In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'.
In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing these large scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their historical context and demonstrating how the effects of participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and foreign practices of 'business'.
1. Introduction: history, alterity, and a new (Melanesian) anthropology 2. Commoditization and the emergence of kastam 3. Kastam, bisnis and matriliny 4. Finishing the dead: an outline of Tangan mortuary feasts and exchanges 5. Replacing the dead: identical exchange and lineage succession 6. Performing lineage succession: feast giving and value-creation 7. Performing lineage succession: transformative exchange and the power of mortuary rites 8. Conclusion.
1. Introduction: history, alterity, and a new (Melanesian) anthropology 2. Commoditization and the emergence of kastam 3. Kastam, bisnis and matriliny 4. Finishing the dead: an outline of Tangan mortuary feasts and exchanges 5. Replacing the dead: identical exchange and lineage succession 6. Performing lineage succession: feast giving and value-creation 7. Performing lineage succession: transformative exchange and the power of mortuary rites 8. Conclusion.
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