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- ISBN: 9780253209580 | 0253209587
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1995
"This collection of articles touches upon some important issues in humanistic anthropology.... Folklorists, students of comparative literature, and anthropologists can all find something of interest in these essays." -- American Anthropologist"Superbly edited, impeccably researched, and discriminatingly tied together as a coherent gathering of insight, the volume is a welcome addition to a significant field of study that is only now beginning to appreciate the finer achievements of the South Pacific's unique contribution." -- Rongorongo Studies"... the defining collection on contemporary verbal arts in Oceania.... of real value to scholars concerned with the relationships between verbal art, social change, gender, power, [and] social organization." -- Don Brenneis"... it will be welcome to historians of the South Pacific and useful to others grappling with problems of oral tradition." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History"The volume abundantly illustrates the continuing vitality of oral traditions in the South Pacific, as well as the continuing wealth these traditions provide for researchers." -- Pacific Affairs