Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-while-giving

by Weiner (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $32.98

  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.