Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

摘要: "Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart moral take, simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, resisted for more than 100 years, yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends its true meaning value."-William Rodman, "Anthropologica" "A major contribution to ethnography history Malaita Melanesia, growing literature on cultural resistance. above all, his humane painful analysis meeting peoples living in different worlds constructing their agendas moralities incommensurate-and apparently equally arbitrary-principles, represents challenge anthropological thought, addressing basic issue what be human."-Fredrik Barth