Sala'Ilua a Samoan Mystery / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1982] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 1982 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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