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Structure and process in a Melanesian societyBook 1991 • Carrier, Achsah H. & Carrier, James G.
Manus • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a thorough account of gift exchange among the Manus of Ponum Island. The Carriers take a position between structuralists and processualists and argue that gift-giving is based on an inherent structural logic, i.e., sets of genealogical relati...Wage, trade, and exchange in MelanesiaBook 1989 • Carrier, James G. & Carrier, Achsah H.
Manus • Oceania > Melanesia
Ponam is a small island off the north coast of Manus Island, Papua, New Guinea. In the late 1970s, the inhabitants of this island found a relatively prosperous economic niche for themselves, in contrast to the standards of many villages in Papua, New...