Title: Social change in Tikopia : re-study of a Polynesian community after a generation /
Authors: Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin,
Year: 1959
Subjects: Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) Social conditions.; Acculturation Solomon Islands Tikopia.; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) Economic conditions.; Tikopia (volk)
Contents: Tikopia re-studied -- On the threshold of modernity -- Critical pressures on food supply and their economic effects -- Tikopia society in famine -- Economic resources and influence of the expernal market -- Changes in rights over land -- Indices of social movement: patterns of residence and of marriage -- Changes in descent groups -- Changes in the political system -- Modifications in social control -- Processes in social change.