Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving by Annette B. Weiner

Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving

Annette B. Weiner

264 pages hardcover 1992

3 editions

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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 Pa...

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