Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving
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Main Author: Weiner, Annette B. 1933-1997 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©1992
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Inalienable Possessions: The Forgotten Dimension -- - Reconfiguring Exchange Theory: The Maori Hau -- - The Sibling Incest Taboo: Polynesian Cloth and Reproduction -- - The Defeat of Hierarchy: Cosmological Authentication in Australia and New Guinea Bones and Stones -- - Kula: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving -- - Afterword: The Challenge of Inalienable Possessions
Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, Annette Weiner investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Reciprocity, she says, is only the superficial aspect of exchange, which overlays much more politically powerful strategies of "keeping-while-giving."The
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 232 pages)
ISBN:0520076036
0520076044
0520911806
0585108552
1282356062
9780520911802
9780585108551
9781282356061

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