The History of Melanesian Society
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| The history of Melanesian society (1914) by |
| Originally published in 1914 by the University Press, Cambridge. OCLC 61921385all editions and OCLC 61994016all editions. Republished in American Anthropologist [1]. It was reviewed in American Historical Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jan., 1916)[2]. Rivers considered this work to be his most important contribution to science.[3] |
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[edit] Table of contents
[edit] Volume 1
- I - Introduction
- II - Banks Islands
- III - Banks Islands
- IV - Banks Islands
- V - Banks Islands
- VI - Banks Islands
- VII - The Torres Islands
- VIII - The New Hebrides
- IX - The Santa Cruz Islands
- X - The Solomon Islands
- XI - Fiji
- XII - Tikopia
- XIII - Tonga, Samoa, Niue
- XIV - The Hawaian Islands
- - Comparative Table of Terms of Relationship
[edit] Volume 2
- XV - Introduction
- XVI - The morphological comparison of systems of relationship
- XVII - Melanesian Gerontocracy
- XVIII - Social Organisation
- XIX - Decent, Inheritance and Succession
- XX - Marriage
- XXI - Communism
- XXII - Functions of Relatives
- XXIII - The Linguistic Comparison
- XXIV - Secret Societies
- XXV - Tikopia
- XXVI - Kava and Betel
- XXVII - Belief and Ceremonial connected with Death
- XXVIII - Migrations
- XXIX - Immigrant Influence on Social Organisation
- XXX - Totemism
- XXXI - Decorative Art
- XXXII - Communism and Money
- XXXIII - Religion and Magic
- XXXIV - Sun and Moon; Stone-work; Incision; Tattooing
- XXXV - Material Culture
- XXXVI - Language
- XXXVII - The Bismarck Archipelago
- XXXVIII - The Dual Organisation
- XXXIX - Conclusions
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