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Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands
by Foster, Robert John, Goody, Jack, Leach, Edmund
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- ISBN-13: 9780521483322
- ISBN: 0521483328
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Mortuary rites are a feature of social reproduction in much of Melanesia, and this study combines both ethnographic and historical approaches to describe and interpret the large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges of gifts that follow upon death in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea.Foster, Robert John is the author of 'Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange, and Custom in the Tanga Islands' with ISBN 9780521483322 and ISBN 0521483328.
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