Michael W. Young

Fighting with Food

Leadership, Values and Social Control in a Massim Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Melanesians of Goodenough Island, off the eastern coast of New Guinea, have developed the principle of gift-giving to an extraordinary degree.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780521107662
• ISBN-10: 0521107660
• Artikelnr.: 26010613

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Island and its people
2. Profile of Kalauna: settlement and residence
3. Kinship and marriage
4. Clanship and custom
5. Leadership
6. Social control
7. The social value of food: full gardens and small bellies
8. The social value of food: empty gardens and big bellies
9. Competitive food exchanges: the ethnography of abutu
10. Competitive food exchanges and social control
11. Festivals.