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‖ kula|ˈkuːlə|
Also Kula.
[Melanesian.]
In some Pacific communities, esp. in the Trobriand Islands, an inter-island system of ceremonial exchange of items as a prelude to or concomitant of regular trading.
1920B. Malinowski in Man XX. 97 (heading) Kula; the circulating exchange of valuables in the archipelagoes of eastern New Guinea. Ibid. 101 Glancing at the map we see a number of circles, each of which represents a certain sociological unit which we shall call a Kula community. 1927― Sex & Repression Savage Soc. ii. iii. 93 Those in charge of the overseas expeditions called Kula are often supposed to have dreams about the success of their ceremonial trading. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. i. 3 The Trobriand islanders of New Guinea exchange in the kula. 1970Nature 12 Dec. 1064/2 The best known exchange mechanism of this kind of recent times is the kula trade of the Trobriand islanders of the western Pacific.
Hence kula v., to exchange ceremonial gifts in this manner.
1922B. Malinowski Argonauts W. Pacific iii. 101 Several villages do not kula. Ibid. xi. 281 Bokuyoba..gave the pair..to Kadamwasila..her son..kula'd it on to some of his southern partners. |