In much of Melanesia, the process of social reproduction unfolds as
a lengthy sequence of mortuary rites - feast making and gift giving
through which the living publicly define their social relations
with each other while at the same time commemorating the deceased.
In this study Robert J. Foster constructs an ethnographic account
of mortuary rites in the Tanga Islands, Papua New Guinea, placing
these large-scale feasts and ceremonial exchanges in their
historical context and demonstrating how the effects of
participation in an expanding cash economy have allowed Tangans to
conceive of the rites as 'customary' in opposition to the new and
foreign practices of 'business'. His examination synthesizes two
divergent trends in Melanesian anthropology by emphasizing both the
radical differences between Melanesian and Western forms of
sociality and the conjunction of Melanesian and Western societies
brought about by colonialism and capitalism.
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