Competition in Palau

McKnight, Robert Kellogg (1960). Competition in Palau (Thesis). Ohio State University.

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Abstract: Largely through the research undertaken toward the last named study, the writer assembled the materials for the following presen tation, and arrived at the conviction that the topic of competition in Palau deserved specific study. This conviction rests on theore tical and practical bases. The social significance of interpersonal and intergroup competition, it seems to the writer, has been under played to the point that an image of "spontaneous cooperation" colors much of our thinking about primitive societies. From the practical point of view, in so far as this image is expressed in the approach of the administrator in a society such as Palau, it can be quite misleading. Perhaps the need to attend to competitive forms is restricted to Palauan society, or to the general cultural eurea. Certainly many of the specific forms which competitive behavior has taken in Palau are distinctive. The wider, theoretical value of this study, then, would be in pointing out discrepancies in emy simple, or single image of primitive society...

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