Growing artefacts, displaying relationships : yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

"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 anthropolo...

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Main Author: Coupaye, Ludovic (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] : Berghahn , 2013
Series:Material mediations 2
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Related Items:Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Ludovic Coupaye, Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships]
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