02700nam 2200613 450 991079098170332120230126203806.090-8890-146-5(CKB)2550000001191417(EBL)1602345(SSID)ssj0001157487(PQKBManifestationID)11794087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001157487(PQKBWorkID)11208521(PQKB)10258447(MiAaPQ)EBC1602345(OCoLC)ocn870467240(DLC) 2014429017(Au-PeEL)EBL1602345(CaPaEBR)ebr10829861(CaONFJC)MIL570840(OCoLC)869096066(EXLCZ)99255000000119141720140203h20132013 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEngendering objects dynamics of barkcloth and gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea /Anna-Karina HermkensLeiden :Sidestone Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (389 p.)Description based upon print version of record.90-8890-145-7 1-306-39589-5 Includes bibliographical references.part 1. Women and barkcloth -- part 2. Materializations and the performance of identity -- part 3. Colonial and postcolonial appropriations of tapa.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 eMaisin (Papua New Guinean people)Rites and ceremoniesMaisin (Papua New Guinean people)Social life and customsSex differences (Psychology)Papua New GuineaMaisin (Papua New Guinean people)Rites and ceremonies.Maisin (Papua New Guinean people)Social life and customs.Sex differences (Psychology)305.89912Hermkens Anna-Karina1464459MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790981703321Engendering objects3674099UNINA