Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring

"Adds substantially to the ethnography of Melanesian mortuary ritual.... The cumulative result is a forceful demonstration of how mortuary ritual can organize and channel the flow of Melanesian social life."—Pacific Affairs

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Frederick H. Damon
Part I: The Northern Massim
To Eat for the Dead: Kaduwagan Mortuary Events: Susan P. Montague
A Vakutan Mortuary Cycle: Shirley Campbell
The Muyuw Lo'un and the End of Marriage: Frederick H. Damon
Interlude
Death and Kinship in Molima: Ann Chowning
Part II: The Southern Massim
The Triumph of the Susu: Mortuary Exchanges on Tubetube: Martha Macintyre
Death and Matrilineal Reincorporation on Normanby Island: Carl Thune
"Eating the Dead": MortuaryTransactions in Bwaidoka, Goodenough Island: Michael W. Young
Death and Exchange: Mortuary Ritual on Vanatinai (Sudest Island): Maria Lepowsky
The Day of Reckoning on Rossel Island: John Liep
Conclusion: The Exchange of Context of the Kula: Roy Wagner
Bibliography