Engendering objects : dynamics of barkcloth and gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea / / Anna-Karina Hermkens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790981703321
• Autore: Hermkens Anna-Karina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden : , : Sidestone Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 90-8890-146-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89912
• Soggetti: Maisin (Papua New Guinean people) - Rites and ceremonies; Maisin (Papua New Guinean people) - Social life and customs; Sex differences (Psychology) - Papua New Guinea
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: part 1. Women and barkcloth -- part 2. Materializations and the performance of identity -- part 3. Colonial and postcolonial appropriations of tapa.
• Sommario/riassunto: Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people's identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.This book describes in detail how barkcloth (tapa) not only visualizes and e