Social Change in Tikopia
Re-study of a Polynesian community after a generation| By: | Raymond Firth |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415330183 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136537523 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1959 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Re-visiting Tikopia a decade after his first visit, Raymond Firth here examines what impact the forces of modernization had on Tikopia society with regard to economics, law, politics and social affairs. Suffering a famine whilst there, the author also examined the issues of responsibility for the famine; problems of distribution in ceremonial and ritual; institutional developments from the famine.Originally published in 1959.