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Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Made in Niugini: Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Sillitoe, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Rai, Book 2

Technology & EngineeringAnthropologyArchaeology

ISBN10: 1907774890
ISBN13: 9781907774898
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 30 2017
Pages: 662
Weight: 3.77
Height: 1.44 Width: 8.25 Depth: 10.75
Language: English

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 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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