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Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands / Robert J. Foster.
- Title
- Social reproduction and history in Melanesia : mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands / Robert J. Foster.
- Author
- Foster, Robert John, 1957-
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DU740.42 .F67 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxii, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 96
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 96.
- Subject
- Note
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1988.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0521480302 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^^94030846^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library