Inalienable Possessions The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving

Name: Inalienable Possessions The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving
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ISBN: 9780520076044

ISBN-10: 0520076044

ISBN-13: 9780520076044

Edition: 1994

Authors: Annette B. Weiner

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Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, Annette Weiner investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Reciprocity, she says, is only the superficial aspect of exchange, which overlays much more politically powerful strategies of "keeping-while-giving." The idea of keeping-while-giving places women at the heart of the political process, however much that…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/13/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



Inalienable Possessions: The Forgotten Dimension



Reconfiguring Exchange Theory: The Maori Hau



The Sibling Incest Taboo: Polynesian Cloth and Reproduction



The Defeat of Hierarchy: Cosmological Authentication in Australia and New Guinea Bones and Stones



Kula: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving


Afterword: The Challenge of Inalienable Possessions


Notes


Bibliography


Index