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Incest Prohibitions in Micronesia and Polynesia

Special Issue of Journal of the Polynesian Society 85(2)

1976

edited by

Judith Huntsman
Mervyn McLean

from 1971 Symposium organized by Vern Carroll

The Meaning of Incest
David M. Schneider
 
Incest as Cannibalism: The Yapese Analysis
David Labby
 
Incest and Exogamy on Namoluk Atoll
Mac Marshall
 
Ponapean Conceptions of Incest
J. L. Fischer, Roger Ward, and Martha Ward
 
Incest and Exogamy: A Comparative Study of Two Marshallese Populations
Robert C. Kiste and Michael A. Rynkiewich
 
'Eating Blood'" Tahitian Concepts of Incest
Antony Hooper
 
Ungrammatical "Love" on Bellona
Torben Monberg
 
The 'Desecration' of Tokelau Kinship
Judith Huntsman and Antony Hooper
 
Incest Prohibitions and the Logic of Power in Samoa
Bradd Shore