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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Pomponio, A., & Munn, N. D.
- Venue
- Ethnohistory
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1989
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 217
- ISSN
- 0014-1801 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2016568739
- Cited by
- 719
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 39.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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