Book
Southern Lau, Fiji: an ethnography
Bernice P. Bishop Museum • (162) • Published In 1940 • Pages: iv, 228 , 5 plates
By: Thompson, Laura.
Abstract
This monograph focuses on social structure, and to a lesser extent, religion. Portions of the work deal with the life cycle, games, housing and other aspects of material culture, geography, and archaeology. A section of the work by a field assistant, Bernard Tueting, records subsistence patterns.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1996
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Polynesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- James R. Leary ; 1959
- Field Date
- 1933-1934
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Lau Islands, Fiji
- Notes
- by Laura Thompson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 244)
- LCSH
- Fijians