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Author | : Shirley F. Campbell |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2023-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000180832 |
Nearly a century ago, it was predicted that Kula, the exchange of shell valuables in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, would disappear. Not only has this prophecy failed to come true, but today Kula is expanding beyond these island communities to the mainland and Australia.This book unveils the many deep motivations and meanings that lie behind the pursuit of Kula. Focusing upon the visually stimulating carved and painted prow boards that decorate canoes used by the Kula voyagers, Campbell argues that these designs comprise layers of encoded meaning. The unique colour associations and other formal elements speak to Vakutans about key emotional issues within their everyday and spiritual lives. How is mens participation in the Kula linked to their desire to achieve immortality? How do the messages conveyed by the canoe boards converge with those presented in Kula myths and rituals? In what ways do these systems of meaning reveal a male ideology that competes with the prevailing female ideology? Providing an alternative way of understanding the significance of Kula in the Trobriand Islands, The Art of Kula makes an influential new contribution to the ethnography of Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Shirley F. Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781000187465 |
Nearly a century ago, it was predicted that Kula, the exchange of shell valuables in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, would disappear. Not only has this prophecy failed to come true, but today Kula is expanding beyond these island communities to the mainland and Australia.This book unveils the many deep motivations and meanings that lie behind the pursuit of Kula. Focusing upon the visually stimulating carved and painted prow boards that decorate canoes used by the Kula voyagers, Campbell argues that these designs comprise layers of encoded meaning. The unique colour associations and other formal elements speak to Vakutans about key emotional issues within their everyday and spiritual lives. How is mens participation in the Kula linked to their desire to achieve immortality? How do the messages conveyed by the canoe boards converge with those presented in Kula myths and rituals? In what ways do these systems of meaning reveal a male ideology that competes with the prevailing female ideology? Providing an alternative way of understanding the significance of Kula in the Trobriand Islands, The Art of Kula makes an influential new contribution to the ethnography of Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Witold Kula |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1400857732 |
Measures and Men, considers times and societies in which weighing and measuring were meaningful parts of everyday life and weapons in class struggles. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Jutta Malnic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Many times the Trobriand Islanders have been studied and written about, but never before has their story been told this way, from the inside, through the voices of understanding and belonging. Never before has such a wealth of superlative photography presented the life of the Kula Ring, with all its joyful lessons, a rich heritage of practices for survival.
Author | : Alfred Gell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2020-08-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 100032446X |
The Art of Anthropology collects together the most influential of Gell's writings, which span the past two decades, with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise. Gell tracks this imagery across studies of tribal market transactions, dance forms, the iconicity of language and his most recent and groundbreaking analyses of artworks.Written with Gell's characteristic fluidity and grace and generously illustrated with Gell's original drawings and diagrams, the book will interest art historians, sociologists and geographers no less than anthropologists, challenging, as it does, established ideas about exchange, representation, aesthetics, cognition and spatial and temporal processes.
Author | : Giancarlo M. Scoditti |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311086195X |
Author | : Anita Herle |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780824825560 |
Contributors explore the complex relations among Pacific artists, patrons, collectors, and museums over time, as well as the different meanings given to art objects by each.
Author | : Nancy D. Munn |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1986-12-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Reprint of the Cambridge U. Press edition of 1986. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Gunter Senft |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027265895 |
This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s intention to marry the girl so famous for her beauty, on his long journey to Imdeduya’s village and on their tragic love story. The texts are compared with each other with a final focus on the clash between orality and scripturality. Contrary to Kasaipwalova’s fixed poetic text, the oral Imdeduya versions reveal the variability characteristic for oral tradition. This variability opens up questions about traditional stability and destabilization of oral literature, especially questions about the changing role of myth – and magic – in the Trobriand Islanders' society which gets more and more integrated into the by now “literal” nation of Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Karen T. Taylor |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2000-09-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1420036955 |
As the number of stranger-on-stranger crimes increases, solving these crimes becomes more challenging. Forensic illustration has become increasingly important as a tool in identifying both perpetrators and victims. Now a leading forensic artist, who has taught this subject at law enforcement academies, schools, and universities internationally, off