The archaeology and ethnohistory of exchange in precolonial and colonial Roviana: Gifts, commodities, and inalienable possessions

Current Anthropology

Volumn 44, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Aswani, Shankar ^a   Sheppard, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 24544438601     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377667     Document Type: Review

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