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Kula Valuables: The problem of value and the production of names
L'homme : revue française d'anthropologie / publiée par l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales avec le concours du Centre national de la recherche scientifique • 162 • Published In 2002 • Pages: 107-136
By: Damon, Frederick H..
Abstract
In this article the author shows how the production, circulation, and individual possession of [n]kula[/n] valuables generates the major form of wealth for the people of Muyuw Island. The first part, addressing Marxist reformulation of exchange theory, describes the forms of [n]kula[/n] circulation. The second part discusses the metonymic and metaphoric transformations by persons naming valuables and in turn being named as the result of their circulation through the Massim region.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2015
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle
- Field Date
- 1973-1975, 1982, 1991-1999
- Coverage Date
- 1973-1999
- Coverage Place
- Milne Bay province, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- Frederick H. Damon
- LCCN
- 95641414
- LCSH
- Massim (Papua New Guinean people)