TY  - BOOK
AU  - Firth,Raymond
TI  - We, the Tikopia: a sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia 
T2  - Beacon paperback, BP 164
SN  - 0807046957
U1  - 306.8309961 
PY  - 1963///, ©1957
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Tikopia (Solomon Islands people)
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Solomon Islands
N1  - Originally published: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., ©1957; Includes bibliographical references and index; In primitive Polynesia -- Adjustment to civilization -- Village life -- Household and family -- Personal relations in the family circle -- The kin of father and mother -- Language of kinship -- Cooperation and constraint in marriage relationships -- "House" and clan -- Principles of land tenure -- A modern population problem -- Firing the ovens of youth -- Marriage by capture -- Kinship and social stability
N2  - This comprehensive treatment of a tribal society was written after a year of field work on the small Pacific island of Tikopia in the 1920s, at a time when these Polynesian people were almost untouched by Western civilization. The religious, familial, political, economic, and cultural features of Tikopian tribal organization are covered in detail--Publisher's description
ER  -