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The Fame of Gawa
Nancy D. Munn
其他書名
A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society
出版Duke University Press, 1992
主題History / Social HistoryPhilosophy / Ethics & Moral PhilosophySocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American StudiesSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN97808223127030822312700
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jYvxELRGwmYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.