| Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia Contributor(s): Hviding, Edvard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0824816641 ISBN-13: 9780824816643 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $27.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: In Hviding's case, the gap between the social and natural sciences is bridged as he deftly draws on conceptual frameworks from social and cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, history, and marine biology. As he tells the story of the people of Marovo Lagoon in New Georgia in the western Solomon Islands, his focus is on customary marine tenure, a topic that has been surprisingly neglected by most anthropologists working in the Pacific. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.099 |
| LCCN: 95038976 |
| Series: Pacific Islands Monographs |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6.25" W x 9.43" (2.18 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes's Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Melanesia (1981), and it stands as a major contribution to the study of indigenous marine tenure systems that should be required reading for everyone concerned with the issue of allocating marine resources." --American Anthropologist |