The Work of the Gods in Tikopia : Second Edition - Raymond Firth

The Work of the Gods in Tikopia

Second Edition

By: Raymond Firth

Hardcover | 1 January 1967 | Edition Number 1

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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 1928-29 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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