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Australian National University Press/Canberra. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing 368 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: F- (minimal bumps to top corners, clean, bright pages/endpapers, possibly unread)/F (mylar wraps). 1st Ed., 1st Printing/First Edition, First Printing. ISBN 0708117538. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.
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Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies Hardcover - 1978
by Paula G. and Rosman, Abraham Rubel
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- Title Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies
- Author Paula G. and Rosman, Abraham Rubel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition 1st
- Language ENG
- Publisher Australian National Univ. Press, Canberra
- Date 1978
- ISBN 9780708117538
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Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies
by Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman
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Ethnography on cultural exchange in NG. This book "provides a unique theoretical synthesis".This copy in good condition. Binding is tight. Previous owner's name and previous price on flyleaf. Pencil annotations on some pages of the book, but otherwise clean. Dustjacket in good condition, with slight bumps and creases. Photographs show actual book for sale.
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Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat. A comparative Study of New Guinea Societies.
by Rubel, Paula G.; Rosman, abraham.
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Canberra: Australian National University, 1978. xvi, 368pp, index, bibliography, diagrams. Or brown cloth in jacket. As new. Pigs, yams, women and valuables are items of exchange throughout Papua New Guinea. Ceremonial exchange does not arise from economic necessity, rather a social phenomenon reflecting interplay between kinship and marriage structures, the nature of political leadership and the religious and symbolic systems found in these cultures. This work copares 13 New Guinea societies focusing on these distinctive ceremonial exchanges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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