The Rope of Moka: Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen New Guinea by Andrew Strathern

The Rope of Moka: Big-Men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen New Guinea

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology #4

Andrew Strathern

284 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

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In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the Europeans by a vigorous development of moka, a competitive ceremonial exchange of wealth objects. The exchanges of pigs, shells and other valuables a...

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