An Introduction To The Anthropology Of Melanesia

Intended for undergraduate students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline, this work focuses on a topic common to many cultures... » 

Intended for undergraduate students with some grounding in the issues and ideas that inform the discipline, this work focuses on a topic common to many cultures in the Pacific region, such as the role of so-called Big Men, ancestors and exchange. Ethnographic examples are then given. «