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Kula Ring  

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  • The term Kula Ring refers to the circulation of shell valuables between island communities in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Bronislaw Malinowski was the first anthropologist to document the exchange in a classic anthropological text, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, written in1922. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Kula Ring]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-N0C4N4XM-1

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