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Title Sinuous objects : revaluing women's wealth in the contemporary Pacific / edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens & Katherine Lepani.

Publication Info. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 292 pages) : colour illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ANU Press Pacific series
Pacific series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction : Revaluing womens wealth in the contemporary Pacific / Anna Karina Hermkens, Katherine Lepani -- Doba and ephemeral durability : the enduring material value of womens work in the Trobriand regenerative economy / Katherine Lepani -- Doing away with doba? : womens wealth and shifting values in Trobriand mortuary distributions / Michelle MacCarthy -- Poem : Doba Trobriand skirts / Katherine Lepani -- Womens wealth and moral economies among the Maisin in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea / Anna Karina Hermkens -- Revaluing pots : Wanigela women and regional exchange / Elizabeth Bonshek -- The extraordinary values of ordinary objects : string bags and pandanus mats as Korafe womens wealth? / Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone -- Poem : making the mark / Tessa Miller -- Capturing the female essence? : textile wealth in Tonga / Fanny Wonu Veys -- Passing on, and passing on wealth : compelling values in Tongan exchange / Ping Ann Addo -- Cook Islands Tivaivai and the haircutting ceremony in Auckland : ritual action, money and the parameters of value / Jane Horan -- Poem : Urohs language / Emelihter Kihleng -- Epilogue : Sinuous objects, sensuous bodies : revaluing womens wealth across time and place / Margaret Jolly.
Note Print version record.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Women -- Pacific Area -- Social conditions.
Pacific Area -- Social life and customs.
Oceania -- Social life and customs.
Femmes -- Pacifique, Région du -- Conditions sociales.
Pacifique, Région du -- Mœurs et coutumes.
Océanie -- Mœurs et coutumes.
Anthropology.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Gender studies: women.
Groupings linked by seas.
Other geographical groupings, oceans and seas.
Pacific Rim countries.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Manners and customs
Women -- Social conditions
Oceania https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfGXyKwjqFR47VVfYDpfq
Pacific Area
Added Author Hermkens, Anna-Karina, 1969- editor.
Katherine, Lepani, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Sinuous objects. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017 9781760461331 (OCoLC)990329286
ISBN 9781760461348 (pdf)
1760461342 (pdf)
9781760461331
1760461334
Standard No. AU@ 000060076220
GBVCP 1008668842

 
    
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