Author: Liep, John
Title: A Papuan Plutocracy : Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island
Description: Aarhus [Denmark], Aarhus University Press, (2009). orig. wrappers. 24x27cm, xxxviii,376 pp. Textual photo illustrations.. ISBN: 9788779344464. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contents: Foreword / by Stephen C. Levinson -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue. Massim transformations -- pt. 1. The setting. Rossel Island ; Frameworks of practice ; Dimensions of power ; Economic domains -- pt. 2. Ranked exchange. Shell money and valuables ; The cycle of social reproduction ; The pig feast ; The remaining forms of payment ; The rules and practice of ranked exchange -- Epilogue. A Papuan plutocracy -- Glossary.

Keywords: 9788779344464 Melanesia, Ethnography, Papua New Guinea, Ethnology, Social Anthropology, Massim, Shell Money, Rossel Island,