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Machine generated contents note: Methodologies -- Theoretical setting -- Thematic structure -- Engendering people through things -- Gendering Maisin men and women -- Maisin setting -- Food and surroundings -- Settlement -- Social structure -- Outline -- pt. 1 Women and Barkcloth -- 1.M̀aking' women...

Contents note continued: Tapa designs as forms of non-discursive agency -- Tapa production as a performative act -- pt. 2 Materializations and the performance of identity -- 3.Ancestral travels and designs -- Following Clan designs -- Chiefs of the up- and downstream -- Following the ancestors -- Ma...

Contents note continued: Life-cycle rituals: Constituting the person -- 5.Maintaining relationships -- Maisin ideologies of exchange -- Principles of exchange (vina): marawa-wawe and muan -- Kinship relations and exchange -- Reciprocity within the clan -- Reciprocity outside the clan -- Exchanges be...

Contents note continued: pt. 3 Colonial and postcolonial appropriations of tapa -- 7.Colonial collecting: Dialogues of gender and objects -- Colonising and collecting Collingwood Bay: Sir William MacGregor -- Governing Collingwood Bay: William MacGregor -- Collecting British New Guinea: Sir William...

Contents note continued: Tapa as a green commodity -- MICAD: Clan, gender equality and the tapa business -- Crossing boundaries: men making tapa - women representing Maisin -- The advent of male designers -- Crossing boundaries: female representatives -- Transformations of property -- Transformation...