Download or read book The Work of the Gods in Tikopia written by Raymond Firth and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1928-9 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.
Download or read book The Work of the Gods in Tikopia written by RAYMOND. FIRTH and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1928-9 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.
Download or read book The Work of the Gods in Tikopia written by Raymond Firth and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1967-02 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939, this book gives an account by a social anthropologist of a pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. It omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a theoretical introduction. There is a specially written Epilogue on the final eclipse of the traditional ritual, based on a third visit by the author.
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Download or read book The Work of the Gods in Tikopia Second Edition with New Introduction and Epilogue written by Raymond Firth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Work of the Gods in Tikopia written by Raymond William Firth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Study in Ritual Modification written by Raymond Firth and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Work of the Gods in Tikopia with New Introduction and Epilogue written by Raymond Firth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Rank and Religion in Tikopia written by Raymond Firth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1970, this book represents a unique study of beliefs and ritual practices in a pagan religion, and of the processes by which a transformation to Christianity took place. Christianity came to the major islands of Polynesia nearly two centuries ago, and within a couple of generations, the traditional pagan religion had disappeared. Only a few remote islands such as Tikopia preserved their ancient cults. Over eighty years ago, the author first observed and took part in these pagan rites, and on later visits he studied the change from paganism to Christian faith. Unique in its rich documentation, this book presents a systematic account of the traditional beliefs in gods and spirits and of the way in which these were fused with the social and political structure. The causes and dramatic results of the conversion to Christianity are then described, ending with an examination of the religious situation at the time of the book's original publication. The book is both a contribution to anthropology and a case study in religious history. It completes the major series of studies of Tikopia society for which the author is famous. It gives the first full account of a Polynesian religious system in a state of change.
