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Chicago.: University of Chicago Press.. 1971.. 362pp, references, index, dustjacket trifle worn, signature of a prior owner front free endpaper. "Arriving on the shores of Rambi Island, Fiji, in 1945, the Banaban community of Ocean Island in the Central Pacific was faced with the problem of rebuilding a society and reconstituting a culture. Their home island was being gnawed away by phosphate mining. Since 1900, when the mining began, tha Banabans had been drawn into a social field which included imported religious, commerical, and administrative personnel who eventually outnumbered them and were superordinate to them in power. Within this field, Banaban society and culture was transformed, and the move to a new homeland permitted the people to test out creatively the new ideas they had developed. " Publisher's description. .