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People and things : social mediations in Oceania / edited by Monique Jeudy-Ballini and Bernard Juillerat.

by Jeudy-Ballini, Monique, 1955-

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Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2002.

Exchange -- Oceania.

Kava (Beverage)

Material culture -- Oceania.

Oceania -- Social life and customs.

xi, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction: The social life of objects / Monique Jeudy-Ballini and Bernard Juillerat -- Subjects and objects in Samoa: ceremonial mats have a "soul" / Serge Tcherkezoff -- Kava ritual and the reproduction of male identity in Polynesia / Francoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- Surrogates for humans and for gods / Maurice Godelier -- Women and wealth in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- Spectacle of things: a Melanesian perspective on the person and the self / Stephane Breton -- Other side of the gift: from desire to taboo representations of exchange and OEdipal symbolism among the Yafar, Papua New Guinea / Bernard Juillerat -- To help and to "hold": forms of cooperation among the Sulka, New Britain / Monique Jeudy-Ballini -- Copy rights for objects of worship, land tenure and filiation in New Ireland / Brigitte Derlon -- Australian Aboriginal ritual objects or how to represent the unrepresentable / Marika Moisseeff -- Culture cult ritual circulation of inalienable objects and appropriation of culture knowledge (Northwest and Central Australia) / Barbara Glowczewski -- Time, objects and identities the destiny of Kanak art / Alban Bensa

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