Summary: | Positioned among historical and cultural studies and at a confluence of subdisciplines within anthropology, historical anthropology provides a forum within which to perpetuate the debates of the last two decades but on new and less parochial terrain. Combining an area focus with an equal concern for theory, these eight cutting-edge essays (and a detailed introduction) explore the history and culture of Polynesia and Melanesia. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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