Growing art, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / Ludovic Coupaye.
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TextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780857457349 (e-book)Subject(s): Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs | Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) -- Agriculture | Yams -- Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province | Art and anthropology -- Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province | Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- East Sepik Province | East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Growing art, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea.DDC classification: 305.89/912 LOC classification: DU740.42 | .C68 2012Online resources: Click to View 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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