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    Kula, also known as the Kula exchange or Kula ring, is a ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The Kula...
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    ethnography of the Trobriand Islands described the complex institution of the Kula ring and became foundational for subsequent theories of reciprocity and exchange...
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  • in Turkey Kula, Manisa, a town in Western Anatolia, Turkey Kula, Hawaii, a district of East Maui in Hawaii, U.S. Kula, Sungurlu Kula ring, a ceremonial...
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    Manchester culminated in the publication of his first book, Politics of the Kula Ring: An Analysis of the Findings of Bronislaw Malinowski (Manchester University...
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    roles. Other examples of this "potlatch type" of gift economy include the Kula ring found in the Trobriand Islands.: 188–208  Competitive altruism Conspicuous...
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  • Bronisław Malinowski's description of the Kula ring in the Trobriand Islands during World War I. The Kula trade appeared to be gift-like since Trobrianders...
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    Massachusetts, United States. 17-year-old Erich Kulas, an aspiring professional wrestler who used the ring name "Mass Transit", was seriously injured in...
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    mortuary sequences and complex systems of ritual exchange including the Kula ring. From island group to island group and even between close lying islands...
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  • Malinowski established that they were part of a system of exchange, the Kula ring. He stated that this exchange system was clearly linked to political authority...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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  • defend gold. Based on Bronislaw Malinowski's ethnological work on the Kula ring exchange in the Trobriand Islands, Polanyi makes the distinction between...
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  • cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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    there has been little need for a currency-based economy outside of the Kula rings. To counteract this lack of hard currency, several western goods stores...
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  • they were part of a system of inter-tribal exchange: it is known as the Kula ring, a closed circuit in which necklaces of red shells go in a clockwise motion...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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  • on the meaning of "Kula exchange" in the Trobriand Islands off Papua New Guinea during the First World War. Malinowski used Kula exchange to demonstrate...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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    Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. Berghahn Books. pp. 180–246. ISBN 9781785332333. Mabberley, D.J. (1997)...
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  • cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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  • In parts of West Asia, Cypraea annulus, the ring cowry, so-called because of the bright orange-colored ring on the back or upper side of the shell, was...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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    cultivation Moral economy Peasant economics Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell...
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  • exchange. She also applies the concept to explain examples such as the Kula ring in the Trobriand Islands, which was made famous by Bronisław Malinowski...
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    Society portal Archaeology of trade Bronisław Malinowski De Beneficiis Kula ring Ernest Becker Emile Durkheim James George Frazer Hughes, Alex; Reader...
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