Inalienable ethnography: Keeping-while-giving and the Trobriand Case

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Mosko, Mark

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Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

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In Inalienable possessions, Annette Weiner (1992) focuses on the paradox of 'keeping-while-giving' rather than the 'norm of reciprocity' as the central issue of social life, drawing heavily on Trobriand examples. In this article, key elements of Weiner's

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2037-12-31