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portada The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society: Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua new Guinea) Society
Type
Physical Book
Year
1992
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
Weight
1.25
ISBN
9780822312703
ISBN13
9780822312703

The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society: Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua new Guinea) Society

Nancy D. Munn (Author) · Duke University Press · Paperback

The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society: Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua new Guinea) Society - Nancy D. Munn

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Synopsis "The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society: Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua new Guinea) Society"

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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