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The Rope of Moka
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Andrew Strathern
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In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the Europeans by a vigorous development of moka, a competitive cer
The Rope of Moka
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Andrew J. Strathern
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher:

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The Rope of Moka. Big-men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen, New Guinea
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Andrew Strathern
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The Question of the Gift
Language: en
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Authors: Mark Osteen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including ant
The Gender of the Gift
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: Marilyn Strathern
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and femini