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The Work of the Gods in Tikopia : Second Edition, Paperback / softback Book

The Work of the Gods in Tikopia : Second Edition Paperback / softback

Part of the LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology series

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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.

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