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The people of Ifalikbook chapter 1949 • Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant)
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
Mr. Burrows is a competent ethnographer and has had wide experience in field work on many Pacific Islands-as well as Ifalik.This book contains an excellent descriptive account of the culture of a relatively unacculturated society. It covers in detail...Flower in my earBook 1963 • Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant)
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This study is concerned with the social functions of arts, mainly in the form of poetry, songs, dances, bodily decoration and tatoos, among the Ifaluk of Woleai Region, Federated Republics of Micronesia. It argues that these arts tend to be simple an...An atoll cultureBook 1953 • Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant) & Spiro, Melford E.
Woleai Region • Oceania > Micronesia
This is a general ethnographic description of the Ifaluk people of Weleai Region in the Federated States of Micronesia with particular emphasis on fishing, gardening, canoe making, residence pattern, kinship system, government, religion, life cylces ...