An Overview of Rossel Island Exchange

FORUM: A DISCUSSION OF JOHN LIEP’S RECENT BOOK, A PAPUAN PLUTOCRACY: RANKED EXCHANGE ON ROSSEL ISLAND (2009)   In September 2009 a group of scholars met at Aarhus University, Copenhagen, for the defence of Mag. Scient. John Liep’s doctoral thesis, published by  Aarhus University Press under the title, A Papuan Plutocracy: Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island (2009). The book is the first full-scale modern ethnography of the well-known shell money system on Rossel Island—one of the most complex such systems on record. Liep’s ethnography is very powerful, but more than that, the book is built around an ambitious and unusual critique of notions of reciprocity and the gift economy that are of great general importance. Liep’s three examiners were Joel Robbins, Chris Gregory and Ton Otto. In light of the depth of debate that marked the occasion of the defence, there was a  eneral feeling that the discussion deserved a wider forum. The result is the texts that are published together here

Helena Wayne (red.): The Story ofa Marriage. The Letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson.

The Letters of Bronislaw Malinowski and Elsie Masson. 175 Anmeldes af John Liep

FLYVSKE TOTEMER PÅ EN SYDHAVSØ

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ET VILDNIS AF TABUER: Jagten på en kulinarisk struktur

John Liep: A Wilderness of Taboos: The Quest for a Culinary Structure Recent anthropological research in Melanesia has focused on the construction of the person, theories of conception and procreation, and flows of substances through social relations and persons. There will often be a correspondence between substances such as sperm and biood, bodily parts such as bone and flesh, and contrasting foods that are gendered. An asymmetric constitution of the person and a clear structuration of food prestations between affinal sides may exist. A study of these themes on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea yielded frustrating results. No clear idea of contrasting, gendered body aspects was found. Further, a large number of food taboos for menstruating, pregnant and lactating women was distributed in clusters that were amenable to various logics of interpretation without any total structural logic appearing. This negative result is explained by the absence of any sustained practice of asymmetric marriage and corresponding complementary prestations between affines, which would reproduce an ordering asymmetric structure of the person and of the universe of foods

Anita Herle & Sandra Rouse (eds.): Cambridge and the Torres Strait. Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition

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Maurice Godelier: The Enigma of The Gift.

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Ole Højris: Antropologiens idéhistorie. 2500 års konstruktion af os selv og de fremmede. Acta Jutlandica, Humanistisk Serie 2010/1. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2010. 516 sider. ISBN 978-87-7934-5645 (hb). Pris: 398 kr.

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