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E-book: Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives [Taylor & Francis e-book]

  • Format: 224 pages
  • Pub. Date: 18-Jun-1998
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315022598
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  • Format: 224 pages
  • Pub. Date: 18-Jun-1998
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315022598
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
1. INTRODUCTION
1(24)
2. THE BETEL BAG A Sack for Souls and Stories
25(34)
3. DOMESTICATING ANIMALS AND WIVES Women's Fables of Protest
59(24)
4. THE ROYAL SNAKE SHROUD Local Weaving and Colonial Kingship
83(32)
5. SPINDLES AND SPINSTERS The Loss of Romantic Love
115(22)
6. THE DRUM AND MASCULINITY A Healer's Story
137(24)
7. GREEN BOTTLES AND GREEN DEATH Modernity and the Ephemeral
161(22)
8. CONCLUSIONS Stories and Objects in Lived Dualities
183(16)
REFERENCES 199(12)
INDEX 211
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.