TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shore,Bradd
TI  - Sala'Ilua a Samoan Mystery
SN  - 9780231927109
PY  - 1982///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Oceania
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/shor92710
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