Mana Māori [[electronic resource] ] : de kracht van Nieuw-Zeelands eerste bewoners / / Fanny Wonu Veys |
Autore | Veys Fanny Wonu |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Leiden, Netherlands], : Leiden University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits (some colour) |
Disciplina | 305.899442 |
Collana |
Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
Soggetto topico | Māori (New Zealand people) |
ISBN |
1-283-69850-1
94-006-0005-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | dut |
Nota di contenuto | 1. REIZEN IN DE STILLE ZUIDZEE -- 2. MENSEN VAN HET LAND - TANGATA WHENUA -- 3. SCHATTEN - TAONGA. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141412603321 |
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[Leiden, Netherlands], : Leiden University Press, 2010 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Unwrapping Tongan barkcloth : encounters, creativity and female agency / / Fanny Wonu Veys |
Autore | Veys Fanny Wonu |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps |
Disciplina | 306.4/6099612 |
Soggetto topico |
Tapa - Tonga
Tapa - Social aspects - Tonga Women - Tonga - Social conditions Material culture - Tonga Textile design & theory |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4742-8333-0
1-4742-8331-4 1-4742-8330-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
pt. 1. Encounters: Awakening European minds -- European impressions -- The quest for barkcloth names -- The ancestry of barkcloth -- 2. Creating barkcloth -- Story of a tree -- Substance of color -- Rubbing boards -- Sticky stuff -- Supersizing it -- Working together -- 3. Collecting barkcloth -- Enticing cloth -- Barkcloth appropriations -- the Alexander Shaw books -- "Spanish Lake" -- Lost collections? -- Decreasing interest -- Beachcombers, merchants, and whalers -- Missionaries -- Collecting souvenirs.
pt. 2. Creativity: Creativity in shapes and forms -- Tongan-style barkcloth -- Barkcloth design through time --Barkcloth circulation -- Imagining and forging the tongan land -- Between the cross and the cloth -- Before missionary arrival -- Missionary failure and uncertainties, 1797-1827 -- Triumphant Christianity, 1828-1860 -- "Civilizing mission," gender, industriousness and economic policies --Creating beautiful and moral bodies -- Missionary attitudes and an east-west divide -- Wesleyan and Marist competition -- Barkcloth-a way of being in the world. pt. 3. Female agency -- Capturing the "Female essence"? -- Enveloped by ngatu -- Defining koloa -- Value of koloa -- Are koloa gendered? -- A feast for the senses -- A modern dynast of royals -- Royal ceremonies-a wedding, two funerals, and a coronation -- Characteristics of barkcloth -- Conflated sensations -- Conclusion- encounters, creativity, and female agency -- Encounters-surprising and vital occurrences -- Creativity-ingenious imagination -- Female agency-prestigious mediation. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155086803321 |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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