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Growing artefacts, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / Ludovic Coupaye.
- Title
- Growing artefacts, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / Ludovic Coupaye.
- Author
- Coupaye, Ludovic.
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
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- Description
- xx, 352 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Material mediations : people and things in a world of movement ; vol. 2
- Uniform Title
- Material mediations ; v. 2.
- Alternative Title
- Yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- List of illustrations -- Prolegomenon -- Acknowledgemetns -- Introduction : getting there, meeting things -- Of yams and ethnography -- Objects, technology and art -- Jëbaa (work) : processes of materialisation -- Collectives as components -- Waapi saaki : aligning relationships -- Of porperties of artefacts : food, valuables and images -- Conclusion : displays and sprouts -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780857457332 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0857457330 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780857457349 (e-book)
- 0857457349 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2012025543
- 40022804077
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library