Machine generated contents note: pt. I Things and People -- Exercise 1 Shaping Behavior -- ch. 1 Meaning and Property -- Practicum 1 Securing Indigenous Rights -- pt. II Things and Places -- Exercise 2 Creating Local Value -- ch. 2 A Sense of Place -- Practicum 2 Valuing Indigenous Property -- pt. III Things Across Cultures -- Exercise 3 Giving and Receiving -- ch. 3 Exchange and Value -- Practicum 3 Responding to Global Forces, or Kula International -- pt. IV Realizing Ritual -- Exercise 4 Changing Paradigms -- ch. 4 Why Animism Matters -- Practicum 4 Assessing Cognitive Diversity
Summary
Napier demonstrates how non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can redress the ills of contemporary economic systems in which our relationship to material things transforms animate elements of social life into inanimate commodities. Such processes separate objects from domains of deep meaning and release individuals from the moral relationships on which feelings of attachment, community responsibility, and a sense of place depend
