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THE great interest held by the Lau islands for the ethnologist lies in the fact that they are situated between Fiji and Tonga, on the border where Melanesia and Polynesia meet. They had been subjected, therefore, to different impacts, both physical and cultural, even before the advent of Western civilization. For this reason the author of a recent paper* chose a group of islands in southern Lau which owing to its isolation and lack of valuable natural resources had been left comparatively untouched by Western influences, and on one of these, Kambara, she lived for five months making an intensive study of its culture. Owing to lack of time she was unable to devote much attention to material culture and concentrated rather on the social system as being more evanescent.
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ETHNOLOGY OF THE LAU ISLANDS, FIJI. Nature 148, 201 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148201a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148201a0