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“The women, they know very, very much, especially about their relatives from other islands. Even if I have never seen them and they bow in front of me, oh, I know that this is my cousin or so and I have to respect her. I won’t tell bad words to her, and I will know that I have to stay away from her. This is a very important feature of our culture where the relationship between sisters and brothers is central”, says a man from Lamotrek (Field Notes 11/2007). Without the shoabut tugufaiy, the old ladies, who represent the “relationship conscience” on the island, the cultural identity of the Lamotrekese would lose a significant amount of its power.
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Werle, K. (2014). Sovereign Shoabut Tugufaiy (Old Ladies). In: Landscape of Peace. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05832-6_12
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