Tikopia-English Dictionary

by Raymond Firth

A small island in the Solomon Islands group, Tikopia is in Melanesia but its culture and language are Polynesian. This comprehensive dictionary with its copious examples is a useful contribution to comparative linguistics.

662 pages, Paperback

Published May 23, 1985

About the author

Sir Raymond William Firth CNZM FRAI FBA was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies (social organization) is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society (social structure). He was a long serving professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, and is considered to have singlehandedly created a form of British economic anthropology.