Inalienable possessions the paradox of keeping-while-giving
Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigin...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c1992
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010650109708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Inalienable possessions : the forgotten dimension. - Reconfiguring exchange theory : the Maori Hau. - The sibling incest taboo : Polynesian cloth and reproduction. - The defeat of hierarchy : cosmological authentication in Australia and New Guinea bones and stones. - Kula : the paradox of keeping-while-giving
