<p> List of Tables and Figures</p>
<p> <strong><a>Introduction</a></strong><br> <em>Laurent Dousset</em> and <em>Serge Tcherkézoff</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 1.</strong> Some Things You Say, Some Things You Dissimulate, and Some Things You Keep To Yourself: Linguistic and Material Exchange in the Construction of Melanesian Societies<br> <em>Joel Robbins</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 2.</strong> The Enigma of Christian Conversion: Exchange and the Emergence of New Great Men among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea<br> <em>John Barker</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 3.</strong> Alienating the Inalienable: Marriage and Money in a Big-man Society<br> <em>Polly Wiessner</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 4.</strong> Anthropology and the Future of Sexuality Studies: An Essay in Honour of Maurice Godelier<br> <em>Gilbert Herdt</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 5.</strong> Material and Immaterial Relations: Gender, Rank and Christianity in Vanuatu<br> <em>Margaret Jolly</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 6.</strong> The Making of Chiefs: Hereditary Succession, Personal Agency and Exchange in North Mekeo Chiefdoms<br> <em>Mark S. Mosko</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 7.</strong> What is left out in Kinship<br> <em>Robert H. Barnes</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 8.</strong> Maurice Godelier and the Asiatic Mode<br> <em>Jack Goody</em></p>
<p> <strong>Chapter 9.</strong> The Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Indigenization in the Contemporary World System: Contradictory Configurations of Class and Culture<br> <em>Jonathan Friedman</em></p>
<p> Publications by Maurice Godelier<br> Notes on the Contributors<br> Index</p>