The Fame of Gawa
€30.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780822312703 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy D. Munn |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.480 |
| Publishing Date | 13/10/1992 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €29.15 |
| Tax | €1.75 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €30.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
This new edition of the critically acclaimed The Fame of Gawa-originally published in 1986-makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. The Fame of Gawa is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Integrating various aspects of the study of society and culture--including the sociocultural construction of space and time, self-other relations and the body, and moral and political problems of hierarchy and equality-Nancy D. Munn shows that it is through achieving fame in the wider inter-island world that the Gawan community asserts its own internal viablity.