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Author_Shirley F. Campbell
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ethnography
Form C3
Garden Magician
gender ideology studies
Hermit Crab
indigenous material culture
Individual Carvers
John Kasaipwalova
Kula Expedition
Kula Men
Kula Partners
Master Carver
Melanesian art
Men's Yams
mortuary canoe prow symbolism
Ocean Beach
Outrigger Canoe
painted prow boards
Pandanus Streamer
Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby
Possessive Form
Reverend George Brown
ritual exchange systems
Seed Yams
Shell Valuables
symbolic anthropology
Trobriand Islands
visual semiotics
Wild Yam
Yam House
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859735138
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Shirley F. Campbell Research Fellow, Australian National University
