'Univesiti Fakafonua 'a Tonga -
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Ko e Mo’oni, Ko e Totonu mo e Tau’ataina - Truth, Justice, Freedom



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Contention and dispute : aspects of law and social control in Melanesia / A.L. Epstein, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Canberra : Australian National University Press ; Portland, Or. : International Scholarly Book Services, 1974.Description: 354 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0708101909
  • 9780708101902
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340/.0993
Contents:
Private sanctions and public ideology: some aspects of self-help in Kalauna, Goodenough Island / M.W. Young -- The range of traditional Tolai remedies / P.G. Sack -- Moots on Matupit / A.L. Epstein -- The Kaliai Lupunga: disputing in the public forum / D. and D. Counts -- Disputing in two West New Britain societies: similarities and differences / A. Chowning -- Changing conventions of dispute settlement in the Minj area / M. Reay -- When dispute procedures fail / A. Strathern -- Managing information: the problems of a dispute-settler (Mount Hagen) / M. Strathern -- Social control and the tambaran in the Sepik / D. Tuzin.
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Texts - cam Texts - cam TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection PAC 304.09932 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan FEAH25030969

Papers presented to a seminar at the Australian National University in Sept., 1968.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.

Private sanctions and public ideology: some aspects of self-help in Kalauna, Goodenough Island / M.W. Young -- The range of traditional Tolai remedies / P.G. Sack -- Moots on Matupit / A.L. Epstein -- The Kaliai Lupunga: disputing in the public forum / D. and D. Counts -- Disputing in two West New Britain societies: similarities and differences / A. Chowning -- Changing conventions of dispute settlement in the Minj area / M. Reay -- When dispute procedures fail / A. Strathern -- Managing information: the problems of a dispute-settler (Mount Hagen) / M. Strathern -- Social control and the tambaran in the Sepik / D. Tuzin.

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