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Making Sense of Hierarchy

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Making Sense of Hierarchy

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Cognition as Social Process in Fiji

Making Sense of Hierarchy

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Cognition as Social Process in Fiji
ByChristina Toren
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1990
eBook Published 21 August 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136248
Pages 292
eBook ISBN 9781003136248
Subjects Social Sciences
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Toren, C. (1990). Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003136248

ABSTRACT

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time being spent in the chiefly village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau. This book is collection of her field research.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|28 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|21 pages

Kinship and hierarchy within the household

chapter 3|15 pages

Transforming equality into hierarchy

chapter 4|25 pages

Hierarchy and equality beyond the household

chapter 5|29 pages

Containing equality – the yaqona ceremony

chapter 6|19 pages

Hierarchy and space in the church

chapter 7|29 pages

Government and traditional hierarchy

chapter 8|29 pages

Learning about seniority and gender

chapter 9|21 pages

Understanding above/below

chapter 10|31 pages

Cognition as a microhistorical process

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