Wagering the Land
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 expand section1  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART I  PREWAR BUGUIAS
 expand section2  Food, Fuel, and Fiber:  Human Environmental Relations in Prewar Buguias
 expand section3  Social Relations:  Power and Labor
 collapse section4  Religion:  The Role of the Ancestors
 •Introduction
 expand sectionGods and Spirits
 expand sectionPrestige Feasts in Prewar Buguias
 expand sectionStatus Display
 collapse sectionThe Ideology of Ritual Performance
 •The Luck of the Ancestors
 •Ritual and Power in Human Society
 •The Tong Tongan Jural System
 •Grounds for Belief
 •The Economics of Ritual Expenditure
 •Social Stratification and Religious Expense
 •Power and Religion Reconsidered
 expand section5  Commercial and Political Relations
 expand sectionInterregnum:  The War

 collapse sectionPART II  VITALITY AND VULNERABILITY:  FLUCTUATIONS IN THE POSTWAR ECONOMY, 1946–1986
 •Introduction
 expand section6  The Establishment of Commercial Vegetable Agriculture
 expand section7  The Sociology and Economics of Vegetable Production, 1946–1972
 expand section8  Economic and Ecological Crisis
 expand section9  Social Conflict and Political Struggle
 expand section10  Religion in Modern Buguias
 expand section11  Conclusion:  Understanding Buguias's Aberrant Development

 expand sectionNotes
  GLOSSARY
 expand sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX
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