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Twenty‐fifth anniversary issue

Structures of inequality and the meaning of surplus: A conundrum in the anthropology of Australian aborigines

Pages 559-573 | Published online: 18 May 2010

Notes

  • 1986 . Egalitarian and Hierarchical Tendencies in Aboriginal Social Life . Biennial Conference of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies . May 1986 .

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