Hermkens, Anna-Karina.

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.


Electronic books.

DU744.35.M32 / H47 2013