Growing art, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / Ludovic Coupaye.
2013
DU740.42 .C68 2012
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Title
Growing art, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / Ludovic Coupaye.
Author
Coupaye, Ludovic.
ISBN
9780857457332 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857457349 (e-book)
9780857457349 (e-book)
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
DU740.42 .C68 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.89/912
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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