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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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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
  • Burial > history
  • Ceremonial exchange > Papua New Guinea
  • Funeral Rites > history
  • Tanga (Papua New Guinean people)
  • Tanga (Papua New Guinean people) > Funeral customs and rites
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