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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Afterword: The Challenge of Inalienable Possessions.