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Elota's Story: The Life & Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man more books like this

by Roger M Keesing, 'Elota

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Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

Keesing studies how the Kwaio have held on to their traditional ways despite 125 years of European colonialism and a militantly Christian national culture.

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Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective

Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

This text presents a synthesis of social and cultural anthropology. Roger Keesing was concerned with the political and ethical implications of anthropological fieldwork and sensitive to the global conditions of inequality caused by the spread of capitalist relations of production. In this revision, Dr Andrew Strathern has preserved Keesing's ...

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Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

"Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ...

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Kin Groups & Social Structure more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

This text examines the evolution of kinship and social structure. Keesing considers the importance of patrilineal descent and the permutations of descent systems, matrilineal and double descent, alliance systems, cognate descent and bilateral kinship as organizing principles. Relevant analogies and examples are used throughout.

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Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.

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New perspectives in cultural anthropology more books like this

by Roger M. Keesing, Felix Maxwell Keesing

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Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea more books like this

by Roger M Keesing (Editor), Gilbert H Herdt (Editor)

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Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

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Lightning Meets the West Wint more books like this

by Roger M. Keesing

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Explorations in Role Analysis more books like this

by Roger M Keesing

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