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The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots: Custom and Conflict in East New Britain - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Keir Martin
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots: Custom and Conflict in East New Britain - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Keir Martin
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification.
272 pages, 16 illustrations and figures, 2 maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | October 1, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781785330322 |
Publishers | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 228 × 155 × 19 mm · 367 g |
Language | English |