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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiner, Annette B., 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Temas:
Ceremonial exchange > Oceania.
Women > Oceania > Economic conditions.
Women > Oceania > Social conditions.
Economic anthropology > Oceania > Methodology.
Feminist anthropology > Oceania.
Échange cérémoniel > Océanie.
Femmes > Océanie > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > Océanie > Conditions sociales.
Anthropologie économique > Océanie > Méthodologie.
Féminisme et anthropologie > Océanie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ceremonial exchange.
Economic anthropology > Methodology.
Feminist anthropology.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Tausch
Ökonomische Anthropologie
Sociale ruil.
Vrouwen.
Sociedades primitivas (aspectos econômicos)
Antropologia econômica.
Mulheres (condições econômicas)
Anthropologie économique > Océanie.
Don > Anthropologie.
Tausch.
Ökonomische Anthropologie.
Oceania.
Ozeanien
Océanie > Moeurs et coutumes.
Ozeanien.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 Aborigine groups, Annette Weiner investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Reciprocity, she says, is only the superficial aspect of exchange, which overlays much more politically powerful strategies of "keeping-while-giving."The
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
ISBN:9780520911802
0520911806
0585108552
9780585108551

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