Biographical Objects How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives

Name: Biographical Objects How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives
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ISBN: 9780415920124

ISBN-10: 0415920124

ISBN-13: 9780415920124

Edition: 1998

Authors: Janet Hoskins

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In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objectsis an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for…

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/11/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.25" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Betel Bag: A Sack for Souls and Stories



Domesticating Animals and Wives: Women's Fables of Protest



The Royal Snake Shroud: Local Weaving and Colonial Kingship



Spindles and Spinsters: The Loss of Romantic Love



The Drum and Masculinity: A Healer's Story



Green Bottles and Green Death: Modernity and the Ephemeral



Conclusions: Stories and Objects in Lived Dualities


References


Index