Title A Papuan Plutocracy : Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island.

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Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, 2009.

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Summary	The financial crisis has shown how money can become an instrument for power and greed. The nature of money and financial institutions has again become issues of importance. This will also be the case in anthropology. John Liep's long awaited monograph on Rossel Island in Papua New Guinea analyzes an alternative monetary system. Liep studied the indigenous shell money for two years. The money is ranked in twenty classes. It is not a mean of market exchange but measure value in terms of status difference. It is paid in bridewealth, at pig feasts and for status symbols such as houses and canoes. O.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-363) and index.
Contents	Prologue. Massim transformations -- The setting. Rossel Island ; Frameworks of practice ; Dimensions of power ; Economic domains -- Ranked exchange. Shell money and valuables ; The cycle of social reproduction ; The pig feast ; The remaining forms of payment ; The rules and practice of ranked exchange -- Epilogue. A Papuan plutocracy.
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Subject	Shell money -- Papua New Guinea -- Rossel Island.
	Shell money.
	Papua New Guinea -- Rossel Island.
	Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
	Papua New Guinea.
	Manners and customs.
	Social classes -- Papua New Guinea -- Rossel Island.
	Social classes.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: 9788779344464
ISBN	9788779346703
	8779346707
	9788779344464
	8779344461

Title A Papuan Plutocracy : Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island.

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