Introduction -- Objects, Exchange, Anthropology -- The Permutations of Debt: Exchange Systems in the Pacific -- The Indigenous Appropriation of European Things -- The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things -- The Discovery of the Gift: Exchange and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific
Summary
The author takes up issues central to modern anthropology. In so doing he raises doubts about any simple "us / them" dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders, challenging the preoccupation of anthropology with cultural differences by stressing the shared history of colonial entanglement
Analysis
Culture
Oceania
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-255) and index
Notes
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