Firth 1940
Firth, Raymond. 1940. The analysis of mana: an empirical approach. Journal of the Polynesian Society 49. 483–510. (repeated in Tikopia ritual and belief 1967:174–212).
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- Tikopia: mana efficacious efficacious power of extraordinary non-physical quality power of extraordinary non-physical quality, trad. believed derived from gods and ancestors (essentially pragmatic in being demonstrated only by concrete results); while trad. associated with chiefs, can be attributed to other persons, esp. when of rank as indicated by special powers e.g. in healing or predication thunder thunder trad. believed to be produced by gods as sign of power