Engendering objects - Anna-Karina Hermkens

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Engendering objects - Anna-Karina Hermkens

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Engendering objects.
Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea by Anna-Karina Hermkens

Engendering Objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture.
Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths (tapa) that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it elucidates the close relationships between these cloths and Maisin people.
The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people’s identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.
In contributing to the current debates on the anthropology of ‘art’, this study offers an alternative way of understanding the significance of an object, like decorated tapa, in shaping and defining people’s identities within a local colonial and postcolonial setting of Papua New Guinea.

“Engendering Objects is among the most comprehensive and innovative new works emerging from Melanesia examining the intimate connections between material culture, cultural identity and gendered personhood. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and examination of museum collections, Anna-Karina Hermkens traces the enduring yet innovative place of tapa (barkcloth) among the Maisin people. Written with warm compassion and immediacy, the book is a theoretically provocative, accessible and compelling portrait of changing life in a Papua New Guinean village society.” – John Barker, University of British Columbia “This book makes a most welcome contribution to the study of the materiality by showing how gender is performed in the sensuous terms of clothing, food, and the exchange of objects. Anna-Karina Hermkens accomplishes this with enviable care and intellectual resources, and a prose and ethnography that make the book a pleasure to read.” – David Morgan, Duke University

The book is also freely accessible in the Sidestone E-library: http://www.sidestone.com/library/
Engendering objects. Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea
author: Anna-Karina Hermkens
ISBN: 978-90-8890-145-4
price: € 39,95
number of pages: 386
language: English
publication date: May 2013
publisher: Sidestone Press /
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