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2. 1. Archaeological Signatures of Feasts 40 4.1. The Social Components of Feasting and Corresponding Political Strategies 118 4.2. Chronological Scheme of Events Discussed in Text 120 4.3. The Six Stages of the Aeatee Cult of Central Enga and Its Relation to the Tee Cycle 135 5.1. Comparison of Rich and Poor Families 148 5.2. Akha Feast Types 153 6.1. Key Contrasts between Tikopia, Marquesas, and Hawaiian Case Studies 170 6.2. Principal Kinds of Feasts in Tikopia 171 6.3. Principal Kinds of Feasts in the Marquesas 174 7.1. Marriage Wealth Exchanges between Two High· Ranking Kwakiutl Families 208 8.1. Classification of the Conibo-Shipibo Ceramic Assemblages 225 8.2. Distribution of Beer and Nonbeer Vessels 228 8.3. Synopsis of Schematic Polarities: The COnibo-Shipibo Point of View 231 11.1. Truncated Mounds in the Eastern United States, 100 B.c.-700 A.D. 315 11.2. Associations of Certain Woodland Platform Mounds 322 15.1. Artifacts Related to a Thanksgiving Feast in Sample C45-120291 409 15.2. Artifacts Related to a Presidents' Day Feast in Sample C7022394 412 15.3. Artifacts Related to a Midweek Parry in Sample 1\7·031194 414 ix ...

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