05546oam 2200709I 450 991079065120332120230617024835.01-136-53724-40-415-86654-51-315-01753-91-136-53717-110.4324/9781315017532 (CKB)2550000001131121(EBL)1474429(OCoLC)862049065(SSID)ssj0001166229(PQKBManifestationID)11685292(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001166229(PQKBWorkID)11118230(PQKB)11534442(MiAaPQ)EBC1474429(Au-PeEL)EBL1474429(CaPaEBR)ebr10786645(CaONFJC)MIL530830(OCoLC)868973044(FINmELB)ELB138737(EXLCZ)99255000000113112120180331e20041939 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrimitive Polynesian economy /Raymond FirthOxon [England] :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (633 p.)Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Raymond Firth : collected works ;IIIFirst published in 1939.0-415-33017-3 1-299-99579-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Diagram; Preface; Chapter I. Problems of Primitive Economics; Modern Studies in Primitive Economics; Methods and Theory of Modern Social Anthropology; Lack of Co-ordination between Anthropology and Economics; Major Problems of Tikopia Economics; Chapter II. Food and Population in Tikopia; Wants and their Satisfaction; The Social Context of Food; The Population Problem; Crude Factors of Population Pressure; Possible Changes in Agricultural ProductionPopulation and Land of Chiefly GroupsCommand of Food Resources by Individuals; Cultivation of the Major Food Plants; Variations in Food Supply, 1928-9; Chapter III. Knowledge, Technique, and Economic Lore; The Level of Technical Achievement; Invention as a Cultural Process; Reason and Rule in Technical Procedure; The Distribution and Transmission of Economic Lore; Chapter IV. The Labour Situation; Division of Labour; Occupational Specialists; Types of Co-operation in Work; Study of a Working Party at the Repair of a Canoe; The Role of Language in Work; Case Material on Specific UndertakingsLabour SupplyLeadership in Work; Ideology of Production; Attitudes to Work; Efficiency of the Tikopia Labour Organization; Chapter V. Ritual in Productive Activity; The General Problem of Ritual and Economics; Some General Propositions for Tikopia; Different Forms of Ritual of Production; Ritual of Net-making; Effects of Ritual on Production; Chapter VI. Economic Functions of the Chiefs; Economic Position of a Potential Chief; The Role of the Chief in Production; The Imposition of Tapu; Classification of Taboos; The Chief as Consumer; A Chief gives a Feast; Social Effects of FeastsThe Chief's contribution in the Tikopia EconomyChapter VII. Property and Capital in Production; Accumulation of Some Major Types of Goods; Canoes; Pandanus Mats; Sinnet; Bark-cloth; Concept of Ownership; Ownership of Land; Ownership of Manufactured Goods; Theft and the Conservation of Property; Entry of Goods into Production; Summary; Chapter VIII. Principles of Distribution and Payment; Apportionment of the Product of Co-operative Work; Food as Payment for Labour; Goods as Payment for Specialized Labour; Payment to Other Factors of Production; Payment for Non-labour Services; Covert ExchangeThe Concept of ReciprocityChapter IX. Exchange and Value; Exchange of Goods; Forced Exchange; Borrowing, Theft, and Compensation; Ceremonial Exchange; Marriage Exchanges; Exchange in Mortuary Ceremonies; The Economic Value of Goods; The Relative Worth of Goods in Tikopia; Spheres of Exchange; Ceremonial Destruction; Exchange in a Personalized Economy; Chapter X. Characteristics of a Primitive Economy; Appendix I: Synoptic Record of a Tikopia Year (1928-29); Variations in Daily Production; Appendix II: Some Linguistic Categories in Tikopia Distribution and ExchangeAppendix III: Exchange Rates in a Culture Contact SituationA great classic of British anthropology, <EM>Primitive Polynesian Economy</EM> is structured as follows:<BR> · Problems of Primitive Economics<BR> · Food and Population in Tikopia<BR> · Knowledge, Technique and Economic Lore<BR> · The Labour Situation<BR> · Ritual in Productive Activity<BR> · Economic Functions of the Chiefs<BR> · Property and Capital in Production<BR> · Principles of Distribution and Payment<BR> · Exchange and Value<BR> · Characteristics of a Primitive Economy<BR> First published in 1939.Routledge library editions.Anthropology and ethnography ;III.Tikopia (Solomon Islands people)Economic anthropologyTikopia (Solomon Islands people)Economic anthropology.420Firth Raymond1901-2002.,119644MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790651203321Primitive Polynesian economy21725UNINA