The Fame of Gawa by Nancy D Munn
This new edition of the critically acclaimed The Fame of Gawa-originally published in 1986-makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. The Fame of Gawa is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Integrating various aspects of the study of society and culture--including the sociocultural construction of space and time, self-other relations and the body, and moral and political problems of hierarchy and equality-Nancy D. Munn shows that it is through achieving fame in the wider inter-island world that the Gawan community asserts its own internal viablity.
"This is an almost ideal realisation of the twin aims of anthropology and ethnographic writing.. This is not just a book about a tiny island, and not just a book for Melanesianists. It coordinates a number of contemporary issues in anthropology." Marilyn Strathern, Man "At once both virtuoso ethnography and a brilliant effort at systematic conceptualization in social theory." George Marcus, Choice "The Fame of Gawa will sit comfortably on the shelf alongside--or perhaps even replace--Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific as a classic of anthropology... [Munn's book] ... masterfully integrates cultural analysis with detailed ethnography." Miriam Kahn, American Anthropologist
Nancy D. Munn is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822312703 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822312700 |
| Title | The Fame of Gawa |
| Author | Nancy D Munn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 1992-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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