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More than a living : fishing and the social order on a Polynesian atoll

Title
More than a living : fishing and the social order on a Polynesian atoll / Michael D. Lieber.
Author
Lieber, Michael D.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1994.

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Description
xx, 235 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Conflict and social change series
Uniform Title
Conflict and social change series.
Subject
  • Ethnology > Micronesia (Federated States) > Kapingamarangi Atoll
  • Fishing > Micronesia (Federated States) > Kapingamarangi Atoll
  • Ethnology > Methodology
  • 48.67 fishery
  • Ethnology
  • Fishing
  • Manners and customs
  • Fischfang
  • Sozialordnung
  • Fallstudiensammlung
  • Visserij
  • Etnografie
  • Pêches > Micronésie (États fédérés) > Kapingamarangi (Atoll)
  • Ethnologie > Méthodologie
  • Kapingamarangi Atoll (Micronesia) > Social life and customs
  • Micronesia (Federated States) > Kapingamarangi Atoll
  • Polynesien
  • Kapingamarangi
  • Micronésie (États fédérés) > Moeurs et coutumes
  • Kapingamarangi (Micronésie ; atoll) > Moeurs et coutumes
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235).
Contents
Foreword / Ward H. Goodenough -- 1. Getting It Done -- 2. Traditional Fishing Activities -- 3. Netting -- 4. Pole and Line Fishing -- 5. Weirs -- 6. Collecting -- 7. Trapping -- 8. Angling -- 9. The Ordering of Constraints on Fishing Activity -- 10. Coping with a Changing Environment -- 11. The Americans: Institutionalizing Differentiation and Uncertainty -- 12. Stable Premises in a Changing World -- Appendix 1: List of Catch Techniques -- Appendix 2: Native Fishes of Kapingamarangi Atoll.
ISBN
  • 0813387809
  • 9780813387802
LCCN
93025451
OCLC
  • ocm29476178
  • 29476178
  • SCSB-2003613
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library