Social change in Tikopia : re-study of a Polynesian community after a generation
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Social change in Tikopia : re-study of a Polynesian community after a generation
（Routledge library editions, . Anthropology and ethnography ; 39 . Raymond Firth : collected works ; 4）
Routledge, 2004, c1959
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1959
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Re-visiting Tikopia a decade after his first visit, Raymond Firth here examines what impact the forces of modernization had on Tikopia society with regard to economics, law, politics and social affairs. Suffering a famine whilst there, the author also examined the issues of responsibility for the famine; problems of distribution in ceremonial and ritual; institutional developments from the famine.
Originally published in 1959.
Table of Contents
1. Tikopia Re-Studied 2. On the Threshold of Modernity 3. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects 4. Tikopia Society in Famine 5. Economic Resources and Influence of the External Market 6. Changes in Rights Over Land 7. Indices of Social Movement: Patterns of Residence and of Marriage 8. Changes in Descent Groups 9. Changes in the Political System 10. Modifications in Social Control 11. Processes in Social Change
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