<DIV>This new edition of the critically acclaimed <I>The Fame of Gawa</I>—originally published in 1986—makes available for the first time this important work in paperback. <I>The Fame of Gawa</I> is concerned with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Integrating various aspects of the study of society and culture--including the sociocultural construction of space and time, self-other relations and the body, and moral and political problems of hierarchy and equality—Nancy D. Munn shows that it is through achieving fame in the wider inter-island world that the Gawan community asserts its own internal viablity.</div>