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Growing art, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / / Ludovic Coupaye



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Autore: Coupaye Ludovic Visualizza persona
Titolo: Growing art, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / / Ludovic Coupaye Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 305.89/912
Soggetto topico: Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) - Social life and customs
Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) - Agriculture
Yams - Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province
Art and anthropology - Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province
Ethnology - Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province
Soggetto geografico: East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Growing art, displaying relationships  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-85745-734-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910806925503321
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