Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships : : Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea / / Ludovic Coupaye.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Coupaye, Ludovic,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Prolegomenon --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Getting There, Meeting the Things --; 1 Of Yams and Ethnography --; 2 Objects, Technology and Art --; 3 JËBAA (Work) Processes of Materialisation --; 4 Collectives as Components --; 5 WAAPI SAAKI Aligning Relationships --; 6 Of Properties of Artefacts Food, Valuables and Images --; Conclusion: Displays and Sprouts --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857457349; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857457349
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ludovic Coupaye.

What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts acquire their specific properties through processes that mobilise and recruit diverse entities, substances and domains. All come together to form the ‘finished product’ that is displayed, representing what could be an indigenous form of non-verbal ‘sociology’. Engaging with several contemporary anthropological topics (material culture, techniques, arts, aesthetics, rituals, botany, cosmology, Melanesian ethnography), the text also discusses in depth the complex position of the study of ‘technology’ within anthropology.