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1937 • 442 citations

Social Stratification in Polynesia

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1961 • 396 citations

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1964 • 376 citations

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1962 • 262 citations

Primitive Polynesian Economy.

1939 • 224 citations

The trumpet shall sound

1957 • 190 citations

We, the Tikopia

1957 • 183 citations

Kapauku Papuans and their law

1958 • 171 citations

Co-Operation and Competition among Primitive Peoples

1937 • 153 citations

A Solomon Island Society

1955 • 132 citations

Mambu: A Melanesian Millennium

1960 • 122 citations

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1935 • 122 citations

NAMA CULT OF THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, NEW GUINEA

1952 • 118 citations

The native culture in the Marquesas

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Leadership and Consensus in a New Guinea Society

1959 • 106 citations

The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea

1928 • 103 citations

THE ENGA OF THE NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS

1958 • 92 citations

Both Sides of Buka Passage

1935 • 81 citations

Competitive Leadership in Trobriand Political Organization

1960 • 72 citations

Kinship in the Admiralty Islands

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1934 • 69 citations

POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE MOKA CEREMONIAL EXCHANGE SYSTEM AMONG THE KYAKA PEOPLE OF THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA1

1960 • 62 citations

THE ABELAM TRIBE, SEPIK DISTRICT, NEW GUINEA A PRELIMINARY REPORT

1941 • 56 citations

The Classification of Corporate Unilineal Descent Groups

1957 • 55 citations

Ethnology of Mangareva

1984 • 54 citations

Status Rivalry and Cultural Evolution in Polynesia¹

1955 • 53 citations

LOCAL GROUPING IN MELANESIA

1953 • 52 citations

LAW AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE ABELAM TRIBE, NEW GUINEA

1941 • 48 citations

Oceania and the problem of controls in the study of cultural and human evolution

1957 • 44 citations

The Papuas of Waropen

1957 • 41 citations

The diversions of a prime minister

1968 • 40 citations

The position of the Polynesian languages within the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family

1959 • 40 citations

History and culture in the Society Islands

1930 • 35 citations

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The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

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The Mountain Arapesh. I. An Importing Culture.

1940 • 26 citations

Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium

1963 • 25 citations

The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

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REPORT ON RESEARCH IN MANAM ISLAND, MANDATED TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA

1934 • 21 citations

Chimbu Tribes: Political Organization in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea

1960 • 20 citations

Transformation Scene--The Changing Culture of a New Guinea Village

1952 • 19 citations

The Papuas of Waropen

1957 • 18 citations

Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands

1927 • 17 citations

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY, NEW GUINEA

1946 • 15 citations

THE KAPAUKU PAPUANS AND THEIR KINSHIP ORGANIZATION¹

1960 • 15 citations

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1934 • 13 citations

Enga Political Organization. A Preliminary Description.1

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1938 • 12 citations

THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE NGARAWAPUM

1950 • 12 citations

Polynesian Cultural Distributions in New Perspective

1959 • 11 citations

THE HILL PEOPLE OF NORTH‐EASTERN GUADALCANAL

1937 • 8 citations

An importing culture

1938 • 4 citations