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-# "Pigs are our strong thing" # 
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-## Ongka and the gift ## 
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-Ryan Schram 
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-Mills 169 (A26) 
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-ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au 
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-Monday, August 3, 2015 
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-Available at: http://anthro.rschram.org/1002/2.1 
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-## The Kula Ring ## 
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-## Look closely ## 
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-{{:rubin.vase.jpg|A Rubin vase}} 
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-Vase or faces? (Rubin 1915) 
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-{{:necker.cube.png|A Necker cube}} 
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-Which way is the cube oriented? (Necker 1832) 
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-## Who is he? ## 
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-{{:ongka.jpg|Ongka, big man of Kawelka}} 
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-What do you notice about this person? (Nairn 1976) 
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-## Let's watch ## 
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-We will watch the first part of //Ongka's Big Moka//, approximately 25 minutes.  
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-## What did you think? ## 
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-Take out a piece of paper. Talk for a few minutes with the person or 
-people next to you. What questions do you have? What do you want to 
-know more about? What would be good to discuss in tutorial? 
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-Write down your questions and reactions.  
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-Now you can take that piece of paper to tutorial, and discuss your 
-ideas in class. 
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-## What's next ## 
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-On Wednesday, we learn why Ongka must give moka, and must reciprocate 
-moka. The answer comes from the theories of **[[:Marcel Mauss]]**.  
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-We discuss why gifts create obligations: to give, to receive, and to 
-reciprocate. 
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-We then talk about why this matters to understanding contemporary 
-society. 
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-## References ## 
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-Necker, L. A. 1832. "Observations on some remarkable optical 
-phaenomena seen in Switzerland; and on an optical phaenomenon which 
-occurs on viewing a figure of a crystal or geometrical solid". London 
-and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 1(5): 
-329-337. 
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-Rubin, Edgar. 1915. Synsoplevede figurer, studier i psykologisk 
-Analyse, Ite Del. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 
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-## A guide to the unit ## 
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