Neither 'new Melanesian history' nor 'new Melanesian ethnography': Recovering emplaced matrilineages in southeast Solomon Islands

Oceania

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-354

  Scott, Michael W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Custom objectification; Land disputes; Matrilineal land tenure; Melanesian sociality; Parts and wholes

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349099003     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2007.tb00020.x     Document Type: Review

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