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Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea - Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Ludovic Coupaye
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea - Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
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.
376 pages, 23 figs & ills, 10 tables, 1 map
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 1, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780857457332 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 235 × 25 mm · 666 g |
| Language | English |