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Made in Niugini - Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 2nd New edition) Loot Price: R4,331
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Made in Niugini - Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 2nd New edition): Paul Sillitoe

Made in Niugini - Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 2nd New edition)

Paul Sillitoe

Series: The Royal Anthropological Institute Series, 2

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This impressive and inspiring volume has as its modest origins the documentation of a contemporary collecting project for the British Museum. Informed by curators' critiques of uneven collections accompanied by highly variable information, Sillitoe set out with the ambition of recording the totality of the material culture of the Wola of the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea, at a time when the study of artefacts was neglected in university anthropology departments. His achievements, presented in this second edition of Made in Nuigini with a new contextualizing preface and foreword, brought a new standard of ethnography to the incipient revival of material culture studies, and opened up the importance of close attention to technology and material assemblages for anthropology. The `economy' fundamentally concerns the material aspects of life, and as Sillitoe makes clear, Wola attitudes and behaviour in this regard are radically different to those of the West, with emphasis on `maker users' and egalitarian access to resources going hand in hand with their stateless and libertarian principles. The project begun in Made in Niugini, which necessarily restricted itself to moveable artefacts, is continued and extended by the newly published companion volume Built in Niugini, which deals with immoveable structures and buildings. It argues that the study of material constructions offers an unparalleled opportunity to address fundamental philosophical questions about tacit knowledge and the human condition.

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Imprint: Sean Kingston Publishing
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Royal Anthropological Institute Series, 2
Release date: November 2017
Authors: Paul Sillitoe
Dimensions: 273 x 210 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 662
Edition: 2nd New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-907774-89-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 1-907774-89-0
Barcode: 9781907774898

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