Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia (Pacific Islands Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Hviding, Edvard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824816641 ISBN 13: 9780824816643

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1996

Synopsis

“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
Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 14
Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i

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From the Back Cover

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.

Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0824816641
• ISBN 13: 9780824816643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 512