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100 1 Hermkens, Anna-Karina,|d1969-|0https://id.loc.gov/
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245 10 Engendering Objects :|bDynamics of Barkcloth and Gender
among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea.
264 1 Havertown :|bSidestone Press,|c2013.
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500 Colonising and collecting Collingwood Bay: Sir William
MacGregor.
505 0 Acknowledgments; Engendering Objects; Introduction;
Research Topic and theoretical setting; Methodologies;
Theoretical setting; Thematic structure; Engendering
people through things; Gendering Maisin men and women;
Maisin setting; Food and surroundings; Settlement; Social
structure; Outline; List of figures; Part 1; Women and
Barkcloth; Chapter 1; 'Making' women; Conceiving bodies;
Male versus female substances and descent; Constituting
the person; Gendering children's bodies; Initiating girls;
Making women and men; Marking women's bodies; Dangerous
bodies: Female sexuality.
505 8 Gendered ways of thought and speechOn being good husbands
and wives; The performativity of gender; Chapter 2; Women
making barkcloth; Making tapa; From tree to cloth;
Designing the cloth; Tattoos and tapa designs; Decorating
and painting the cloth; Transferring female knowledge; The
past in the present; Learning to draw; Making tapa at
school; Styles of identity: creativity and agency in tapa
designs; Tapa designs as forms of non-discursive agency;
Tapa production as a performative act; Part 2;
Materializations and the performance of identity; Chapter
3; Ancestral travels and designs.
505 8 Following Clan designsChiefs of the up- and downstream;
Following the ancestors; Materialisations of the
patrilineal clan; Who owns wuwusi, the tapa tree?; Drawing
the clan; Female knowledge and creativity; Clan
materialisations: gendered knowledge and practice; Chapter
4; Life-cycle rituals and the performance of identity;
First-born exchanges; Decorating the firstborn child:
totumi and kesevi; Girls' initiation; Performing the
initiated body; Maternal connections?; Marriages and
weddings; The performance of marital exchanges; Death and
mourning rituals; Public mourning.
505 8 Individual mourning: seclusion and re-socialisationMarking
the end of mourning: emergence; Gendered ways of mourning;
Death and mourning exchanges; Life-cycle rituals:
Constituting the person; Chapter 5; Maintaining
relationships; Maisin ideologies of exchange; Principles
of exchange (vina): marawa-wawe and muan; Kinship
relations and exchange; Reciprocity within the clan;
Reciprocity outside the clan; Exchanges between clans;
Exchange relations between affines; Exchanges outside
one's clan and kin; The gender of exchange; Gender and the
production and bartering of objects.
505 8 Betel nut and moneyTapa as gift and commodity; Women in
between; Chapter 6; Church festivals and the performance
of identity; Clan feasts and church festivals; A church
festival in Sefoa; Feasts of exchange; Food and the
expression of relationships; Money and tapa; Decorating
the body; Ornaments (nomo); Clan decorations; Performing
the body, performing identity; Moving identities;
Individual versus collective identities; The female body
as a male display; Part 3; Colonial and postcolonial
appropriations of tapa; Chapter 7; Colonial collecting:
Dialogues of gender and objects.
520 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.
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Objects : Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the
Maisin of Papua New Guinea.|dHavertown : Sidestone Press,
©2013|z9789088901454
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