Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji: Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior

by Christina Toren

Overview

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780485195613
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Series:	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology , #61
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christina Toren,London School of Economics

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Kinship and hierarchy within the household 3 Transforming equality into hierarchy 4 Hierarchy and equality beyond the household 5 Containing equality- the yfUJona ceremony 6 Hierarchy and space in the church 7 Government and traditional hierarchy 8 Learning about seniority and gender 9 Understanding above/below 10 Cognition as a micro-historical process