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Title:

Adaptation and symbolism : essays on social organization : presented to Sir Raymond Firth by his students in the United States and Canada, 1968-1974 / edited by Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and S. Lee Seaton.

Publisher:

Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii,

Copyright Date:

c1978

Description:

xix, 228 p. : port. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Firth, Raymond William,--1901- ,--Addresses, essays, lectures.
Ethnology--Addresses, essays, lectures.
Social Structure--Addresses, essays, lectures.

Other Authors:

Firth, Raymond William, 1901-
Seaton, S. Lee, 1943-
Watson-Gegeo, Karen Ann, 1942-

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents:

Watson-Gegeo, K. A. Introduction.--Feinberg, R. Rank and authority on Anuta Island.--Ryan, D. Cliques, factions, and leadership among the Toaripi of Papua.--Peoples, J. G. From cargo to politics: the transformation of the Yali cult.--Boggs, S. T. From the mouths of babes: reflections of social structure in the verbal interaction of part-Hawaiian children.--Wu, D. Y.-H. The Chinese in New Guinea.--Prattis, J. I. Competing paradigms and false polemics in economic anthropology.--Cove, J. J. Ecology, structuralism, and fishing taboos.--Attinasi, J. J. Structural analysis of Chol Mayan pronouns.--Seaton, S. L. and Watson-Gegeo, K. A. Meta-anthropology.

ISBN:

9780824805593
0824805593

LCCN:

78003815

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)