Peasants in the Pacific / Adrian C. Mayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer, Adrian C., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed., Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION

INTRODUCTION

I. THE BACKGROUND

II. HISTORY AND PATTERNS OF SETTLEMENT

III. ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

IV. RITUAL ACTIVITIES

V. CONTEXTS OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY

VI. POLITICAL PATTERNS IN THE SETTLEMENT

VII. CULTURE, CASTE AND KINSHIP

VIII. THE SETTLEMENTS AND THE OUTSIDE

IX. TWENTY YEARS AFTER

REFERENCES

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520332560

0520332563

OCLC:

1224279402