Umfang:
1 online resource (420 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415330176
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9781136537172
Inhalt:
A great classic of British anthropology, Primitive Polynesian Economy was first published in 1939
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Diagrams -- Preface -- Chapter I. Problems of Primitive Economics -- Modern Studies in Primitive Economic -- Methods and Theory of Modern Social Anthropology -- Lack of Co-ordination between Anthropology and Economics -- Major Problems of Tikopia Economics -- Chapter II. Food and Population in Tikopia -- Wants and their Satisfaction -- The Social Context of Food -- The Population Problem -- Crude Factors of Population Pressure -- Possible Changes in Agricultural Production -- Population and Land of Chiefly Groups -- Command of Food Resources by Individuals -- Cultivation of the Major Food Plants -- Variations in Food Supply, 1928-9 -- Chapter III. Knowledge, Technique, and Economic Lore -- The Level of Technical Achievement -- Invention as a Cultural Process -- Reason and Rule in Technical Procedure -- The Distribution and Transmission of Economic Lore -- Chapter IV. The Labour Situation -- Division of Labour -- Occupational Specialists -- Types of Co-operation in Work -- Study of a Working Party at the Repair of a Canoe -- The Role of Language in Work -- Case Material on Specific Undertakings -- Labour Supply -- Leadership in Work -- Ideology of Production -- Attitudes to Work -- Efficiency of the Tikopia Labour Organization -- Chapter V. Ritual in Productive Activity -- The General Problem of Ritual and Economics -- Some General Propositions for Tikopia -- Different Forms of Ritual of Production -- Ritual of Net-making -- Effects of Ritual on Production -- Chapter VI. Economic Functions of the Chiefs -- Economic Position of a Potential Chief -- The Role of the Chief in Production -- The Imposition of Tapu -- Classification of Taboos -- The Chief as Consumer -- A Chief gives a Feast
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Social Effects of Feasts -- The Chief's contribution in the Tikopia Economy -- Chapter VII. Property and Capital in Production -- Accumulation of Some Major Types of Goods -- Canoes -- Pandanus Mats -- Sinnet -- Bark-cloth -- Concept of Ownership -- Ownership of Land -- Ownership of Manufactured Goods -- Theft and the Conservation of Property -- Entry of Goods into Production -- Summary -- Chapter VIII. Principles of Distribution and Payment -- Apportionment of the Product of Co-operative Work -- Food as Payment for Labour -- Goods as Payment for Specialized Labour -- Payment to Other Factors of Production -- Payment for Non-labour Services -- Covert Exchange -- The Concept of Reciprocity -- Chapter IX. Exchange and Value -- Exchange of Goods -- Forced Exchange -- Borrowing, Theft, and Compensation -- Ceremonial Exchange -- Marriage Exchanges -- Exchange in Mortuary Ceremonies -- The Economic Value of Goods -- The Relative Worth of Goods in Tikopia -- Sphares of Exchange -- Ceremonial Destruction -- Exchange in a Personalized Economy -- Chapter X. Characteristics of a Primitive Economy -- Appendix I. Synoptic Record of a Tikopia Year (1928-9) -- Variations in Daily Production -- Appendix II. Some Linguistic Categories in Tikopia Distribution and Exchange -- Appendix III. Exchange Rates in a Culture Contact Situation -- Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Firth, Raymond Primitive Polynesian Economy Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2004 ISBN 9780415330176
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Englisch
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