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Studying kinship is like vitamins for anthropologists: it's always beneficial and we don't get enough. This book provides strong and useful accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship in the Pacific." · Matt Tomlinson, Australian National University "A timely and worthwhile book. The introduction is compelling and contemporary, and the chapters in the main are very well written, clear, interesting, and suggestive ... [the] enlightening discussion of ritual and learning in childhood, and what that implies for how people come to 'know' about kin ... and about the significance and meaning of [kinship] practices, is excellent." · James Leach, Researcher CNRS, CREDO Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as "knowledge that counts." It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, contributors share an understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical links provide for close and useful comparison. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as "knowledge that counts." It is with this observation that the volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, contributors share an understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical links provide for close and useful comparison. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior Living Kinship in the Pacific 3 Contents 5 Figures and Tables 7 Introduction Kinship in the Pacific as Knowledge that Counts 9 1 The Mutual Implication of Kinship and Chiefship in Fiji 23 2 Pigs for Money 44 3 Fijian Kinship 68 4 Gendered Sides and Ritual Moieties 95 5 Tongan Kinship Terminology and Social Stratification 115 6 ‘I Suffered When My Sister Gave Birth’ 136 7 The Vasu Position and the Sister’s Mana 151 8 ‘Sister or Wife, You’ve Got to Choose’ 174 9 The Sister’s Return 194 10 How Would We Have Got Here if Our Paternal Grandmother Had Not Existed? 215 11 How Ritual Articulates Kinship 250 Notes on Contributors 265 Index 269