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The Business of marriage : transformations in Oceanic matrimony
- Title
- The Business of marriage : transformations in Oceanic matrimony / Richard A. Marksbury, editor.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburg Press, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Marksbury, Richard A., 1951-
- Description
- x, 265 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- ASAO monograph ; no. 14
- Uniform Title
- ASAO monograph ; no. 14.
- Alternative Title
- Marriage.
- Subject
- Marriage customs and rites > Oceania
- Marriage > Social aspects > Oceania
- Marriage > Economic aspects > Oceania
- Women > Oceania > Social conditions
- 73.43 family, kinship and marriage (ethnology)
- Manners and customs
- Marriage customs and rites
- Marriage > Economic aspects
- Marriage > Social aspects
- Women > Social conditions
- Ehe
- Sozioökonomischer Wandel
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Huwelijk
- Huwelijksgebruiken
- Mariage > Rites et cérémonies > Océanie
- Mariage > Aspect social > Océanie
- Femmes > Océanie > Conditions sociales
- Oceania > Social life and customs
- Oceania
- Ozeanien
- Océanie > Moeurs et coutumes
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Marriage in transition in Oceania / Richard A. Marksbury -- Marriage exchange on Ponam Island, from 1920 to 1985 / Achsah Carrier -- Money and marriage in Telefolmin : from sister exchange to daughter as trade store / Dan Jorgensen -- Bachelors, spinsters, and pamuk meris / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi -- Manga marriage in transition, from 1961 to 1981 / Susan M. Pflanz-Cook -- Tying the knot in Pohnpei / Suzanne Falgout -- Courtship and marriage on Yap : Budweiser, U-drives, and rock guitars / Sherwood G. Lingenfelter -- Love and marriage among the educated elite in Port Moresby / Pamela Rosi and Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi -- Indo-Fijian marriage in Suva : a little love, a little romance, and a visa / Shireen Lateef -- International movement and Samoan marriage in Hawaii / Robert W. Franco -- New marriages in the new Pacific / Martha C. Ward.
- ISBN
- 082293762X
- 9780822937623
- 0822955113
- 9780822955115
- LCCN
- 93001008
- OCLC
- ocm27813307
- 27813307
- SCSB-2009040
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library