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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
March 1, 1991
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521390187
ISBN-10
0521390184
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$75.00
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue. This is a hypothesis formulated by Maurice Godelier concerning the relationship between power, kinship and wealth. Although tightly focused on Godelier's work, the book opens up a major enquiry into the constitution of society in a part of the world where men of prominence come to personify the nature of power. 'Big men', entrepreneurs of exchanges, and 'great men', who flourish in societies characterised by restricted exchanges and ritual complexity, appear to belong to quite different systems. This book considers how substantial the difference between them really is.
Editions
Editions for the work Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia
Hardcover
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With Jean Pare |
from Cambridge Univ Pr (March 1, 1991)
9780521390187 | details & prices | List price $75.00
This edition also contains Classic Curry
About: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory.
This edition also contains Classic Curry
About: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory.
Paperback
Reissue edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (December 11, 2008)
9780521102292 | details & prices | 328 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $44.99
Editions for the work Classic Curry
Hardcover
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With Marilyn Strathern, Maurice Godelier |
from Cambridge Univ Pr (March 1, 1991); titled "Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia"
9780521390187 | details & prices | List price $75.00
This edition also contains Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia
About: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory.
This edition also contains Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia
About: The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory.
Paperback
from Companys Coming Pub Ltd (March 1, 2013)
9781896891736 | details & prices | 64 pages | List price $4.99
from Companys Coming Pub Ltd (January 3, 2013)
9781927126363 | details & prices | 64 pages | 5.50 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $4.99
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