The Genesis and Repression of Conflict: Choiseul Island

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American AnthropologistVolume 66, Issue 4 p. 789-804 Free Access The Genesis and Repression of Conflict: Choiseul Island1 H. W. SCHEFFLER, H. W. SCHEFFLER Yale UniversitySearch for more papers by this author H. W. SCHEFFLER, H. W. SCHEFFLER Yale UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: August 1964 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1964.66.4.02a00030Citations: 5 1 Field work was carried out on Choiseul Island over a period of eighteen months between November 1958 and April 1961 and was sponsored by the Tri-Institutional Pacific Program and the United States Educational Foundation in Australia. Earlier drafts of this paper were read at the 1962 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, to the Philadelphia Anthropological Society and to a seminar at Brandeis University. AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL REFERENCES CITED Barnes, J. A. 1962 African models in the New Guinea highlands. Man 62: 5– 9. Beattie, J. H. M. 1961 Comments on Anthropological studies of complex societies by S. N. Eisenstadt. Current Anthropology 2: 211. Colson, E. 1962 Social control and vengeance in Plateau Tonga society. Reprinted in, The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia: social and religious studies. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Coses, L. 1956 The functions of social conflict. Glencoe, The Free Press. Coses, L. 1963 Peaceful settlements and the dysfunctions of secrecy. Journal of Conflict Resolution 7: 246– 253. Easton, D. 1959 Political anthropology. In Biennial review of anthropology, 1959, B. J. Siegel, ed. Stanford, Stanford University Press. Eisenstadt, S. N. 1961 Anthropological studies of complex societies. Current Anthropology 2: 201– 222. Fdjth, R. 1957 A note on descent groups in Polynesia. Man 57: 4– 8. Glasse, R. 1959 Revenge and redress among the Huli. Mankind 5: 173– 209. Gluckman, M. 1955 Custom and conflict in Africa. Glencoe, The Free Press. Gluckman, M. 1962 Les rites de passage. In Essays on the ritual of social relations, M. Gluckman, ed. Manchester, Manchester University Press. Horton, R. 1963 The boundaries of explanation in social anthropology. Man 63: 8– 11. Kopytoff, I. 1961 Extension of conflict as a method of conflict resolution among the Suku of the Congo. Journal of Conflict Resolution 5: 61– 69. Leach, E. R. 1960 Review of Organization of work: a comparative analysis of production among non-industrial peoples (edited by S. H. Udy 1959. New Haven, HRAF Press). American Sociological Review 25: 136– 138. Leach, E. R. 1961 Rethinking anthropology. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 22. Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. 1940 Preface to African political systems, M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard, eds. London, Oxford University Press. Sahlins, M. D. 1961 The segmentary lineage: an organization of predatory expansion. American Anthropologist 63: 322– 345. Scheffler, H. W. 1963 Kindred and kin groups in Choiseul Island social structure. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago. Scheffler, H. W. 1964 Political finance in Melanesia. Natural History Magazine (in press). Shibutani, T. 1955 Reference groups as perspectives. American Journal of Sociology 60: 562– 569. Simmel, G. 1955 Conflict and the web of group affiliations. Translated from the German by K. Wolff and R. Bendix. Glencoe, The Free Press. Stanner, W. E. H. 1959 Continuity and schism in an African tribe; a review. Oceania 29: 208– 217. Wilson, C. 1932 The wake of the Southern Cross. London, n.p. Citing Literature Volume66, Issue4August 1964Pages 789-804 ReferencesRelatedInformation