Until the 1990s, there was little anthropological focus on the exchange of important commodities between multi-lingual communities in Papua New Guinea. This book explores how more than 100 communities who speak nearly fifty languages from five unrelated language phyla interact by developing persistent relations known as "hereditary friendship." Unlike elsewhere in Papua New Guinea, these different groups use friendship rather than marriage to bring harmony, peace, and basic commodities to their communities.
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Friendship and Exchange Along the North Coast of New Guinea
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Table of contents
- Friendship and Exchange Along the North Coast of New Guinea
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Exploring Historic Relationships along the North Coast of New Guinea
- Chapter 2. Linguistic Diversity along the North Coast of New Guinea
- Chapter 3. Is Material Culture Variation Correlated with Language Affiliation?
- Chapter 4. Studying Friendship Networks along the North Coast
- Chapter 5. How Friendship Functioned along the North Coast
- Chapter 6. The Nature of Friendship along the North Coast
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
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