The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society (Henry Louis Morgan Lecture Series)

Munn, Nancy D.

ISBN 10: 0822312700 / ISBN 13: 9780822312703

Verlag: Duke University Press Books, 1992

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00102022918

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Nancy D. Munn is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value ...
Verlag: Duke University Press Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good