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Chieftainship, kula and trade in Massim prehistoryessay 1983 • Irwin, Geoffrey J.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This article consists of three parts. The first of these deals with '…a spatial analysis of ethnographic data from the Trobriand Islands and advances another theory on the origins of chieftainship' (p. 29). Part two describes locational factors withi...