The Fame of Gawa A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society

"This is an almost ideal realisation of the twin aims of anthropology and ethnographic writing... This is not just a book about a tiny island, and not just a book for Melanesianists. It coordinates a number of contemporary issues in anthropology." Marilyn Strathern, Man "At once both virtuoso ethnography and a brilliant effort at systematic conceptualization in social theory." George Marcus, Choice "The Fame of Gawa will sit comfortably on the shelf alongside--or perhaps even replace--Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific as a classic of anthropology... [Munn's book] ... masterfully integrates cultural analysis with detailed ethnography." Miriam Kahn, American Anthropologist