[Download] "Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu" by M. G. Swift # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu
- Author : M. G. Swift
- Release Date : January 14, 2021
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5693 KB
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First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical introduction; postscripts have also been supplied to some of the chapters comparing the performances of 1928-9 with those witnessed by Professor Firth on his second visit to Tikopia in 1952. There is a specially written Epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on a third visit by the author during the summer of 1966.