‘Like Playing a Game Where You Don't Know the Rules’: Investing Meaning in Intercultural Cash Transactions Between Tourists and Trobriand Islanders

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Figure 1. Kina notes, banana leaf bundles (doba), and calico cloth prepared for distribution at a mortuary feast (sagali) in a kind of payment called sepwana. Source: Photo by author.

Figure 2. Visitors shop for Trobriand-made objects as souvenirs. Source: Photo by author.