Social organization and cultural aesthetics essays in honor of William H. Davenport - Donner, William Wilkinson; Flanagan, James G. 1949- (Lanham, Maryland University Press of America, Inc., 1997)
W. H. Davenport: principal works -- Missionary ventures in Hawaii: 19th century wives, 20th century social workers / Judith Modell -- Empowered women / Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi -- Exchanging sisters is not a game / James G. Flanagan -- Kinship and social organization: traditional issues in the study of modernity / William W. Donner -- Resepsi: Dou Donggo wedding receptions as cultural critique / Peter Just -- Chiefs who fall down and get washed out to sea: the limitation of museum objects in the representation of ethnographic reality / Miriam Kahn -- Affect and paradox in museum exhibits / Peter H. Welsh.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Davenport, William H. -- 1922-2004.; Ethnology; Ethnology -- Oceania; Oceania -- Social life and customs