Pocket calculator: a humdrum 'obviator' in Papua New Guinea?
This article examines the significance of pockets for controlling money in Highland Papua New Guinea. Contextualizing elaborate 'systems' for compartmentalizing monies in separate pockets, I draw upon the connection Highlanders make between transaction and skin. Pockets, I argue, offer opp...
| Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. - Blackwell Publishers, 1995. - 19(2013), 3, Seite 510-526 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
| Schlagworte: | Biological sciences Business Economics Social sciences Applied sciences Physical sciences |
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