Cultures of the Pacific : selected readings /
Cultures of the Pacific : selected readings /
edited and with introductions by Thomas G. Harding and Ben J. Wallace.
- xv, 496 pages ; 24 cm
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references.
Island cultures / Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. Rappaport -- Polynesian navigation to distant islands / Andrew Sharp -- Austronesian linguistics and culture history / George W. Grace -- The Kon-Tiki myth / Robert C. Suggs -- Origins of the Melanesians / Mary Elizabeth Shutler and Richard Shutler, Jr. -- The primitive economics of the Trobriand Islanders / Bronislaw Malinowki -- Agricultural technology of the Pagan Gaddang / Ben J. Wallace -- Production, distribution, and power in a primitive society / Marshall D. Sahlins -- Ponapean prestige economy / William R. Bascom -- Trading in Northeast New Guinea / Thomas G. Harding -- In primitive Polynesia / Raymond Firth -- Male-female relationships in the highlands of Australian New Guinea / M.J. Megitt -- Sociocentric relationships terms and the Australian class system / Elman R. Service -- Social organization of a Siassi Island community / Michael P. Freedman -- The Iban of Western Borneo / Derek Freeman. Poor man, rich man, big-man, chief: political types in Melanesia and Polynesia / Marshall D. Sahlins -- A leader in action / Douglas L. Oliver -- Political organization, supernatural sanctions, and the punishment for incest on Yap / David M. Schneider -- Law and politics on Nonouti Island / Henry P. Lundsgaarde -- Daughter of time / Peter Lawrence -- The Ngaing of the Rai coast / Peter Lawrence -- The dreaming / W.E.H. Stanner -- The analysis of Mana: an empirical approach / Raymond Firth -- Social status, political power, and native responses to European influence in Oceania / Charles A. Valentine -- Steel axes for stone-age Australians / Lauriston Sharp -- The Millenarian aspect of conversion to Christianity in the South Pacific / Jean Guiart -- Port town and hinterland in the Pacific Islands / Alexander Spoehr -- The rights of primitive peoples / Margaret Mead.
0029138108 9780029138106 0029138000 9780029138007
70091883
Ethnology--Oceania.
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references.
Island cultures / Andrew P. Vayda and Roy A. Rappaport -- Polynesian navigation to distant islands / Andrew Sharp -- Austronesian linguistics and culture history / George W. Grace -- The Kon-Tiki myth / Robert C. Suggs -- Origins of the Melanesians / Mary Elizabeth Shutler and Richard Shutler, Jr. -- The primitive economics of the Trobriand Islanders / Bronislaw Malinowki -- Agricultural technology of the Pagan Gaddang / Ben J. Wallace -- Production, distribution, and power in a primitive society / Marshall D. Sahlins -- Ponapean prestige economy / William R. Bascom -- Trading in Northeast New Guinea / Thomas G. Harding -- In primitive Polynesia / Raymond Firth -- Male-female relationships in the highlands of Australian New Guinea / M.J. Megitt -- Sociocentric relationships terms and the Australian class system / Elman R. Service -- Social organization of a Siassi Island community / Michael P. Freedman -- The Iban of Western Borneo / Derek Freeman. Poor man, rich man, big-man, chief: political types in Melanesia and Polynesia / Marshall D. Sahlins -- A leader in action / Douglas L. Oliver -- Political organization, supernatural sanctions, and the punishment for incest on Yap / David M. Schneider -- Law and politics on Nonouti Island / Henry P. Lundsgaarde -- Daughter of time / Peter Lawrence -- The Ngaing of the Rai coast / Peter Lawrence -- The dreaming / W.E.H. Stanner -- The analysis of Mana: an empirical approach / Raymond Firth -- Social status, political power, and native responses to European influence in Oceania / Charles A. Valentine -- Steel axes for stone-age Australians / Lauriston Sharp -- The Millenarian aspect of conversion to Christianity in the South Pacific / Jean Guiart -- Port town and hinterland in the Pacific Islands / Alexander Spoehr -- The rights of primitive peoples / Margaret Mead.
0029138108 9780029138106 0029138000 9780029138007
70091883
Ethnology--Oceania.