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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society

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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society - Munn, Nancy D
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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, ...

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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society 1992, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9780822312703

Revised edition

Trade paperback