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This study describes the daily existence of the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, who present a challenge to anthropologists because of their apparent lack of a cultural or social structure; but Jane Fajans argues that the Baining define themselves by their own productive and reproductive work.

They Make Themselves Work and Play among the

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/08/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226234441, 978-0226234441
      ISBN10: 0226234444
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      Book Synopsis
      This study describes the daily existence of the Baining people of Papua New Guinea, who present a challenge to anthropologists because of their apparent lack of a cultural or social structure; but Jane Fajans argues that the Baining define themselves by their own productive and reproductive work.

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