Payback

In this study Garry Trompf shows how various aspects of 'payback', both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life.

Inhalt
Illustrations and tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Preliminaries: the theory of retributive logic; Part I. 'Tradition': 1. Revenge; 2. Reciprocity; 3. Integrating and explaining significant events; Part II. 'Cargo Cultism': 4. Reprisal; 5. Redemption; 6. Wishing and explaining the extraordinary; Part III. 'Modernization': 7. Recrimination - in 'modern' guises; 8. Making money and modernizing reciprocities; 9. Money, morals, meaning: old logics, new retributions?; Conclusions and recommendations: Bibliography; Index of Melanesian cultures; General index.

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