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Death rituals and life in the societies of the Kula Ring / edited by Frederick H. Damon and Roy Wagner.
- Title
- Death rituals and life in the societies of the Kula Ring / edited by Frederick H. Damon and Roy Wagner.
- Publication
- DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 1989.
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- Description
- vi, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 275-280.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Frederick H. Damon -- To eat for the dead : Kaduwagan mortuary events / Susan P. Montague -- A Vakutan mortuary cycle / Shirley Campbell -- The Muyuw Lo'un and the end of marriage / Frederick H. Damon -- Death and kinship in Molima / Ann Chowning -- The triumph of the Susu : mortuary exchanges on Tubetube / Martha Mcintyre -- Death and matrilineal reincorporation on Normanby Island / Carl Thune -- "Eating the dead" : mortuary transactions in Bwaidoka, Goodenough Island / Michael W. Young -- Death and exchange : mortuary ritual on Vanatinai (Sudest Island) / Maria Lepowsky -- The day of reckoning on Rossel Island / John Liep -- Conclusion : the exchange context of the Kula / Roy Wagner.
- ISBN
- 087580151X (alk. paper)
- 0875805469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^89008611^
- OCLC
- 19775995
- SCSB-10110765
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library