Exchange And Sacrifice

Series Editors' Preface ix Introduction Aligning Words, Aligning Worlds xi Andrew Strathern Pamela J. Stewart Section A: Fundamentals of Comparison From the Western `Body' to `Are'are `Money': The Monetary Transfiguration of Socio-Cosmic Relations in the Solomon Islands 3(24) Daniel de Coppet Hattie E. Hill Section B: Exchange and Identity The Great House and the Marche: Two Kanak Exchange Complexes (New-Caledonia) 27(28) Denis Monnerie Myth and Metamorphic Metaphors: Exchange and Sea-Land Synergy in Malaita, Solomon Islands 55(20) Pierre Maranda Section C: Rethinking Issues---Rank and Performativity in Exchange Systems Ranked Exchange: Dimensions and Transformations 75(20) John Liep The Perfomativity of Ritual Exchange: A Melanesian Example 95(46) Edward LiPuma Benjamin Lee Section D: History and Creativity---Emergent Narratives Proto-People and Precedence: Encompassing Euroamericans Through Narratives of `First Contact' in Solomon Islands 141(36) Michael W. Scott Forms of Leadership and Violence in Malaita and in the New Georgia Group, Solomon Islands 177(24) Shankar Aswani Wealth Among the Western Dani, West Papua 201(28) Anton Ploeg Section E: Exchange and Sacrifice Exchange and Sacrifice: Examples from Papua New Guinea 229(18) Andrew Strathern Pamela J. Stewart List of Contributors 247(2) Index 249