Sala'Ilua a Samoan Mystery / / Bradd Shore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Shore, Bradd,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1982]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 1982
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Illustrations --; Preface --; The Island Setting --; PART I. EVENTS --; CHAPTER ONE. A Death in the Family --; CHAPTER TWO. Repercussions --; PART II. STRUCTURES --; CHAPTER THREE. Sala'ilua Village --; CHAPTER FOUR. The Matai System --; CHAPTER FIVE. Fa'alupega and Fono: The Framework of a Local Political Order --; CHAPTER SIX. Titles: The Articulation of an Aristocracy --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Village Organization: Structures of Social Control --; PART III MEANINGS --; Introduction --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Persons --; CHAPTER NINE. Action --; CHAPTER TEN. Knowledge and Judgment --; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conflict in the Context of Social Relations --; CHAPTER TWELVE. The Symbolism of Power: Dual Organization and Social Order --; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Esthetics of Social Context: Dual Organization and Expressive Culture --; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Conclusions: Structure and Event in Sala'ilua --; APPENDIX A. Two Voices of Moral Judgment: An Analysis of Questionnaire Results --; APPENDIX B. Contrast Pairs: Formal and Intimate Styles --; Notes --; Glossary of Samoan Terms --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231890076; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/shor92710
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bradd Shore.

Presents an ethnography of Samoa cast as a mystery story. Studies a murder and the sequence of events surrounding it as the center while looking at the culture as a whole.