ABSTRACT
If any one wishes to obtain a special object by exchange, he must gain the favour of his kula partner by gifts of pigs, specially fine bananas, yams, or taro, the valuable large axe-heads or whalebone spoons. Overseas trading is by no means confined to the kula exchange; it is only that commodities standing in a kula relation to each other belong to the same social sphere. This system by no means excludes the accumulation of goods. Wealth assumes a particular aspect in the more primitive forms of civilization. The elevation of the individual and the display of power are achieved by the use of economic means other than those used by us. Economic goods do not appear in the form of abstract values but as concrete objects of consumption or use; they are, therefore, related to many other sides of life besides the economic one, and are affected by the connexion of the object with supernatural powers and forces.
