Work of the Gods in Tikopia
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ceremonial cycles
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ethnographic fieldwork
indigenous belief systems
Kava Ceremony
Kava Rite
Pa Fenuatara
Pa Fetauta
Pa Motuata
Pa Ngarumea
Pa Porima
Pa Rarovi
Pagan Polynesian ritual cycle
Polynesian religious practices
Pu Ma
ritual anthropology
Sa Kafika
Sacred Canoes
Social anthropology
Taumako Clan
Te Atua
Tikopia Ritual
Tikopia vernacular texts
Trade Wind Season
traditional Tikopia religious rituals
Turmeric Manufacture
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781845203054
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1967
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the performances of 1928-9 with those witnessed by Professor Firth on his second visit to Tikopia in 1952. There is a specially written Epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on a third visit by the author during the summer of 1966.
Raymond Firth is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
