Abstract

1. Introduction to Melanesia 2. Food gathering, fishing, and hunting in the Fly estuary 3. Swidden cultivation in the Bismarck Range 4. Socialisation in the Admiralty Islands 5. Exchange cycles in the Massim Archipelago 6. Sociopolitical exchange in the Southern Highlands 7. Big men on Bougainville Island 8. Technology in the highlands fringe 9. Gender relations in the Western Highlands 10. Dispute settlement around the Paniai lakes 11. Sorcery on Dobu Island 12. Warfare and cannibalism in the Balim region 13. Initiation rites on the Sepik river 14. Ancestors and illness in the shadow of the Owen Stanley Range 15. Myth in the Star mountains.

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