Ethnology, Volume 43University of Pittsburgh, 2004 - Anthropology |
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... cowries , such a development is unlikely to have taken place among them , had the colonial powers not intervened . What further distinguished Me cowries from money used in the Western world is that precious cowries had to be included in ...
... cowries , such a development is unlikely to have taken place among them , had the colonial powers not intervened . What further distinguished Me cowries from money used in the Western world is that precious cowries had to be included in ...
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... cowries . On occasion , the Wanggulam used odd cowries in what seemed commercial transactions with each other . But the usual “ biography ” ( Kopytoff 1986 ) of a cowrie was to have its back removed and then attached to a looped band ...
... cowries . On occasion , the Wanggulam used odd cowries in what seemed commercial transactions with each other . But the usual “ biography ” ( Kopytoff 1986 ) of a cowrie was to have its back removed and then attached to a looped band ...
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... cowries administrative officers and missionaries brought ( Ploeg , In press ) , and held onto them after discarding their exchange stones and ritual objects . The wealth items used by Me , Western Dani , and Grand Valley Dani were ...
... cowries administrative officers and missionaries brought ( Ploeg , In press ) , and held onto them after discarding their exchange stones and ritual objects . The wealth items used by Me , Western Dani , and Grand Valley Dani were ...
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The Case of Unmarried | 1 |
Punk Cuisine Dylan Clark | 19 |
Development and the Life Story of a Thai Farmer Leader | 33 |
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