Andrew Strathern, Strathern

The Rope of Moka

Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen New Guinea
Herausgeber: Fortes, Meyer

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Produktbeschreibung

In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the Europeans by a vigorous development of moka.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780521099578
• ISBN-10: 0521099579
• Artikelnr.: 23414651

Autorenporträt

Dr Andrew Strathern is Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of several books, including, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours and Gossip (CUP, 2004), Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Landscape, Memory and History (Pluto, 2005) and Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Groups
3. Ceremonial grounds
4. Warfare, alliance, and compensation
5. Moka transactions and media of exchange
6. Moka chains
7. Counting pigs and shells
8. Disputes and struggles precipitated by moka occasions
9. Moka and the status of big-man
10. The moka system and the behaviour of big-men
Appendices