From Currency to Agency: Shell Money in
Contemporary Langalanga, Solomon Islands*
Pei-yi Guo
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Shell money composed of strings of shell beads have been widely used
in island Melanesia as bride wealth, payment for compensation, medium for
trade, and personal ornaments. Most production centers in the region
abandoned their manufacture since the introduction of colonial currencies,
and the Langalanga is the only group…
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