Research Catalog

Title

Guardians of Marovo Lagoon : practice, place, and politics in maritime Melanesia / Edvard Hviding.

Author

Hviding, Edvard.

Publication

Honolulu : Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i ; University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

University of Hawaii at Manoa. Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

Description

xxix, 473 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 14

Uniform Title

Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 14.

Subject

• Coral reef ecology > New Georgia
• Maritime anthropology > New Georgia
• Marovo (Solomon Islands people) > Fishing
• Marovo (Solomon Islands people) > Land tenure
• Marovo (Solomon Islands people) > Social conditions
• New Georgia (Solomon Islands) > Economic policy
• New Georgia (Solomon Islands) > Politics and government
• New Georgia (Solomon Islands) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Approaches to Maritime Melanesia -- 2. Between Reef and Rainforest: Journeys in Marovo Lagoon -- 3. History of a "Traditional System": Transformations, Relations, and Encounters across the Sea -- 4. Organizing Flow: Social Relations and Cultural Categories -- 5. On Seas and Reefs: Maritime Knowledge and Practice -- 6. Signs in the Seascape: Encounters with Maritime Histories -- 7. Laws of the Lagoon: Customary Marine Tenure on the Fishing Grounds -- 8. The Work of the Guardians: Confronting Global Systems -- 9. Foundations of Guardianship: The Sea as Cultural and Relational Focus -- Appendix 1: Demography -- Appendix 2: Flora and Fauna.

ISBN

0824816641 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95038976^

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