Androgynous Objects explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea. The web of meanings "woven" into the string bag is shown to extend beyond women's lives and bodies. It is open to manipulation and reformation in a variety of contexts, and is used both by Telefol women and men to explore, and so explain the complexities and ambiguities inherent in their social life.
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This book provides an interpretative study of a humble string artefact, the looped string bag (bilum) of the Telefol people of central New Guinea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feather bilum, uun kon men, bal men, initiation bilum, bilum fabric, iman ban, dagasaal men, bilum making, looping technology, good bilum, mesh looping, looped bilum, small bilum, looping skills, making bilums, iman men, bilum containing, taro side, looped string bag, ding men, interconnected looping, mesh gauge, joining stitches, cult sacra, wild pandanus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This book provides an interpretative study of a humble string artefact, the looped string bag (bilum) of the Telefol people of central New Guinea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feather bilum, uun kon men, bal men, initiation bilum, bilum fabric, iman ban, dagasaal men, bilum making, looping technology, good bilum, mesh looping, looped bilum, small bilum, looping skills, making bilums, iman men, bilum containing, taro side, looped string bag, ding men, interconnected looping, mesh gauge, joining stitches, cult sacra, wild pandanus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Highlands, Primal Mother, East Sepik Province, Gulf Province, Irian Jaya, Port Moresby, Barry Craig, Christian Rebaibal, Dan Jorgensen, West Sepik Province, Wok Tenbip New!
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- New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Androgynous Objects: String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea (Studies in Anthropology and History) by M. Mackenzie in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Women in Between by Marilyn Strathern on page 22, and Back Matter
- Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski in Back Matter
- Kukukuku of the Upper Watut by Beatrice Blackwood in Back Matter
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- Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (Science and Cultural Theory) by John Law on page 96, and page 114
- Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding by Penny Dransart in Back Matter
- Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Biosocial Society Symposium Series) by Catherine Panter-Brick on page 289
- Textual Life of the Savants (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Gisli Palsson in Front Matter
- Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis (Studies in Anthropology and History) by Karen Fog Olwig in Front Matter
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