Guardians of Marovo Lagoon - Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia

In Hviding's case, the gap between the social and natural sciences is bridged as he deftly draws on conceptual frameworks from social and cultural anthropology, cultural ecology, history, and marine biology. As he tells the story of the people of Marovo Lagoon in New Georgia in the western Solomon Islands, his focus is on customary marine tenure, a topic that has been surprisingly neglected by most anthropologists working in the Pacific.

About the author

“This is perhaps the best monograph on how Pacific islanders relate to their marine resources since Robert Johannes’s Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Melanesia (1981), and it stands as a major contribution to the study of indigenous marine tenure systems that should be required reading for everyone concerned with the issue of allocating marine resources.” —American Anthropologist

Product details

• Authors: Edvard Hviding
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1996
• EAN: 9780824816643
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-1664-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 989 g
• Series: Pacific Islands Monographs; Pacific Islands Monograph Series; Pacific Islands Monograph Series; Pacific Islands Monograph
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories