TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiner,Annette B.
TI  - Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving 
SN  - 9780520911802
AV  - GN662 .W45 1992eb
U1  - 305.420995 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Ceremonial exchange
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Women
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Feminist anthropology
KW  - �Echange c�er�emoniel
KW  - Oc�eanie
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Conditions �economiques
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Anthropologie �economique
KW  - M�ethodologie
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Tausch
KW  - gnd
KW  - �Okonomische Anthropologie
KW  - Sociale ruil
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Sociedades primitivas (aspectos econ�omicos)
KW  - larpcal
KW  - Antropologia econ�omica
KW  - Mulheres (condi�c�oes econ�omicas)
KW  - ram
KW  - Don
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - Ozeanien
KW  - Moeurs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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