Inalienable ethnography: Keeping-while-giving and the trobriand case

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 377-396

  Mosko, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0010102557     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.00022     Document Type: Article

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