Ethnology, Volume 45University of Pittsburgh, 2006 - Anthropology |
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... wealth as no longer acceptable in transactions . When people transact wealth objects , these objects serve as tokens of sociability and their value derives from their use in sequences of socially and politically sanctioned interaction ...
... wealth as no longer acceptable in transactions . When people transact wealth objects , these objects serve as tokens of sociability and their value derives from their use in sequences of socially and politically sanctioned interaction ...
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... wealth in return , thus gaining the right to transact it . Also , men pay wealth to those who produce for them locally made accoutrements that go with some imported valuables , such as the knitted straps of pearl shells in the Southern ...
... wealth in return , thus gaining the right to transact it . Also , men pay wealth to those who produce for them locally made accoutrements that go with some imported valuables , such as the knitted straps of pearl shells in the Southern ...
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... wealth , but surely not inalienably . Fourth , it is difficult to see people discarding traditional wealth , such as seashells , as readily as Highlanders did following inflation in their supply with the arrival of Europeans , if they ...
... wealth , but surely not inalienably . Fourth , it is difficult to see people discarding traditional wealth , such as seashells , as readily as Highlanders did following inflation in their supply with the arrival of Europeans , if they ...
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Why Spheres of Exchange? | 1 |
Volume XLV Number | 4 |
The Case of the Milk Market in the 25 | 25 |
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