Guardians of Marovo Lagoon : : Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia / / Edvard Hviding.
“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 sh...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific Islands Monographs Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
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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