The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society
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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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society
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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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780822312703 |
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Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Publication date: | 10/13/1992 |
Series: | Henry Louis Morgan Lecture Series |
Edition description: | Revised ed. |
Pages: | 354 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d) |
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