Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies

Klappentext Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. Zusammenfassung Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. The five papers in this volume seek to set these inequalities into a context of long-term and recent social changes that aim to develop schemes of analysis which will permit discussion of the societies over extended periods of time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Social hierarchies among the Baruya of New Guinea Maurice Godelier; 2. Two waves of African models in the New Guinea Highlands Andrew Strathern; 3. Production and inequality: perspectives from central New Guinea Nicholas Modjeska; 4. The Ipomoean revolution revisited: society and the sweet potato in the upper Wahgi valley Jack Golson; 5. Tribesmen or peasants? Andrew Strathern.

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• Authors: Andrew Strathern
• Assisted by: Andrew Strathern (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521107846
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10784-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Papers in Social Ant
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology