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

by Edvard Hviding

"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 Pacific Islands Monograph Series...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824816641
• ISBN13: 9780824816643
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"