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First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains
unique as the only full and detailed account by a social
anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This
new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular
texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts
have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the
performances of 1928-9 with those witnessed by Professor Firth on
his second visit to Tikopia in 1952. There is a specially written
Epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on a
third visit by the author during the summer of 1966.
First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains
unique as the only full and detailed account by a social
anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This
new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular
texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts
have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the
performances of 1928-9 with those witnessed by Professor Firth on
his second visit to Tikopia in 1952. There is a specially written
Epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on a
third visit by the author during the summer of 1966.
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