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9780873386616

Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History

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    9780873386616

  • ISBN10:

    0873386612

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction 1(8)
Part One: Transaction 9(60)
Transaction and Personhood
11(10)
Trade as Transaction and ``Friendship''
21(21)
Pigs, Shells, and Locality
42(13)
The Relational-Individual
55(14)
Part Two: Transition 69(44)
Transaction and Rhetoric
71(12)
Early Administration: Kiaps and Councils
83(10)
``Law,'' ``Custom,'' and Violence
93(20)
Part Three: Contradiction 113(56)
Honor, Shame, and Agency
115(13)
Crime and Compensation
128(19)
The Embodiment of Confession
147(22)
Part Four: Conclusions 169(29)
Money, Politics, Persons
171(19)
Resolutions and Revolutions
190(8)
References 198(11)
Index 209

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