Adaptation and symbolism : Essays on social organization : presented to Sir Raymond Firth by his students in the United States and Canada, 1968-1974 / Ed. by Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo, S. Lee Seaton. - [Honolulu] : Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, 1978. - xix, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - 301.4 .

Includes bibliogr. references and index.

Watson-Gegeo, K. A. Introduction. - Feinberg, R. Rank and authority on Anuta Island. - Ryan, D. Cliques, factions, and leadership among the Toaripi of Papua. - Peoples, J. G. From cargo to politics: the transformation of the Yali cult. - Boggs, S. T. From the mouths of babes: reflections of social structure in the verbal interaction of part-Hawaiian children. - Wu, D. Y.-H. The Chinese in New Guinea. - Prattis, J. I. Competing paradigms and false polemics in economic anthropology. - Cove, J. J. Ecology, structuralism, and fishing taboos. - Attinasi, J. J. Structural analysis of Chol Mayan pronouns. - Seaton, S. L. and Watson-Gegeo, K. A. Meta-anthropology.

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Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002.


Social structure
Ethnology
Symbolic anthropology

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