LEADER 04473 am 22004573u 450 001 9910220515203321 005 20220418223838.0 010 $a1-76046-134-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000000641160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5089214 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000641160 100 $a20171103h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aSinuous objects $erevaluing women's wealth in the contemporary Pacific /$fedited by Anna-Karina Hermkens, Lepani Katherine 210 1$aActon, Australian Capital Territory :$cAustralian National University,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (292 pages) $ccolor illustrations, photographs 225 1 $aPacific Series 311 $a1-76046-133-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aIntroduction: Revaluing womens wealth in the contemporary Pacific / Anna Karina Hermkens and Katherine Lepani -- Doba and Ephemeral Durability: The Enduring Material Value of Womens Work in the Trobriand Regenerative Economy / Katherine Lepani -- Doing away with Doba? Womens Wealth and Shifting Values in Trobriand Mortuary Distributions / Michelle MacCarthy -- Poem: Doba Trobriand Skirts / Katherine Lepani -- Womens Wealth and Moral Economies among the Maisin in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea / Anna Karina Hermkens -- Revaluing Pots: Wanigela Women and Regional Exchange / Elizabeth Bonshek -- The Extraordinary Values of Ordinary Objects: String Bags and Pandanus Mats as Korafe Womens Wealth? / Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone -- Poem: Making the Mark / Tessa Miller -- Capturing the Female Essence? Textile Wealth in Tonga / Fanny Wonu Veys -- Passing on, and Passing on Wealth: Compelling Values in Tongan Exchange / Ping Ann Addo -- Cook Islands Tivaivai and the Haircutting Ceremony in Auckland: Ritual Action, Money and the Parameters of Value / Jane Horan -- Poem: urohs language / Emelihter Kihleng -- Epilogue: Sinuous Objects, Sensuous Bodies: Revaluing Womens Wealth Across Time and Place / Margaret Jolly. 330 1 $aSome 40 years ago, Pacific anthropology was dominated by debates about womens wealth. These exchanges were generated by Annette Weiners (1976) critical reappraisal of Bronis?aw Malinowskis classic work on the Trobriand Islands, and her observations that womens production of wealth (banana leaf bundles and skirts) for elaborate transactions in mortuary rituals occupied a central role in Trobriand matrilineal cosmology and social organisation. This volume brings the debates about womens wealth back to the fore by critically revisiting and engaging with ideas about gender and materiality, value, relationality and the social life and agency of things. The chapters, interspersed by three poems, evoke the sinuous materiality of the different objects made by women across the Pacific, and the intimate relationship between these objects of value and sensuous, gendered bodies. In the Epilogue, Professor Margaret Jolly observes how the volume also trace[s] a more abstract sinuosity in the movement of these things through time and place, as they coil through different regimes of value The eight chapters trace winding paths across the contemporary Pacific, from the Trobriands in Milne Bay, to Maisin, Wanigela and Korafe in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, through the islands of Tonga to diasporic Tongan and Cook Islander communities in New Zealand. This comparative perspective elucidates how womens wealth is defined, valued and contested in current exchanges, bride price debates, church settings, development projects and the challenges of living in diaspora. Importantly, this reveals how women themselves preserve the different values and meanings in gift giving and exchanges, despite processes of commodification that have resulted in the decline or replacement of womens wealth. 410 0$aPacific series. 606 $aWomen$zPacific Area$xSocial conditions 607 $aPacific Area$xSocial life and customs 607 $aOceania$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.43092295090511 702 $aKatherine$b Lepani 702 $aHermkens$b Anna-Karina 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220515203321 996 $aSinuous objects$92025112 997 $aUNINA