Ifaluk
Ifaluk Canoe Building Fosters International Friendship
Three canoe-builders from Ifaluk Island, in the State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, are teaching canoe-building skills and helping forge an international community in the process. The Honolulu Advertiser reported on August 21 that three people from Ifaluk (or Ifalik as it is called in the story) have joined five others from New Zealand […]
Ifaluk Food Sharing Best Described as Mutualism [journal article review]
Anthropologist Richard Sosis makes several interesting points about fish-sharing and punishment practices on Ifaluk Island in a recent, brief, article. His work appears as one of 13 rejoinders to a very thorough examination of the ethnographic literature of food sharing patterns by Michael Gurven in the journal Behavioral and Brain Research. Gurven, in the main […]
Peaceful Societies Survive Tsunami
The deadly tsunami two weeks ago in the Indian Ocean has awakened many to the plight of people who live in low-lying coastal areas and on small islands. On January 6, world leaders announced their intention to support the development of a tsunami early warning system for the Indian Ocean to match the system in […]
