Engendering objects : dynamics of barkcloth and gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea /
Anna-Karina Hermkens.
- 1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Slightly 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.
9789088901461
Maisin (Papua New Guinean people)--Rites and ceremonies. Maisin (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs. Sex differences (Psychology)--Papua New Guinea.