Douglas Oliver — Two Tahitian Villages: A Study in Comparisons

Honolulu, Hawaii, The Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Classic ethnographic comparison of two rural Tahitian villages by a doyenne of cultural anthropology in the insular Pacific based primarily on two years' worth of intensive ethnographic fieldwork. Additional archival and documentary evidence galore. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected, lightly creased, but fully intact, not price-clipped. Brick-red cloth over boards, brown cloth-backed, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Map endpapers and a special focus on tribal economics. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv, 1-557 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,