house affiliation systems in Belau

Abstract

Intravillage and multivillage systems of house affiliation in Belau, Micronesia, are analyzed diachronically in terms of the relationship between the constitution of social groups and the linguistic labeling of those groups. Social changes concerning land tenure and residence introduced during German and Japanese colonial periods disrupted the intravillage house affiliation system; these same changes prompted the rejuvenation, in the contemporary period, of multivillage house affiliation networks based traditionally on migration traditions. Data from ethnohistorical traditions, customary exchange, and title inheritance suggest that the coherence of Belau social organization is maintained by continuities in the relationships among terms referring to social groups. [social organization, lineage, Belau, Micronesia, social change]

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