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Death rituals and life in the societies of the Kula Ring / edited by Frederick H. Damon and Roy Wagner.

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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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Additional Authors
  • Damon, Frederick H.
  • Wagner, Roy, 1938-2018
Description
vi, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Massim (Papua New Guinean people) > Funeral customs and rites
  • Kula exchange
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies > Milne Bay
  • Milne Bay (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs
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
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