Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies

Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 0521107849
ISBN-13 : 9780521107846
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Download or read book Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies written by Andrew Strathern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strathern's illuminating study of the inequalities amongst the Highland societies of Papua New Guinea is now reissued with a new preface. The five papers in this volume seek to set these inequalities into a context of long-term and recent social changes that aim to develop schemes of analysis which will permit discussion of the societies over extended periods of time.


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