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Matupit; land, politics, and change among the Tolai of New Britain

Title
Matupit; land, politics, and change among the Tolai of New Britain [by] A.L. Epstein.
Author
Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard)
Publication
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969.

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Description
xiii, 335 pages illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Tolai (Melanesian people)
  • Tolai (Peuple de Mélanésie)
  • Economic conditions > Islands of the Pacific
  • Politics and government, Local > Islands of the Pacific
  • Matupit Island (Papua New Guinea)
  • Matupit, Île (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
  • Papua New Guinea > Matupit Island
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 324-332.
Contents
Gazelle Peninsula in its historical setting -- Island of Matupit and the town of Rabaul -- Economy of modern Matupit -- Local grouping and organisation -- System of land tenure -- Land litigation and the political process -- Exchange, Tambu, and leadership -- Beginnings of modern politics -- Continuity in change.
ISBN
  • 0520015568
  • 9780520015562
LCCN
78081777
OCLC
  • ocm00051742
  • 51742
  • SCSB-870451
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library