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 that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people's identities, such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9088901457
• ISBN13: 9789088901454
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Sidestone Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.0"