LEADER 02436nam 2200493 450 001 9910480443603321 010 $a0-85745-734-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001117110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1341888 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001117110 100 $a20120621d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrowing art, displaying relationships $eyams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea /$fLudovic Coupaye 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (372 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-85745-733-0 311 $a1-299-86296-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 $a"How does one make powerful and beautiful and artefacts? What is in certain objects that give them the capacity to act simultaneously as symbols, valuables and images? This book answers these questions through joining together anthropology of material culture, anthropology of art and anthropology of techniques in order to study the decorated long yams of the Abelam of the Sepik in a contemporary Papua New Guinea village. It unpacks their process of making, which requires the combination of agricultural techniques, social interactions, and cosmological knowledge, and provides discussion of the complex positions of study of techniques and arts within anthropology"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAbelam (Papua New Guinean people)$xSocial life and customs 606 $aAbelam (Papua New Guinean people)$xAgriculture 606 $aYams$zPapua New Guinea$zEast Sepik Province 606 $aArt and anthropology$zPapua New Guinea$zEast Sepik Province 606 $aEthnology$zPapua New Guinea$zEast Sepik Province 607 $aEast Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAbelam (Papua New Guinean people)$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aAbelam (Papua New Guinean people)$xAgriculture. 615 0$aYams 615 0$aArt and anthropology 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a305.89/912 700 $aCoupaye$b Ludovic$0950537 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480443603321 996 $aGrowing art, displaying relationships$92149186 997 $aUNINA