ABSTRACT
Tikopia may have changed greatly as a result of the war in the Pacific. There are many interesting things in Raymond Firth's account of Tikopia besides a study of kinship. The island of Tikopia lies approximately in latitude 12° 30' S, longitude 168° 30' E. The climate of Tikopia, like that of most oceanic islands in the tropics, is pleasant though damp. The Tikopia lived in "villages" of low huts thatched with palm leaf, each village near a spring and back of the beach, conveniently placed for the work of both sea and land. Besides the division into villages, Tikopia is split into two main districts, Faea and Ravenga, corresponding to the concentrations of population on the northwest and southeast, the leeward and windward, shores. The Tikopia make their living by fishing and farming. The household in Tikopia usually includes more than one nuclear family.
