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The Kroeber Anthropological Society
Papers
Numbers 57 and 58
Spring and Fall 1978
Editorial Staff
Suzanne Bowler
Sarah Freeman
Faith Harrington
Rosemary
Terry Haynes
Bruce Koplin
Carolyn Nordstrom
Zumwalt
Officers of the Society
Elizabeth Bacus
Suzanne Bowler
Carolyn
Sarah Freeman
Faith Harrington
Nordstrom
Cover Photograph by Lemont Lindstrom. Seram shelters under a
banana leaf during a rainstorm at Samaria village, Tanna, Vanatu
while her brother Tio stands by content to get wet.
Kroeber Anthropological Society
Berkeley, California
(1981)
CONTENTS
Sex Roles and Sex Symbols in Tikopia Society
Raymond  Firth  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  1
Religion and its Effect on Social Cohesion
in an Emerging Community
Deirdre Parker Arntz  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Humor in a Group of Hawaiian Adolescents
Louise Bernstein  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Color Categorization in Nanumea, A
Polynesian Atoll Society
Keith  S.  Chambers  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 65
Courtship among the Kurafi of Malaita; An
Ethnography of Speaking Approach
David Welchman Gegeo & Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo . . 98
Bigman of Chief? Knowledge and Political
Process on Tanna
Lamont Lindstrom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
The Institutional Context of the Arts of Oceania:
with Special Reference to Micronesia
Karen L. Nero & Nelson H.H. Graburn . . . . . . 147
Development or Dependency: American Policy
in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Larry W. Mayo .160
Demand and Incentives to Produce in a
Traditional Society
James G. Peoples.                              171