Social reproduction and history in Melanesia
Subtitle: mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands
By: Robert J. Foster.
Series: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ;; 96
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Tanga (Papua New Guinea people); Tanga (Papua New Guinea people) -- Funeral customs and rites.; Ceremonial exchange -- Papua New Guinea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-283) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1988.