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Author Coupaye, Ludovic

Title Growing art, displaying relationships : yam technology in Nyamikum Abelam (ESP, PNG) / Ludovic Coupaye
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Series Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Contents Illustrations; Prolegomenon; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Getting There, Meeting the Things; Chapter 1 -- Of Yams and Ethnography; Chapter 2 -- Objects, Technology and Art; Chapter 3 -- Jëbba (Work): Processes of Materialisation; Chapter 4 -- Collectives as Components; Chapter 5 -- Waapi Saaki: Aligning Relationships; Chapter 6 -- Of Properties of Artefacsts: Food, Valuables and Images; Conclusion -- Displays and Sprouts; Bibliography; Index
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"-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture
Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs
Art and anthropology -- Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province
Yams -- Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs
Art and anthropology
Ethnology
Manners and customs
Yams
Abelam
Sachkultur
Ackerbau
Ästhetik
Verwandtschaft
Ritual
East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs
Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province
Papua-Neuguinea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0857457349
9780857457349