A Papuan Plutocracy : Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island.

The financial crisis has shown how money can become an instrument for power and greed. The nature of money and financial institutions has again become issues of importance. This will also be the case in anthropology. John Liep's long awaited monograph on Rossel Island in Papua New Guinea analyz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liep, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Shell money > Papua New Guinea > Rossel Island.
Social classes > Papua New Guinea > Rossel Island.
Monnaie de coquillage > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Rossel.
Classes sociales > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Rossel.
HISTORY > Oceania.
Manners and customs
Shell money
Social classes
Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea > Rossel Island
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. Massim transformations
  • The setting. Rossel Island ; Frameworks of practice ; Dimensions of power ; Economic domains
  • Ranked exchange. Shell money and valuables ; The cycle of social reproduction ; The pig feast ; The remaining forms of payment ; The rules and practice of ranked exchange
  • Epilogue. A Papuan plutocracy.

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