Inalienable possessions the paradox of keeping-while-giving /

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 Aborigin...

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Main Author: Weiner, Annette B., 1933-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations.
Subjects:
Ceremonial exchange -- Oceania.
Women -- Oceania -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Oceania -- Social conditions.
Economic anthropology -- Oceania -- Methodology.
Feminist anthropology -- Oceania.
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