It’s not magic, but an ethnography by Susanne Kuehling (“KOO-ling”) described “blowing and throwing” in this practice and challenged a canonical description of its participants as “infernally nasty.” A 1986 book described this practice’s “transformation” of “value templates.” Studies of this practice often compare it to maintenance of the UK’s Crown Jewels. A study of women in this culturally-specific practice, the subject of Nancy Munn’s The Fame of Gawa, led Annette Weiner to theorize “inalienable possessions.” Objects can “marry” each other via this practice as soulava move clockwise. A classic ethnography asks why men would “risk life and limb” in this practice to exchange “seemingly useless trinkets” after crossing the ocean. For 10 points, name this practice of the Trobriand Islanders studied in Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski ■END■
ANSWER: Kula ring [or Kula exchange; prompt on gifts, giving, trade, barter, navigation, sailing, canoeing, boating, wayfinding, or word forms or equivalents of any by asking “involved in what specific system of exchange?”; prompt on exchange until read by asking “what specific system?”] (The first line refers to Reo Fortune’s infamous judgment in Sorcerers of Dobu, which became an anthropological bromide in Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture.)
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