Main Title |
Cultures of the Pacific : selected readings / |
Author |
Harding, Thomas G. ;
Wallace, Ben J.
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Publisher |
Free Press |
Year Published |
1970 |
OCLC Number |
00070491 |
ISBN |
0029138108; 9780029138106; 0029138000; 9780029138007 |
Subjects |
Ethnology--Oceania ;
Etnografie ;
Antropologia Cult Social ;
Grupos Etnicos (Em Geral) ;
Indigenous peoples - Pacific ;
Social organisation - Relationships ;
Social organisation - Kinship ;
Religion - Dreaming ;
Trade and exchange ;
Technology - Stone - Axes / hatchets ;
Yir Yoront people (Y72) (Qld SD54-15) ;
Pacific Islands ;
Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
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Additional Subjects |
Ethnology--Oceanica--Addresses, essays, lectures
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ERAM |
GN662.H3 1970 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
01/01/1988 |
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Collation |
xv, 496 pages 24 cm |
Notes |
Cover title. Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents Notes |
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. |
Place Published |
New York, |
PUB Date Free Form |
{1970} |
Document Type |
BC |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/U |
LCCN |
70091883 |
Merged OCLC records |
1080787342 |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |