History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology

James G. Carrier, editor

Suggested citation:
Carrier, James G., editor History and Tradition in Melanesian Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft509nb347/

Preface

Introduction.
One Banana Leaf Bundles and Skirts: A Pacific Penelope's Web?
Two Substantivization and Anthropological Discourse: The Transformation of Practices into Institutions in Neotraditional Pacific Societies
Three Doing Ethnographic History: The Case of Fighting in New Caledonia.
Four Approaches to Articulation
Five Christianity in Western Melanesian Ethnography
Six Kwaisulia as Culture Hero
Seven Gone Native in Isles of Illusion In Search of Asterisk in Epi.
Epilogue.

Notes
Contributors.

Contents