- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
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 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 by both Telefol women and men to explore, and so explain the complexities and ambiguities inherent in their social life.
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Index
aam bal men (see also mouthband bilum) 46, 52–55, 58–60, 67, 70–71, 78, 81–83, 91, 98, 104, 114, 124, 130–131, 133–134, 138–142, 145, 147, 151–152, 157, 161, 164, 173, 191, 203, 207, 219, 221–222
Abau 6–7, 93
Abelam 14–15, 60, 64, 68, 142–144, 185, 203
accomplish(ment) 61, 100, 103, 141, 188
achievement(s) 15, 20, 42, 50, 106, 129, 147–148, 164, 191–192, 203, 223
Aceros plicatus (see also hornbill) 49, 115, 172
adornment 2, 15, 162
aesthetic 10, 27, 71, 73, 98, 103–105, 107, 132–135, 138, 141, 162–163, 191, 202
aesthetically 8, 53, 60, 70, 73, 105, 132, 134, 143, 216
afaang men, 47, 220
Afek 33, 36, 42, 44–45, 50, 52, 61, 64, 104, 111, 122–123, 140, 146–148, 171, 173, 175–179, 181, 183–188, 193, 201, 223–227
Afek’s womb 173, 178
alienation/alienable, 40, 150–151, 158–159
altitude zones (see also ecological zones) 38, 69, 72
amulet(s) 1, 6, 11, 17–18, 46–48, 53, 55, 104, 115–116, 123, 216, 220, 223
ancestor(s) 10–12, 15...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- ONE tring bags, material culture and gender: an introduction
- TWO The Telefol and their bilums
- THREE Open loops, open lives: production in the female realm
- FOUR Elaborations: production in the male realm
- FIVE A good bilum is like a good woman: the social value of women’s bags
- SIX The bilum is our mother: the social value of men’s bags
- SEVEN The loops of integration
- Appendices
- References
- Index