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374 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm Includes bibliographical footnotes and index Outline of Tikopia culture -- Ceremonies for children -- Privilege ceremonies -- Bond friendship -- Suicide and risk-taking -- Rumour in a primitive society; with A note on the theory of Cargo cults -- Meaning of dreams -- Analysis of Mana: an empirical approach -- Sociology of magic -- Ritual adzes in Tikopia -- Totemism in Polynesia -- Economics and ritual in sago extraction -- Plasticity of myth -- Individual fantasy and social norms: seances with spirit mediums -- Fate of the soul -- Commentary
- Author
- Raymond William Firth
- Publisher
- Boston: Beacon Press
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Humanities
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