The Demystification of Yap: Dialectics of Culture on a Micronesian Island
by Labby, David
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Minor rubbing, small tear to dustwrapper, VG., dustwrapper 8pp photo illus, textual map Social Anthropology University of Chicago Press Chicago (1976) orig.cloth 22x14cm, xiv,144,(8) pp Contents: Introduction; The People & the Land; "Our Land Belongs to Someone Else: Someone Else's Land Belongs to Us"; "The People of the Estate"; "Pure" (tabugul) & "Impure" (taay); "The Side of the Chiefs" versus "The Side of the Young Men"; Epilogue.
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- Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark (DK)
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- Title
- The Demystification of Yap: Dialectics of Culture on a Micronesian Island
- Author
- Labby, David
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor rubbing, small tear to dustwrapper, VG., dustwrapper
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Date Published
- (1976)
- Keywords
- Micronesia Yap Ethnology Ethnography Sociology Caroline Islands Kinship Land Tenure
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