kula

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• The Vanatinai people, in fact, continue to manufacture and exchange necklaces to the islands to the north and west that circulate in kula as far as the Trobriands.

  Academic text (1991)

• These valuables are obtained in ritualized exchanges that are variants of the kula documented from 1915 to 1918 by Malinowski (1922) for the Trobriands and adjacent islands.

  Academic text (1991)

• One could easily imagine an application to cycles of ritual exchange such as the kula or the orchestration of more short-term exchanges between families.

  Academic text (1993)

• These are all striking parallels to the changes that occurred in the kula and mortuary ritual practices of the islands of southeastern New Guinea.

  Academic text (1991)

• In fact, I was told that the ceremonial kula necklace originated as a decorated human skull, with a piece of white helmet shell now substituted for the skull.

  Academic text (1991)

• Skulls from the Cele-kula, massive executions in Kragujevic, taken to be shot, people in shelters, naked bodies of the Serbian victims at Jasenovac.

  Academic text (1997)

• Grateful residents gave the champions (asiara) shell disc necklaces, greenstone axeblades, and other kula-type valuables in exchange for decorated enemy skulls.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the Trobriand Islands, community members participate in the kula to strengthen relationships through the ritual exchange of valuable goods.

• During the kula ceremony, intricately crafted necklaces are traded among islanders, symbolizing generosity and social ties.

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