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First Published in 1991. In the 1980s many anthropologists rejected the classic concern with the structure and logic of social organisation and embraced instead a concern with process, with the fluidity of events and individual strategy. Through its analysis of a Melanesian society and the ways it has changed in the twentieth century this book addresses the relationship between the classic structural approach and the more recent processual one. The society analysed is Ponam, located on a small island in Papua New Guinea. The book describes Ponam kinship and ceremonial exchange, and so compliments the authors’'' analysis of Onam economic organisation in ''Wage, Tarde and Exchange in Melanesia''. Like its companion volume, this book locates Ponanm in its broader social, political and economic environment.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society
• Author: CARRIER
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9781138996571
• ISBN: 9781138996571
• ID: 13598738
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 453 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 174 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2016

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