Author: Carrier, James G.; editor:
Title: History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1992). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. ix, 257 pp,, 23x15cm, Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, 10.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 7 papers. Includes: M. Jolly "Banana Leaf Bundles & Skirts: A Pacific Penelope's Web?"; N. Thomas "Substantivization & Anthropological Discourse: The Tranformation of Practices into Institutions in Neotraditional Pacific Societies"; B. Douglas "Doing Ethnographic History: The Case of Fighting in New Caledonia"; J.G. Carrier "Approaches to Articulation"; J. Barker "Christianity in Western Melanesian Ethnography"; R. Keesing "Kwaisulia as Culture Hero"; M.W. Young "Gone Native in Isles of Illusiuon: In Search of Asterisk in Epi".

Keywords: Melanesia, Anthropology, Papua New Guinea, Pacific, Ethnography, Ethnology, Sociology, Ethnohistory, Social Methodology