03099nam 2200553 450 991079042130332120140313075016.00-85745-734-910.1515/9780857457349(CKB)2550000001117110(MiAaPQ)EBC1341888(DE-B1597)636973(DE-B1597)9780857457349(EXLCZ)99255000000111711020120621d2013 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierGrowing art, displaying relationships yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea /Ludovic CoupayeNew York :Berghahn Books,2013.1 online resource (372 pages) illustrationsMaterial Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ;20-85745-733-0 1-299-86296-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prolegomenon -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Getting There, Meeting the Things -- 1 Of Yams and Ethnography -- 2 Objects, Technology and Art -- 3 JËBAA (Work) Processes of Materialisation -- 4 Collectives as Components -- 5 WAAPI SAAKI Aligning Relationships -- 6 Of Properties of Artefacts Food, Valuables and Images -- Conclusion: Displays and Sprouts -- Bibliography -- Index"How does one make powerful and beautiful and artefacts? What is in certain objects that give them the capacity to act simultaneously as symbols, valuables and images? This book answers these questions through joining together anthropology of material culture, anthropology of art and anthropology of techniques in order to study the decorated long yams of the Abelam of the Sepik in a contemporary Papua New Guinea village. It unpacks their process of making, which requires the combination of agricultural techniques, social interactions, and cosmological knowledge, and provides discussion of the complex positions of study of techniques and arts within anthropology"--Provided by publisher.Abelam (Papua New Guinean people)Social life and customsAbelam (Papua New Guinean people)AgricultureYamsPapua New GuineaEast Sepik ProvinceArt and anthropologyPapua New GuineaEast Sepik ProvinceEthnologyPapua New GuineaEast Sepik ProvinceEast Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)Social life and customsAbelam (Papua New Guinean people)Social life and customs.Abelam (Papua New Guinean people)Agriculture.YamsArt and anthropologyEthnology305.89/912Coupaye Ludovic1473961MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790421303321Growing art, displaying relationships3687352UNINA