Fighting with Food: Leadership, Values and Social Control in a Massim Society

by Michael Young, W. Stanner (Foreword by)

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The Melanesians of Goodenough Island, off the eastern coast of New Guinea, have developed the principle of gift-giving to an extraordinary degree. Instead of resorting to arms in their quarrels or demanding compensation for offences, they present enemies and offenders with pigs and yams in order to shame them. This custom of coercive gift-giving operates at various organiz...more

Paperback, 312 pages

Published February 19th 2009 by Cambridge University Press

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