A01=Maureen A. MacKenzie
Author_Maureen A. MacKenzie
Baptist Bible College
Bast Fibres
Category=JBSF
Category=JHM
cross-cultural gender roles
Ding Men
Eclectus Roratus
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gender symbolism analysis
Gnetum Gnemon
Hoop Pine
indigenous artefact studies
King Bird
Lawyer Cane
material culture anthropology
Mesh Gauge
Mesh Looping
Min Peoples
National Library
Papua New Guinea ethnography
Penis Gourd
Ritual Mother
Sexual Complementarity
Social Reproduction
String Bag
symbolic meaning of bilum bags
Taro Tubers
textile production techniques
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9789057022708
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
