Women's gift-fish and sociality in the Torres Strait, Australia

Lahn, Julie

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Women's gift-fish and sociality in the Torres Strait, Australia

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2006

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Lahn, Julie

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Oceania Publications

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This paper argues that women's everyday practice of sharing fish at Warraber Island (Torres Strait) can be understood as a form of moral transaction. Gift-fish are shown to be 'socially entangled', a fundamental mode of expressing kin relatedness as well

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