Islanderers of the South - Grijp, Paul van der
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Islanders of the South is an ethnography of the kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. This is the first book to examine the interplay of Polynesian and Western ideas within contemporary social and economic practices, not from the point of view of Tongan aristocracy, but from that of the common people.

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Islanders of the South is an ethnography of the kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. This is the first book to examine the interplay of Polynesian and Western ideas within contemporary social and economic practices, not from the point of view of Tongan aristocracy, but from that of the common people.
Autorenporträt
Paul van der Grijp (1952) studied anthropology at the University of Nijmegen and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He has done extensive fieldwork in several Polynesian societies. As a senior researcher fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences he is currently working at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of Utrecht University and at the Center for Pacific Studies in Nijmegen.