Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

Maring Hunters and Traders

Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands

Dr. Christopher Healey

Suggested citation:
Healey, Christopher. Maring Hunters and Traders: Production and Exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2k4004h3/

Preface
A Note on Conventions

Introduction
1 The Kundagai Environment and Society
2 The Uses and Significance of Plumes
3 Hunting and Its Regulation
4 Valuables and Prestations
5 The Structure of Trade
6 The Development of Trade
7 Exchange Rates
8 Utilitarianism, Sociability, and The Organization of Trade

Appendix 1 Marriage Patterns
Appendix 2 Birds Used in Decorations
Appendix 3 Valuables and Trade Goods
Appendix 4 Trade Regions
Notes
Bibliography

Contents