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Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia : Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia Mortuary Ritual Gift Exchange and Custom in the Tanga Islands - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Robert John Foster
This study describes and interprets the ritual activity that follows upon death in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea. Robert J. Foster shows how the performance of large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges both commemorate the dead and regenerate the social relations of the living. He places the rites in an historical context by demonstratin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521483322
ISBN-10: 0521483328
Publication Date: 5/26/1995
Pages: 315
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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