines are usually careful to pick the least exposed tion to be maintained, family groups in a culture idealizing avunculocal resi­ areas for dwelling sites, even though this usually means less sea breeze and dence are twice as likely to fail as those in cultures with matrilocal or patrilocal more mosquitoes. ideal patterns, where family continuity and stability is possible with the birth The geography of the tributary island of Pis does not especially favor a of children of only one sex in a given family. concentration of population, although here too the people live in a single vil­ Of course these difficulties of avunculocal residence revealed by logical lage, reputed to be aboriginal. But the oldest settlers on Pis with living de­ analysis do not in practice doom concrete residence groups encountering them scendants are said to have come from Losap. If so, we would expect them to to certain extinction. The Losap people cope with these situations principally bring the village pattern with them. There are traditions of typhoons missing by frankly permitting alternate modes of residence and inheritance. Another Losap proper while washing over Pis and killing most of its people, and even device, little used on Losap, would be to extend ties further, as to washing away completely an adjacent islet. The relative vulnerability of Pis remote sibmates or to paternal parallel , thus creating substitutes for to typhoons may be an important factor in explaining its subservience to the missing relatives. Losap proper. This vulnerability would certainly constitute a major economic The exact degree to which kinship is extended for purposes of land use and and military handicap from time to time. local 1030

prehistoric

above 1949:207). stronger raising, rather island wives' made parents."

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