Janet Hoskins

Biographical Objects

How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780415920124
• ISBN-10: 0415920124
• Artikelnr.: 21425164

Autorenporträt

Janet Hoskins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars,History and Exchange (1993), winner of the 1996 Benda prize in Southeast Asian studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Betel Bag
Chapter 3 Domesticating Animals and Wives
Chapter 4 The Royal Snake Shroud
Chapter 5 Spindles and Spinsters
Chapter 6 The Drum and Masculinity
Chapter 7 Green Bottles and Green Death
Chapter 8 Conclusions