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Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia

Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia

Foster, Robert John

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 96

Australia & OceaniaAnthropology

ISBN10: 0521483328
ISBN13: 9780521483322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 27 1995
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
This study describes and interprets the ritual activity that follows upon death in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea. Robert J. Foster shows how the performance of large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges both commemorate the dead and regenerate the social relations of the living. He places the rites in an historical context by demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy has allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as customary in opposition to the new and foreign practices of business.

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