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The Melanesians

Studies in Their Anthropology and Folk-Lore

by R. H. Codrington

A study by an Anglican missionary of the peoples of the Banks Islands, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, covering social organisation, religion, magic and stories. Codrington's description of mana as a supernatural power at work in people and things entered general anthropological theory. It remains a valuable early ethnographic source.

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