Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges (Explorations in Anthropology)

by RaymondJamous (Editor), Danielde Coppet (Editor), Cecile Barraud (Editor), Andre Iteanu (Editor), StephenJ.Suffern (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $192.03

  Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. This title shows that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values.