THE LOCATION AND STRUCTURE OF NUAULU VILLAGES

The location of residential areas concerns the relationship between productive resources and units of consumption. In view of this, the ideal settlement layout should involve a minimization ofthe distance between the totality of all residences and the totality of all resources. In practice the degre...

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1. Verfasser:	ROY F. ELLEN
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adopted children Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied arts Architecture Arts Behavioral sciences Buildings Clans Cultural anthropology Cultural customs Elopement Families Family members Households Houses Human geography Human settlements Human societies Kinship Marriage Metropolitan areas Political geography Practical theology Religion Religious practices Religious rituals Residential buildings Rituals Settlement geography Settlement patterns Social institutions Social sciences Social structures Sociology Theology Villages
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Zusammenfassung:	The location of residential areas concerns the relationship between productive resources and units of consumption. In view of this, the ideal settlement layout should involve a minimization ofthe distance between the totality of all residences and the totality of all resources. In practice the degree to which this can be achieved is limited since resources are generally scattered and communities split up into discrete residential units, typically households. The spatial deployment of these units is very heavily dependent on political and other sociological factors. In the Nuaulu case the minimal residential unit is the household (numa) and the basic localized