1. After the defeat of the Japanese in World War II, doctors aboard the U.S. Navy ship, conducted a healthy survey of the Island and found that islanders had consistently low blood pressure with no rise as people grew older it is the reason why John Cassel and the School of Public health had selected Pohnpei.
2. The three challenges the anthropologists have to faces while conducting fieldwork in Pohnpei are culture shock, learning a new language, and explain words that Pohnpein people don’t have.
3. Pohnpei used three different types of language common, respectful, and honorific. The latter two levels are called “high language.” In high language ordinary actions- eat, speak, love, hate, die, come, go , sleep, think, weep, wash, and whisper- …show more content…
A young girl named Maria began exhibiting the habits of a boy as she grew into her teens, she went walking about at nigh looking for girls. The activity was acceptable, but that a girl was doing it caused consternation. Family and neighbors held a meeting to discuss the problem; they brought it up with Maria. Then they held a feast and declared for all to hear that Maria was henceforth a boy named Mario. They cut his hair and presented the new male with appropriate clothing.
9. One example of the cultural relativism is when the author’s conservations with a women working in the open cooking houses. The women ask a lot of questions such as why they don’t have children. Who is watching their pigs while they are gone? She is childless, and they sympathy her because she is pig less and landless, to them she is not a proper adult but she gave them a satisfactory answer. Answering them that her mother is watching the pigs when she is gone.
10. Pohnpeian society is ordered by consideration of rank and status, which derive from clan membership and form individual merit. The traditional between noble and commoner has been softened. Education, employment, travel, and material wealth have become increasingly important determinants for modern
2. The three challenges the anthropologists have to faces while conducting fieldwork in Pohnpei are culture shock, learning a new language, and explain words that Pohnpein people don’t have.
3. Pohnpei used three different types of language common, respectful, and honorific. The latter two levels are called “high language.” In high language ordinary actions- eat, speak, love, hate, die, come, go , sleep, think, weep, wash, and whisper- …show more content…
A young girl named Maria began exhibiting the habits of a boy as she grew into her teens, she went walking about at nigh looking for girls. The activity was acceptable, but that a girl was doing it caused consternation. Family and neighbors held a meeting to discuss the problem; they brought it up with Maria. Then they held a feast and declared for all to hear that Maria was henceforth a boy named Mario. They cut his hair and presented the new male with appropriate clothing.
9. One example of the cultural relativism is when the author’s conservations with a women working in the open cooking houses. The women ask a lot of questions such as why they don’t have children. Who is watching their pigs while they are gone? She is childless, and they sympathy her because she is pig less and landless, to them she is not a proper adult but she gave them a satisfactory answer. Answering them that her mother is watching the pigs when she is gone.
10. Pohnpeian society is ordered by consideration of rank and status, which derive from clan membership and form individual merit. The traditional between noble and commoner has been softened. Education, employment, travel, and material wealth have become increasingly important determinants for modern