Engendering objects : dynamics of barkcloth and gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea / Anna-Karina Hermkens.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Hermkens, Anna-Karina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maisin (Papua New Guinean people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Maisin (Papua New Guinean people).

Maisin (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.

Sex differences (Psychology)--Papua New Guinea.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people's identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.This book describes in detail how barkcloth (tapa) not only visualizes and e

Contents:

part 1. Women and barkcloth

part 2. Materializations and the performance of identity

part 3. Colonial and postcolonial appropriations of tapa.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Slightly revised edition of PhD-thesis: Engendering objects. Barkcloth and the dyanmics of identity in Papua New Guinea (2005), Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 3, 2014).

ISBN:

90-8890-146-5

OCLC:

870467240

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access