Guardians of Marovo Lagoon : : Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia / / Edvard Hviding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Hviding, Edvard,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Islands Monographs Series ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

“This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes’s Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Melanesia (1981), and it stands as a major contribution to the study of indigenous marine tenure systems that should be required reading for everyone concerned with the issue of allocating marine resources.” —American AnthropologistPacific Islands Monograph Series No. 14Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Chapter 1 Approaches to Maritime Melanesia -- Chapter 2 Between Reefand Rainforest: Journeys in Marovo Lagoon -- Chapter 3 History of a "Traditional System": Transformations, Relations, and Encounters across the Sea -- Chapter 4 Organizing Flow: Social Relations and Cultural Categories -- Chapter 5 On Seas and Reefs: Maritime Knowledge and Practice -- Chapter 6 Signs in the Seascape: Encounters with Maritime Histories -- Chapter 7 Laws of the Lagoon: Customary Marine Tenure on the Fishing Grounds -- Chapter 8 The Work of the Guardians: Confronting Global Systems -- Chapter 9 Foundations of Guardianship: The Sea as Cultural and Relational Focus -- Appendix 1 Demography -- Appendix 2 Flora and Fauna -- Notes -- Glossary of Marovo Words -- References -- Index -- About the Author