Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All com...

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1. Verfasser: Coupaye, Ludovic (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2013]
Schriftenreihe:Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 2
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Zusammenfassung:What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All come together to form the 'finished product' that is displayed, representing what could be an indigenous form of non-verbal 'sociology'. Engaging with several contemporary anthropological topics (material culture, techniques, arts, aesthetics, rituals, botany, cosmology, Melanesian ethnography), the text also discusses in depth the complex position of the study of 'technology' within anthropology
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (376 Seiten)
ISBN:9780857457349
DOI:10.1515/9780857457349

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