Research Catalog

Title

Siblingship in Oceania : studies in the meaning of kin relations / edited by Mac Marshall.

Publication

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, ©1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marshall, Mac.
• Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

Description

xii, 421 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Uniform Title

ASAO monograph ; no. 8.

Subject

• Siblings > Oceania > Congresses
• Kinship > Oceania > Congresses
• Siblings
• Kinship
• Manners and customs
• Oceania > Social life and customs > Congresses
• Oceania

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Revisions of some of the papers presented at a symposium entitled "The Meaning of sibling in Oceania" at the 7th annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, held Feb. 15-19, 1978, in Pacific Grove, Calif.
• Reprint. Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c1979. (ASAO monograph ; no. 8) (Imprint series) (Monograph publishing)

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [405]-418.

Contents

Introduction : Approaches to siblingship in Oceania / Mac Marshall -- Meanings of siblingship in Marquesan society / John Kirkpatrick -- The cultural contexts of siblingship in Pukapuka / Julia A. Hecht -- Complementary and similar kinsmen in Tokelau / Judith Huntsman -- The meaning of 'sibling' on Anuta / Richard Feinberg -- Authority, equality and complementarity in Butaritari-Makin sibling relationships (northern Gilbert Islands) / Bernd Lambert -- Sibling sets as building blocks in greater Trukese society / Mac Marshall -- Palauan siblingship : a study in structural complementarity / DeVerne Reed Smith -- Siblings as spouses : the reproduction and replacement of Kaulong society / Jane C. Goodale -- Siblings in Malo culture / Robert L. Rubinstein -- Cain and Abel on the Malay Peninsula / Robert McKinley -- Conclusions / David M. Schneider.

ISBN

• 0472027158
• 9780472027156

LCCN

81010495

OCLC

• ocm07573126
• 7573126
• SCSB-41279

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library