Inalienable possessions : the paradox of keeping-while-giving / Annette B. Weiner.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520911802
- 0520911806
- 0585108552
- 9780585108551
- Ceremonial exchange -- Oceania
- Women -- Oceania -- Economic conditions
- Women -- Oceania -- Social conditions
- Economic anthropology -- Oceania -- Methodology
- Feminist anthropology -- Oceania
- �Echange c�er�emoniel -- Oc�eanie
- Femmes -- Oc�eanie -- Conditions �economiques
- Femmes -- Oc�eanie -- Conditions sociales
- Anthropologie �economique -- Oc�eanie -- M�ethodologie
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Ceremonial exchange
- Economic anthropology -- Methodology
- Feminist anthropology
- Women -- Economic conditions
- Women -- Social conditions
- Oceania
- Tausch
- �Okonomische Anthropologie
- Ozeanien
- Sociale ruil
- Vrouwen
- Sociedades primitivas (aspectos econ�omicos)
- Antropologia econ�omica
- Mulheres (condi�c�oes econ�omicas)
- Femmes -- Oc�eanie -- Conditions sociales
- Femmes -- Oc�eanie -- Conditions �economiques
- �Echange c�er�emoniel -- Oc�eanie
- Anthropologie �economique -- Oc�eanie
- Don -- Anthropologie
- Oc�eanie -- Moeurs et coutumes
- Feminist anthropology
- 305.420995
- GN662 .W45 1992eb
- 73.34
- 73.30
- LB 58000
- LC 24690
- 6,23
- 6,23.
- 73.30.
- 73.34.
- LB 58000.
- LC 24690.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Print version record.
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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