Androgynous Objects : String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea

by Maureen A. MacKenzie

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Studies in Anthropology and History

ISBN-10 9057022702

ISBN-13 9789057022708

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 15th, 1998

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 500 grams

Dimensions 24.00 x 17.40 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Gender studies, gender groups Anthropology

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This book explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgymous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of central New Guinea.

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.

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