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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This book is about the songs of a Western Pacific people, the Tikopia, who not so long ago lived entirely on a small remote island of the Solomons. Their songs vary from lively dance chants to mournful funeral laments. All are novel to western ears. The book provides about 100 examples, in text and translation. It also discusses the relation of the songs to the social life of the people, and it includes an analysis of the structure of their music, by Mervyn McLean, a noted musicologist.

Folk poetry, Tikopia --- Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) --- Folk poetry, Tikopia. --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- 78.37 --- 78.41.2 --- Folk poetry, Tikopia - History and criticism. --- Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) - Social life and customs. --- Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) - Rites and ceremonies. --- Tikopia folk poetry --- Tikopia poetry --- Tikopians --- Tucopia (Solomon Islands people) --- Ethnology --- Polynesians