it's not who you are but how you give that counts: the role of exchange in a Melanesian society

Abstract

Exchange, rather than descent, can be seen as the primary organizing principle in Melanesian societies. The means by which exchange functions to organize cultural concepts, social relationships, and individual experience is illustrated by reference to the society of Bun in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Here, exchange is central to the way in which the people conceptualize themselves and conceptualize being human, as well as to the definition of social relationships, to communication processes, and to the way in which the society is shaped and formed over generations. [Melanesia, exchange, ideology]

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