Keesing, Roger M.

Custom and Confrontation. The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy.

Chicago/ London, University of Chicago Press, 1992. paperback, 254 pp.. ISBN: 0226429202

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Catalogue: Anthropology Oceania

Keywords: anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, tribespeople, tribes, cognitive linguistics, colonialism, indigenous peoples, Solomon Islands, Melanesia 0226429202

Keesing, Roger

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy of a major ethnography of the Kwaio people of Malaita. Minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. From the personal library of Dan Jorgensen, noted Papua New Guinea scholar and major ethnographer of the Telefol peoples of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [range of black-and-white photographs], 2-254 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Kwaio people Roger Keesing Papuan hinterlands Australian involvement urban anthropology Frank Hurley mental illness public health ethnography ethnology New Guinea Papua New Guinea anthropology Melanesia ethnographic fieldwork

Keesing, Roger M.

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed seminal works and activism on a number of fronts for four decades. Sixteen black-and-white illustrations and photographs, maps. A few scattered penned tick-marks, strewn throughout, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [16], 2-254 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 358063

Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Kwaio culture Solomon Islands Roger M. Keesing Melanesia

KEESING, Roger M.

Custom and confrontation: the Kwaio struggle for cultural autonomy

University of Chicago Press, 1992. Used - Very Good. VG paperback . 1st edition. A tidy copy in tight binding Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_9334_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 0226429202

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KEESING, ROGER M.

Kin Groups and Social Structure

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1975. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xi 177pp paperback, ownership inscription to ffep, good. Good.

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Keywords: anthropology

Keesing, Roger M.

Kwaio Religion : The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society

New York, Columbia University Press, 1982. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xi,257 pp. PAPERBACK.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG.

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Keywords: Melanesian Anthropology, Solomon Islands, Kwaio Ethnography, Ethnology, Religion, Sociolohu, , ,

Keesing, Roger M.

Kwaio Religion: The Living and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society; 'Elota's Story: The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man

New York, , . First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The first title (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982) is as fine an ethnography of religion and social change in Melanesia as can be found, and the second title (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983). The author, Roger Keesing, son of Felix Keesing, long-time scholar of the Kwaio in the Solomon Islands. Both are sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copies, minor wear of covers and less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copies. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed seminal works and activism on a number of fronts for four decades. xi [2], 2-256 pp.; x [2], 2-130 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 358081

Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Roger M. Keesing Kwaio religion Solomon Islands Christianity Christian missions

Keesing, Roger M.

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1988). orig. cloth, dustwrapper. xii, 265 pp, 23x15cm,. Minor rubbing, VG.
¶ Contents: Introduction; Interlingual Contact in the Pacific to the Mid-19 th Century; The Sandalwood Period; The Labor Trade; The Tok Pisin Language;Oceanic Austronesian Languages; Substrate, Superstrate, & Universals; Structures & Sources of Pidgin Syntax; The Pidgin Pronominal System; Subject-Referencing Pronouns & the "Predicate Marker"; The Development of Solomons Pidgin; The Solomons Pidgin Pronominal System; Calquing: Pidgin & Solomons Languages; Conclusion.

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Book number: BOOKS008531I

Keywords: Melanesia, Pidgin English, Melanesian Pidgins, Anthropological, Oceanic Linguistics, Solomon Islands, Melanesia Ethnology, Austronesian, Papua New Guinea, Tok Pisin Language