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

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

Munn, Nancy D.

Paperback

Series: Henry Louis Morgan Lecture Series

Native American History

ISBN10: 0822312700
ISBN13: 9780822312703
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Oct 13 1992
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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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