AV# 82923
Kawelka: Ongka’s Big Moka


Disappearing World Series


Video Cassette - 51 minutes - Color - 1974



For the Kawelka highlanders of Papua New Guinea, status in earning by giving rather than receiving; the larger the gift, the greater the giver’s victory over the recipient. This program explores the moka, a giving ceremony, following the efforts of the head man to gather together a gift of monumental proportions to give to a neighboring, and rival, tribal leader. Anthropologist: Andrew Strathern.


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