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comparative anthropology
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exchange systems in anthropology
funeral exchanges
Funeral Feast
Holistic Societies
initiation exchanges
kinship structures
Linked Succession
Marriage Compensation
Marriage Exchanges
Marriage Prestations
Melanesian Societies
Millet Cultivation
Moroccan Rif
Murder Victims
Non-modern Societies
Panpipe Ensembles
Patrilineal Groups
personhood construction
Return Prestation
Ritual Cycle
social hierarchy theory
socio-cosmic frameworks
Solomon Islands
Subject Object Distinction
Sweet Potato
value systems analysis
Vegetable Foodstuffs
Woman's Side
Woman’s Side
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780854969531
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.
Editors:Cecile Barraud, Charge de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), Paris Daniel de Coppet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Andre Iteanu, Charge de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.),Paris Raymond Jamous, Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), France Translated from the French by Stephen J. Suffern
