| Description |
1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Vocabulary of Exchanges -- Orokaiva -- 'Are' Are -- Tanebar-Evav -- Iqar'iyen -- 2 The Exchanges of Each Society Considered as a Whole -- I Orokaiva -- Relations with the spirits -- The pondo for the decoration of children -- Initiation exchanges -- Marriage exchanges -- Funeral exchanges -- II 'Are' are -- The ascending monetary prestations of the funeral feast -- The ascending monetary prestations of the 'big man's' feast -- The monetary prestation of the 'killer's' feast |
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The pigs, taros, and two associated monetary prestations of the funeral feast -- The pigs, taros, and associated monetary prestations of the marriage feast -- III Tanebar-Evav -- Marriage exchanges -- Exchanges for the rebirth of society -- IV Iqar'iyen -- Exchanges in the system of honour -- Exchanges and the relation between honour and baraka -- 3 Exchanges, Wholes, Comparison -- Exchanges -- The subordinated place of subjects -- The relational value of objects -- Exchanges and values -- Exchanging women or transforming the dead -- The Hierarchy of Values -- The relation with the whole |
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Values and the hierarchy of levels -- The living and the dead -- Modes of encompassing the contrary -- Toward a comparison of holistic societies -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
de Coppet, Daniel
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Iteanu, Andre
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Jamous, Raymond
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| ISBN |
9781000323337 |
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1000323331 |
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