Title: A Papuan plutocracy
Description: "This book is an ethnography of a Melanesian island, an exploration of ranked exchange and a critique of anthropologoical exchange theory. John Liep unravels the complex society and exchange system on Rossl Island east of New Guinea."--Jacket.
Subjects: Kula exchange, Ceremonial exchange, Massim (Papua New Guinean people), Social life and customs, Shell money, Rites and ceremonies, Social classes, Oceania, social conditions, Oceania, economic conditions
Places: Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea