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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This book is about the songs of a Western Pacific people, the Tikopia, who not so long ago lived entirely on a small remote island of the Solomons. Their songs vary from lively dance chants to mournful funeral laments. All are novel to western ears. The book provides about 100 examples, in text and translation. It also discusses the relation of the songs to the social life of the people, and it includes an analysis of the structure of their music, by Mervyn McLean, a noted musicologist.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Tikopia Songs
• Subtitle: Poetic and Musical Art of a Polynesian People of the Solomon Islands
• Author: Raymond FirthMervyn McLean
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780521032056
• ISBN: 0521032059
• ID: 02019112
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 491 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 151 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2006

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