Totem and transaction: the objectification of tradition among North Mekeo

Arts & Humanities

• Colonialism 18%
• Commodities 15%
• Continuity 15%
• Cultural Contacts 26%
• Cultural Identity 27%
• Cultural Practices 41%
• Economy 18%
• Ethnographic 18%
• Ethnography 52%
• Exchange Systems 60%
• Gift Exchange 55%
• Logic 11%
• Melanesia 27%
• Nation-state 25%
• Objectification 96%
• Papua New Guinea 27%
• Penetration 21%
• Portrayal 17%
• Possession 36%
• Possessive Individualism 33%
• Pre-contact 85%
• Prestige 46%
• Private Property 23%

Social Sciences

• colonial age 16%
• commodity exchange 26%
• contact 57%
• continuity 13%
• cultural relations 19%
• economy 20%
• ethnography 29%
• gift 34%
• individualism 16%
• Melanesia 19%
• nation state 15%
• objectification 100%
• Papua-New Guinea 19%
• possession 33%
• prestige 33%
• private property 19%
• time 11%
• transaction 76%