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Social reproduction and history in Melanesia: mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands /


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Social reproduction and history in Melanesia: mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands /

Author

Foster, Robert John,

Series

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology;

Volume

96

Year of Publication

1995.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press,

City of Publication

Cambridge; New York

Pages

315

Language

en

ISBN

0521480302

ARI Id

1675033967678


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1. Introduction: history, alterity, and a new (Melanesian) anthropology
I. Mortuary rites as kastam. 2. Commoditization and the emergence of kastam. 3. Kastam, bisnis, and matriliny
II. Mortuary rites as "finishing" and "replacing" the dead. 4. Finishing the dead: an outline of Tangan mortuary feasts and exchanges. 5. Replacing the dead: identical exchange and lineage succession. 6. Performing lineage succession: feast giving and value-creation. 7. Performing lineage succession: transformative exchange and the power of mortuary rites
III. Toward comparative historical ethnography. 8. Social reproduction and kastam in comparative perspective.
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