description: 'The Fame Of Gawa' is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring.
language: English
title: The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society
titlecomplete: The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) Society (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
genres: Anthropology
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Cambridge University Press