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Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology)
Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies - Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology
Author: Andrew Strathern
Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which have been studied intensively by numerous anthropologists since the 1950s, have been widely described as egalitarian and as characterised by achieved leadership. The Melanesian 'big-man' system, in which men achieve social status largely by their man...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521107846
ISBN-10: 0521107849
Publication Date: 11/12/2009
Pages: 204
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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