Scope of Anthropology

Laurent Dousset is Associate Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) and is director of the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania) in Marseilles. He has done research in Aboriginal Australia and has also developed several IT knowledge systems for the social sciences. He is currently preparing the biography of an Aboriginal woman. Serge Tcherkezoff is Professor of Anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris-Marseille. With Maurice Godelier and Pierre Lemonnier, he founded the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania), a research unit member of CNRS, EHESS and the University of Provence and is currently organising an EHESS Branch at the Australian National University.

• List of Tables and Figures Introduction Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkezoff Chapter 1. Some Things You Say, Some Things You Dissimulate, and Some Things You Keep To Yourself: Linguistic and Material Exchange in the Construction of Melanesian Societies Joel Robbins Chapter 2. The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence of New Great Men among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea John Barker Chapter 3. Alienating the Inalienable: Marriage and Money in a Big-man Society Polly Wiessner Chapter 4. Anthropology and the Future of Sexuality Studies: An Essay in Honour of Maurice Godelier Gilbert Herdt Chapter 5. Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity in Vanuatu Margaret Jolly Chapter 6. The Making of Chiefs: Hereditary Succession, Personal Agency and Exchange in North Mekeo Chiefdoms Mark S. Mosko Chapter 7. What is left out in Kinship Robert H. Barnes Chapter 8. Maurice Godelier and the Asiatic Mode Jack Goody Chapter 9. The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Indigenization in the Contemporary World System: Contradictory Configurations of Class and Culture Jonathan Friedman Publications by Maurice Godelier Notes on the Contributors Index

"This is an extremely welcome addition to the literature -- unfortunately, too many English-speakers today think of Godelier as a footnote in the history of Marxist anthropology. This volume helps us remember the importance of Godelier as a thinker of the first order and a major bridge between the Anglophone and Francophone anthropology." * Alex Golub, University of Hawai'i, Manoa