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Author Hoskins, Janet.

Title Biographical objects : how things tell the stories of people's lives / Janet Hoskins
Published New York : Routledge, 1998

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 W'PONDS  306.09598 Hos/Boh  AVAILABLE
Description x, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The Betel Bag: A Sack for Souls and Stories -- 3. Domesticating Animals and Wives: Women's Fables of Protest -- 4. The Royal Snake Shroud: Local Weaving and Colonial Kingship -- 5. Spindles and Spinsters: The Loss of Romantic Love -- 6. The Drum and Masculinity: A Healer's Story -- 7. Green Bottles and Green Death: Modernity and the Ephemeral -- 8. Conclusions: Stories and Objects in Lived Dualities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-210) and index
Subject Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Kodi.
Ethnology -- Biographical methods.
Material culture -- Indonesia -- Kodi.
SUBJECT Kodi (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88268370 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004833
Kodi (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88268370 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
LC no. 97040989
ISBN 0415920116 hardcover acid-free paper
0415920124 paperback