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"How does one make powerful and beautiful and artefacts? What is in certain objects that give them the capacity to act simultaneously as symbols, valuables and images? This book answers these questions through joining together anthropology of material culture, anthropology of art and anthropology of techniques in order to study the decorated long yams of the Abelam of the Sepik in a contemporary Papua New Guinea village. It unpacks their process of making, which requires the combination of agricultural techniques, social interactions, and cosmological knowledge, and provides discussion of the complex positions of study of techniques and arts within anthropology"--

Abelam (Papua New Guinean people) --- Yams --- Art and anthropology --- Ethnology --- Abelam (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Ignames --- Art et anthropologie --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Social life and customs --- Agriculture --- Social aspects --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Aspect social --- East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea) --- East Sepik (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Social life and customs. --- Abelam (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Ethnologie --- Papous --- Génie rural --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropology and art --- Dioscorea --- Dioscoreaceae --- Sweet potatoes --- Abelam (New Guinea tribe) --- Abelam (Papua New Guinea people) --- Papuans --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Agriculture. --- Abelam (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Mœurs et coutumes --- East Sepik (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) --- Génie rural. --- Moeurs et coutumes.