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Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value.William Rodman, AnthropologicaA major contribution to the ethnography and history of Malaita and Melanesia, and to the growing literature on cultural resistance. But above all, his humane and painful analysis of the meeting of peoples living in different worlds and constructing their agendas and moralities on incommensurateand apparently equally arbitraryprinciples, represents a major contribution and challenge to anthropological thought, addressing the basic issue of what it is to be human.Fredrik Barth

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 12/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226429199, 978-0226429199
      ISBN10: 0226429199
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      Book Synopsis
      Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value.William Rodman, AnthropologicaA major contribution to the ethnography and history of Malaita and Melanesia, and to the growing literature on cultural resistance. But above all, his humane and painful analysis of the meeting of peoples living in different worlds and constructing their agendas and moralities on incommensurateand apparently equally arbitraryprinciples, represents a major contribution and challenge to anthropological thought, addressing the basic issue of what it is to be human.Fredrik Barth

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