Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Foreword by Marilyn Strathern; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Concepts; I. The competing theories; II. A framework of analysis; III. Gifts and commodities: Circulation; IV. Gifts and commodities: Reproduction; V. Traditional and modern goods: A critique; Part Two: Theory; VI. The transformation of gifts into commodities in colonial Papua New Guinea; VII. The transformation of commodities into gifts in colonial Papua New Guinea; Conclusion.
  • Mathematical appendix: A matrix approach to the calculusof kinship relationsReferences; Index.