The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots : : Custom and Conflict in East New Britain / / Keir Martin.
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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