The Business of Marriage: Transformations in Oceanic Matrimony (ASAO MONOGRAPH)

Book Overview

This collection of essays represents a cross-cultural examination of the transformation of indigenous marriage patterns among South Pacific peoples in response to modernising forces such as colonial governments, urbanisation, the establishment of a cash economy, compulsory education and the changing roles of women. The essays explore societies in Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. The field-work ranges from the study of bride-wealth inflation in the highlands of Papau, New Guinea - where contact with the Western world is quite recent - to marrying for resident visas in urban Fiji.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822955113
• ISBN13: 9780822955115
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"