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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, chef: political types in Melanesia a nd 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. Essays about Indigenous Australian culture are: Sociocentric relationship terms and the Australian class system by Elman R. Service p. 144; The Dreaming by W.E.H. Stanner p. 304; Steel axes for stone-age Australians by Lauriston Sharp p. 385.