Living Kinship in the Pacific: 4 (Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists, 4) - Hardcover

"...studying kinship is like vitamins for anthropologists: it's always beneficial, and we don't get enough. This book provides strong and useful accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific." * Matt Tomlinson, Australian National University; "A timely and worthwhile manuscript. The introduction is compelling and contemporary, and the chapters in the main are very well written, clear, interesting and suggestive... [the] enlightening discussion of ritual and learning in childhood, and what that implies for how people come to 'know' about kin... and about the significance and meaning of [kinship] practices, is excellent." * James Leach, Researcher CNRS, CREDO

Christina Toren earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St. Andrews. Her works include Mind, Materiality and History (1999) and The Challenge of Epistemology (co-edited with Joao de Pina-Cabral, 2012). Simonne Pauwels is a Researcher at CNRS and the adjunct director of CREDO. Before working in Fiji, she conducted research in Eastern Indonesia for many years and, besides a number of articles, has written Metanleru, un voilier predateur: Renommee et fertilite dans l'ile de Selaru (2009) and D'un nom a l'autre en Asie du Sud-Est, Approches ethnologiques (co-edited with Josiane Massard-Vincent, 1999).