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Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving
Annette B. Weiner
Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving
Annette B. Weiner
Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver.
264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 13, 1992 |
ISBN13 | 9780520076044 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 264 |
Dimensions | 155 × 227 × 15 mm · 414 g |
Language | English |