TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coupaye,Ludovic
TI  - Growing art, displaying relationships: yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea 
AV  - DU740.42 .C68 2012
U1  - 305.89/912 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Abelam (Papua New Guinean people)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Yams
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - East Sepik Province
KW  - Art and anthropology
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - "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"--
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ER  -