In this study Garry Trompf shows how various aspects of 'payback', both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life.
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In this study Garry Trompf shows how various aspects of 'payback', both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life.
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545. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-library. Dust jacket has been sliced so library markings show. Edges of dust jacket are curling worn and creased. Boards are slightly edge worn with some curling at spine edges. 545 pages. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xx, 545pp, index, bibliography. Or red boards in jacket. Very slight fading to spine, foxing to top edge. Looks at 'payback' in Melanesian religions from Fiji to western New Guinea. Covers not only anthropological concerns, but also those relating to history and sociology, specifically the adjustment of Melanesians to the coming of Christianity and the colonial order imposed on them.