The fame of Gawa : a symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society
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The fame of Gawa : a symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society
Duke University Press, 1992, c1986
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Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986. (The Lewis Henry Morgan lecture ; 1976)
Revision and expansion of the author's lectures originally given at the University of Rochester on Nov. 2, 4, 9, and 11, 1976
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325) and index
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This new edition of the critically acclaimed The Fame of Gawa-originally published in 1986-makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. The Fame of Gawa is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Integrating various aspects of the study of society and culture--including the sociocultural construction of space and time, self-other relations and the body, and moral and political problems of hierarchy and equality-Nancy D. Munn shows that it is through achieving fame in the wider inter-island world that the Gawan community asserts its own internal viablity.
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