The problem of the Kula on Woodlark Island: Expansion, accumulation, and over‐productionFootnote*

The original version of this paper was presented to the session, Producing Society: Perspectives on Melanesian Sociology, of the 1978 American Anthropological Association metings. I thank Professors Nancy Munn, Annette Weiner and Andrew Strathern for comments on this early draft. The present paper owes much to correspondence with Drs. Cesare Poppi and Christopher Gregory. I have benefited much from all of these people but I alone am responsible for the views herein expressed. Research was conducted on Woodlark Island from July, 1973, to August, 1975. Research was partially funded by NSF Grant (GS‐39631), and a NIMH Fellowship (F01 MH57337–01).

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