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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
  • Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) > Agriculture
  • Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs
  • Art and anthropology > East Sepik Province
  • East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs
  • Ethnology > East Sepik Province
  • Yams > East Sepik Province
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