4. The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Objects, Exchange, Anthropology 7
6. 2. The Permutations of Debt: Exchange Systems in the Pacific 35
7. 3. The Indigenous Appropriation of European Things 83
8. 4. The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things 125
9. 5. The Discovery of the Gift: Exchange and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific 185
10. Notes 211
11. Index 257