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    Not very much barter really. The authors are keen to stress that this is not a capitalist mode of reproduction, "Polysemic exchange objects and the social relations generated by their circulation have been the centerpiece of theoretical debates in Melanesian anthropology for several decades."
    It's Interesting that the matrilineal clans are still in existence. They seem to be in the middle of the process of swapping over to patrilineal lines of inheritance.

 
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