Quadripartite Structures: Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture.

Preface 1. Introduction: the problem and the people 2. Between village and bush 3. Body and cosmos 4. Sex, procreation and menstruation 5. Male and female 6. Kin, clan and connubium 7. Feasts of death: de-conception and re-conception 8. Feasts of death: the sons of Akaisa 9. Tikopia and the Trobriands 10. Conclusions, indigenous categories, cultural wholes and historical process Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.