Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies
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Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which have been studied intensively by numerous anthropologists since the 1950s, have been widely described as egalitarian and as characterised by achieved leadership. The Melanesian 'big-man' system, in which men achieve social status largely by their manipulation of wealth in elaborate structures of ceremonial exchange, has become an established anthropological...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521107849
ISBN13:9780521107846
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.58 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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