Download or read book Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society written by Lamont Lindstrom and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindstrom (anthropology, U. of Tulsa) is the first ethnologist to apply a comprehensive Foucaultian perspective to a Pacific (Melanesian) society, in order to investigate how the people of Tanna create, exchange, and consume knowledge. He has constructed a conversational model of society from the many disparate voices of the island. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR