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A Guadalcanal Society: The Kaoka Speakers
A Guadalcanal Society The Kaoka Speakers Author:Ian Hogbin A tropical island in the Solomon Island chain, Guadalcanal is 85 X 30 miles and rises to 8,000 feet high. Hot and wet, it is best known to the world as the setting of the first major land battle won by U.S. marines over the Japanese during six long months in 1942-1943. — This anthropological study of lowland horticulturalists was conducted during... more » 1927-1945, mainly in 1933. The chapters deal with social structure, sex & marriage, rearing a family, getting a living, conflict, the headman, religion, and "recent"[1945]changes.[the people studied were neither bombed nor shot, but the adult males were conscripted into the U.S. labor corps.]« less