Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia
 expand sectionPreface
  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionIntroduction  The Problem of Persistence—Precolonial Forms in Postcolonial Life
 expand section1  Ponam Island, Manus Province
 expand section2  History of Ponam Island
 collapse section3  Local Production: Ponam Fishing
 •Ponam Fishing Techniques
 •Social Practices of Fishing
 •Shell Money
 collapse sectionMarine Tenure
 •Reef and Sea Tenure
 •Countervailing Marine Rights: Species of Fish
 collapse sectionCountervailing Marine Rights: Fishing Techniques
 •Individual Fishing Techniques
 •Collective Fishing Techniques
 •Fishing Rights and Social Structure
 •Commercial Fishing and Social Structure
 •Ownership and Economic Returns in Collective Net Fishing
 •Fishing Ownership, Exchange, and Social Identity
 expand section4  Local Circulation: Ponam Trade
 expand section5  Migration and Remittance
 expand section6  Internal Exchange
 expand section7  Conclusions: Colonization, Articulation, and the Evolution of Ponam Society

 expand sectionNotes
  References
 expand sectionIndex
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