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Description	Yam (kehp) is the pride of men on Pohnpei Island, Micronesia. Men put more labor to prestigious goods for feasts, especially yams, pigs, and sakau (kava), among which yams have the highest value to attain social status than other daily food crops. In addition to hereditary quality, achievements, especially contributions during the feasts, are an important factor for a man to gain prestige and higher hierarchical chiefly titles in Pohnpeian society. Women bringing food baskets. Around noon, women bring their contribution of food baskets to the main platform in the community assembly house. After having the contributions blessed in a Christian manner, they are redistributed among participants with respect to social ranking; chiefly titles are called out loudly. This way of redistribution called pwekipwek, which is also done to other foods of prestige such as yams and pigs, actualizes and visualizes the honor of the recipients.
Manage No	VI00000494	Running Time	45''
Country	Federated States of Micronesia
ICH Domain	Oral traditions and representations, Performing Arts, Social practices, rituals, festive events
Videos Photographer	Takuya Nagaoka	Year	2015
Place	Pohnpei	File Size	N/A
Definition	N/A	File Format	N/A
Copyright	Takuya Nagaoka, ICHCAP

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