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Tikopia Songs

Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands

Tikopia Songs( )
Author: Firth, Raymond
McClean, Mervyn
Contribution by: Burke, Peter
Finnegan, Ruth
As told to: McLean, Mervyn
Series title:Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-39129-0
Publication Date:Feb 1991
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $141.00
Book Description:

Written by one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, this book is a theoretical study of aesthetic integration, showing how the poetry and music of a people can have an intimate relation with their social life. This work has important comparative value both for ethnography and for ethnomusicology. Over 100 songs of the Tikopia, a Polynesian people of the Solomon Islands, are provided, with vernacular text, translation and commentary. There is also an analysis of the...
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Book Details
Pages:328
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.24 x 9.204 x 1.053 Inches
Book Weight:1.43 Pounds
Author Biography
Firth, Raymond (Author)
Raymond Firth, a New Zealand-born English anthropologist, was Bronislaw Malinowski's successor at the London School of Economics. In 1928 he first visited the tiny island of Tikopia in the Solomons, and his monograph We, the Tikopia (1936) established his fame.

A devoted student of Malinowski, he established no school of anthropological thought, but his productive scholarship and academic statesmanship won him an important reputation in social anthropology.

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