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Unwrapping Tongan barkcloth : encounters, creativity and female agency /
Tongan barkcloth, made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, still features lavishly in Polynesian ceremonies all over the world. Yet despite the attention paid to this textile in exhibitions, by anthropologists and by art historians, very little is known about its history. This book provi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Maps; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Pathways; Blurry edges; Structure of the book; PART ONE Encounters; 1 Awakening European minds; European impressions; The quest for barkcloth names; The ancestry of barkcloth; 2 Creating barkcloth; The story of a tree; The substance of color; Rubbing boards; Sticky stuff; Supersizing it; Working together; 3 Collecting barkcloth; Enticing cloth; Barkcloth appropriations-the Alexander Shaw books; The "Spanish Lake"; Lost collections?; Decreasing interest.
- Beachcombers, merchants, and whalersMissionaries; Collecting souvenirs; PART TWO Creativity; 4 Creativity in shapes and forms; Tongan-style barkcloth; Barkcloth design through time; Barkcloth circulation; Imagining and forging the Tongan land; 5 Between the cross and the cloth; Before missionary arrival; Missionary failure and uncertainties, 1797-1827; Triumphant Christianity, 1828-1860; "Civilizing mission," gender, industriousness, and economic policies; Creating beautiful and moral bodies; Missionary attitudes and an east-west divide; Wesleyan and Marist competition.
- Barkcloth-a way of being in the worldPART THREE Female Agency; 6 Capturing the "female essence"?; Enveloped by ngatu; Defining koloa; The value of koloa; Are koloa gendered?; 7 A feast for the senses; A modern dynasty of royals; Royal ceremonies-a wedding, two funerals, and a coronation; characteristics of barkcloth; Conflated sensations; Conclusion-encounters, creativity, and female agency; Encounters-surprising and vital concurrences; Creativity-ingenious imagination; Female agency-prestigious mediation; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.