Growing art, displaying relationships
Subtitle: yam technology in Nyamikum Abelam (ESP, PNG)
By: Ludovic Coupaye
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780857457332; 9780857457349
Subjects: Art and anthropology; Social life and customs; Ethnology; Abelam (Papua New Guinean people); Agriculture; Yams
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.