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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Munn, Nancy D
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| Publisher: |
Duke University Press
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| Date: |
10/13/1992
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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