Subject
gift, exchange, ceremonial exchange, debt, violence, sanctions, obligation, anthropology, Oceania, Enga, Papua New Guinea, Mauss (Marcel), Testart (Alain), [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences

Domains
Anthropologie, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

International audience Following Malinowski and Mauss, ceremonials exchanges often have been analysed in terms of « exchange of gift ». This has led generally to consider the economy of the Melanesians societies in a unique sense and to rule out the variability of the exchange modalities which characterize any kind of social life. We shall consider in this paper to what extent this economy of the Melanesians societies does not consist only of gift but that it also encompasses a complex system of debts, the recovery of which can be obtained by several means including physical violence. In this perspective, we will consider more precisely two different kinds of debts which are not relevant neither to a trade nor to a gift through the example of the ceremonial exchange tee of the Enga society (Highlands of New Guinea).

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Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Lecrivain, Valérie

Contributors
Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon] (ARTeHiS) ; Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Sources
ISSN: 2262-8363, EISSN: 1620-3224, Moussons : recherches en sciences humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03607278, Moussons : recherches en sciences humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2022, Non-Market Transfers in Southeast Asia and Beyond. Diversity of Exchange and Dynamics of Social Relations, Sous la direction de Vanina Bouté, Stéphen Huard et Emmanuel Pannier, ⟨10.4000/moussons.8836⟩

Relation
https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.8836
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.4000/moussons.8836

Coverage
Melanesia

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