PART Ⅰ． INTRODUCTION 1
Ⅰ．Outline of Culture in Malekula 3
Ⅱ．The Small Islands and Vao 24
PART Ⅱ． SOCIAL ORGANISATION AND KINSHIP 51
Ⅲ．Overt Social Organisation 53
Ⅳ．Origin of the Six Villages and Foundation of the Four Quarters of Pete-hul 78
Ⅴ．Kinship I．The Basic Structure of Class Systems in Australia and Melanesia 96
Ⅵ．Kinship II．Vao 126
Ⅶ．Birth and Adoption 173
Ⅷ．Marriage and Divorce 191
PART Ⅲ． RITUAL LIFE 203
Ⅸ．Mythology 205
Ⅹ．Pigs 240
Ⅺ The Maki：General Introduction 270
Ⅻ．The Maki：Gongs，Songs，Dances 310
ⅩⅢ．Gong-Raising 345
ⅩⅣ．Low Maki(Ramben) 362
ⅩⅤ．High Maki(Maki Ru) 409
ⅩⅥ．Maki for the Erection of a Ghamal or Lodge；Women＇s Maki 439
ⅩⅦ．Canoes 455
ⅩⅧ．Initiation：General 473
ⅩⅨ．Initiation into Manhood on Vao 495
ⅩⅩ．The Pilgrimage to Oba．(Initiation into Sex) 523
ⅩⅪ．Mortuary Rites 529
ⅩⅫ．The Submergence of Tolamp 566
ⅩⅩⅢ．Warfare，Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice 588
ⅩⅩⅣ．Magic 628
ⅩⅩⅤ．Sand-Tracings from Vao and Atchin 649
PART Ⅳ． GENERAL SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC GRADED SOCIETY COMPLEX IN THE NEW HEBRIDES AND BANKS ISLANDS 685
ⅩⅩⅥ．Distribution，Monuments and Ranks 687
ⅩⅩⅦ．The Kinship Element in the Graded Society 720
ⅩⅩⅧ．Some Symbolic Aspects of the Rite 732
APPENDIX Ⅰ．Population and Male Names 745
APPENDIX Ⅱ．Note on some Ritually important Birds，by Tom Harrisson 751
LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED 754
GLOSSARY 759
INDEX 777