Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time being spent in the chiefly village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau. This book is collection of her field research.

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Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time being spent in the chiefly village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau. This book is collection of her field research.

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Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

by Christina Toren
Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

by Christina Toren

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Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time being spent in the chiefly village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau. This book is collection of her field research.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000324426
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/20/2020
Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 292
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Christina Toren, London School of Economics

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Kinship and hierarchy within the household 3 Transforming equality into hierarchy 4 Hierarchy and equality beyond the household 5 Containing equality- the yfUJona ceremony 6 Hierarchy and space in the church 7 Government and traditional hierarchy 8 Learning about seniority and gender 9 Understanding above/below 10 Cognition as a micro-historical process

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