Wat Bushmen trachten te behouden …: naar aanleiding van "Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving" van Annette B. Weiner (1992)

This article has a double goal. First, it tries to enlighten key notions in Weiners book: inalienable possessions, brother-sister-relations, hierarchy and equality, cosmological authentication. Second, it relates the paradox of keeping-while-giving to the concept of possession and exchange among Sou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: A. Verpoorte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Gents Afrika Platform, Afrika Brug 1996-01-01
Series:Afrika Focus
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Online Access:http://www.gap.ugent.be/africafocus/pdf/96-12-13-Verpoorte.pdf