دانلود کتاب Androgynous Objects: String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
ONE String bags, material culture and gender: an introduction
• The string bag in Papua New Guinea
• The analytical framework
TWO The Telefol and their bilums
• The female/male distinction in Telefol life
• Telefol myth and the origin of the bilum
• Telefol bilums: an emic classification
THREE Open loops, open lives: production in the female realm
• The social context of production
• Raw materials
• Turning string
• Looping a bilum
• Transmission of looping skills
FOUR Elaborations: production in the male realm
• The social context of production
• Raw materials
• Elaborating a bird feather bilum
• Production of the secret, sacred bilum
FIVE A good bilum is like a good woman: the social value of women\'s bags
• Utilitarian value
• Aesthetic value
• The bilum and womanness
• The centrality of the bilum as a gift
SIX The bilum is our mother: the social value of men\'s bags
• The concept of multiple authorship
• The bird feather bilum
• The value attributed to the secret, sacred bilums
SEVEN The loops of integration
• Two models of social relations
Appendices
• The technology of looping
• Telefol looping techniques
• The named types and sub-types of Telefol bilums
• Telefol myths
References
Index