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Sala'Ilua a Samoan Mystery / Bradd Shore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1982]Copyright date: ©1982Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231927109
  • 9780231890076
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- The Island Setting -- PART I. EVENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. A Death in the Family -- CHAPTER TWO. Repercussions -- PART II. STRUCTURES -- CHAPTER THREE. Sala'ilua Village -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Matai System -- CHAPTER FIVE. Fa'alupega and Fono: The Framework of a Local Political Order -- CHAPTER SIX. Titles: The Articulation of an Aristocracy -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Village Organization: Structures of Social Control -- PART III MEANINGS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Persons -- CHAPTER NINE. Action -- CHAPTER TEN. Knowledge and Judgment -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conflict in the Context of Social Relations -- CHAPTER TWELVE. The Symbolism of Power: Dual Organization and Social Order -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Esthetics of Social Context: Dual Organization and Expressive Culture -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Conclusions: Structure and Event in Sala'ilua -- APPENDIX A. Two Voices of Moral Judgment: An Analysis of Questionnaire Results -- APPENDIX B. Contrast Pairs: Formal and Intimate Styles -- Notes -- Glossary of Samoan Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Presents an ethnography of Samoa cast as a mystery story. Studies a murder and the sequence of events surrounding it as the center while looking at the culture as a whole.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- The Island Setting -- PART I. EVENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. A Death in the Family -- CHAPTER TWO. Repercussions -- PART II. STRUCTURES -- CHAPTER THREE. Sala'ilua Village -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Matai System -- CHAPTER FIVE. Fa'alupega and Fono: The Framework of a Local Political Order -- CHAPTER SIX. Titles: The Articulation of an Aristocracy -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Village Organization: Structures of Social Control -- PART III MEANINGS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Persons -- CHAPTER NINE. Action -- CHAPTER TEN. Knowledge and Judgment -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conflict in the Context of Social Relations -- CHAPTER TWELVE. The Symbolism of Power: Dual Organization and Social Order -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Esthetics of Social Context: Dual Organization and Expressive Culture -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Conclusions: Structure and Event in Sala'ilua -- APPENDIX A. Two Voices of Moral Judgment: An Analysis of Questionnaire Results -- APPENDIX B. Contrast Pairs: Formal and Intimate Styles -- Notes -- Glossary of Samoan Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

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Presents an ethnography of Samoa cast as a mystery story. Studies a murder and the sequence of events surrounding it as the center while looking at the culture as a whole.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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