Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms: Ethnographies of Experience

Intro -- Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sociality as Figure -- Chapter 3. Fighting Hierarchy -- Chapter 4. Landscapes of Sociality -- Chapter 5. Disentangling the Butubutu of New Georgia -- Chapter 6. Pathway and Side -- Chapter 7. Making Sides -- Chapter 8. 'The Other Kind' -- Chapter 9. 'Maori are Different, but We are Similar for Particular Reasons' -- Chapter 10. Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index

Annotation The essays in this text attempt a new kind of ethnographic description of social life that treats structure and practice with aspects of the same reality. This is achieved through attention to indigenous conceptualizations of the way society itself is generated