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Inalienable possessions : the paradox of keeping-while-giving / Annette B. Weiner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 232 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911802
  • 0520911806
  • 0585108552
  • 9780585108551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inalienable possessionsDDC classification:
  • 305.42/0995 20
LOC classification:
  • GN662
Other classification:
  • 73.34
  • 73.30
  • LB 58000
  • LC 24690
  • 6,23
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and index.

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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.

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