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Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement, 2)

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ISBN-10:

0857457330

ISBN-13:

9780857457332

Author(s): Coupaye, Ludovic
Edition: 1
Released: Aug 01, 2013
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardcover, 376 pages
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What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All come together to form the ‘finished product’ that is displayed, representing what could be an indigenous form of non-verbal ‘sociology’. Engaging with several contemporary anthropological topics (material culture, techniques, arts, aesthetics, rituals, botany, cosmology, Melanesian ethnography), the text also discusses in depth the complex position of the study of ‘technology’ within anthropology.

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