Engendering objects : dynamics of barkcloth and gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea / Anna-Karina Hermkens.
Material type: TextPublisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789088901461Subject(s): Maisin (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies | Maisin (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs | Sex differences (Psychology) -- Papua New GuineaGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: DU744.35.M32 | H47 2013Online resources: Click to ViewSlightly revised edition of PhD-thesis: Engendering objects. Barkcloth and the dyanmics of identity in Papua New Guinea (2005), Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Includes bibliographical references.
part 1. Women and barkcloth -- part 2. Materializations and the performance of identity -- part 3. Colonial and postcolonial appropriations of tapa.
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