ABSTRACT
Social organization is based on households derived from divisions of the six ‘founding households’, as mentioned before. The member of the family who stayed at home, in general the eldest daughter,1 inherited the fields and the house, and was duty-bound to give a home to her younger brothers and sisters and their spouses. When the children became adults, the couples, by a normal process of segmentation in a non-unilinear descent group, separated. The plots of land were then shared out. But the brother or sister who, at the time of their marriage, had left the household to ‘move in’ with their spouse did not receive anything, even if they had worked on this land since adolescence. Nevertheless, from the 1930s onwards, a tendency towards virilocal residence developed. We witness a bilateral kindred, as in the ritual practices dedicated to ancestors, cognatic descent (ambilateral) and GenerationHawaiian kinship terminology.
