This new edition of the critically acclaimed The Fame of Gawa—originally published in 1986—makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. The Fame of Gawa is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Integrating various aspects of the study of society and culture--including the sociocultural construction of space and time, self-other relations and the body, and moral and political problems of hierarchy and equality—Nancy D. Munn shows that it is through achieving fame in the wider inter-island world that the Gawan community asserts its own internal viablity.
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"This is an almost ideal realisation of the twin aims of anthropology and ethnographic writing... This is not just a book about a tiny island, and not just a book for Melanesianists. It coordinates a number of contemporary issues in anthropology." Marilyn Strathern, Man "At once both virtuoso ethnography and a brilliant effort at systematic conceptualization in social theory." George Marcus, Choice "The Fame of Gawa will sit comfortably on the shelf alongside--or perhaps even replace--Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific as a classic of anthropology... [Munn's book] ... masterfully integrates cultural analysis with detailed ethnography." Miriam Kahn, American Anthropologist
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Nancy D. Munn is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
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intersubjective spacetime, witch canoe, own dala, yam piles, dala groups, kitomu shells, kula shell exchange, owning dala, kula shells, kula competition, nodal couple, kula speech, other dala, kula circulation, kula trip, kula man, affinal side, pandanus streamer, food transmission, kula men, shell circulation, spatiotemporal expansion, spatiotemporal level, witch persona, canoe cycle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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intersubjective spacetime, witch canoe, own dala, yam piles, dala groups, kitomu shells, kula shell exchange, owning dala, kula shells, kula competition, nodal couple, kula speech, other dala, kula circulation, kula trip, kula man, affinal side, pandanus streamer, food transmission, kula men, shell circulation, spatiotemporal expansion, spatiotemporal level, witch persona, canoe cycle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange by Jerry W. Leach on 5 pages
- Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography) by Mary Douglas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theory of Social Structure by S. F. Nadel in Back Matter
- Meaning in Culture (International Library of Anthropology) by F. Allan Hanson in Back Matter
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- Consumer Society and the Post-modern City by David B Clarke in Back Matter
- Conceptualizing Society (European Association of Social Anthropologists) by Adam Kuper on page 103
- Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local (ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge) by Daniel Miller on page 132
- Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World of Before and After by Bruce M. Knauft in Back Matter
- Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building by Laura A. Ring in Back Matter
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