Adaptation and symbolism
Subtitle: essays on social organization : presented to Sir Raymond Firth by his students in the United States and Canada, 1968-1974
By: edited by Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and S. Lee Seaton.
Contributors: Firth, Raymond William, 1901-; Watson-Gegeo, Karen Ann, 1942-; Seaton, S. Lee, 1943-
Publisher: Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii
Published: 1978
Place of publication: [Honolulu]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Firth, Raymond William, 1901-; Social structure; Ethnology; Symbolic anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Watson-Gegeo, K. A. Introduction.; title: Feinberg, R. Rank and authority on Anuta Island.; title: Ryan, D. Cliques, factions, and leadership among the Toaripi of Papua.; title: Peoples, J. G. From cargo to politics: the transformation of the Yali cult.; title: Boggs, S. T. From the mouths of babes: reflections of social structure in the verbal interaction of part-Hawaiian children.; title: Wu, D. Y.-H. The Chinese in New Guinea.; title: Prattis, J. I. Competing paradigms and false polemics in economic anthropology.; title: Cove, J. J. Ecology, structuralism, and fishing taboos.; title: Attinasi, J. J. Structural analysis of Chol Mayan pronouns.; title: Seaton, S. L. and Watson-Gegeo, K. A. Meta-anthropology.