Janet HoskinsBiographical Objects
How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives
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.
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
