Fine Mats and Money: Contending Exchange Paradigms in Colonial Samoa

The introduction of Western economic institutions is often credited with radical transformative power in contact situations. Recent literature stresses the variability of local/global "intersections" and recognizes the efficacy of indigenous action and intentionality in colonial encounters...

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Colonialism
Cultural customs
Culture
Currency
Economics
Ethnology
Exchange circuits, markets, money
Gift giving
History
Indexing in process
Money
Morphological source materials
Oceania
Oratory
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Polynesian languages
Polynesian studies
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Social research
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