Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth: Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency
Author:   Fanny Wonu Veys (National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781474283328


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 January 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Fanny Wonu Veys (National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781474283328


ISBN 10:   1474283322
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction ENCOUNTERS 2. Awakening European Minds 3. Creating Barkcloth 4. Collecting Barkcloth CREATIVITY 5. Creativity in Shapes and Forms 6. Between the Cross and the Cloth FEMALE AGENCY 7. Capturing the ‘Female Essence’? 8. A Feast for the Senses 9. Conclusion: Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index

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This inter-disciplinary study focuses on dynamic processes encompassed in the complex materiality of Tongan barkcloth. The author synthesizes archival, photographic, ethnographic, and museum object data to highlight how contemporary textiles impact humans’ senses. She deftly theorizes the objects’ roles in Tongan historical encounters, notions of creativity, and female agency. -- Ping-Ann Addo, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA


This inter-disciplinary study focuses on dynamic processes encompassed in the complex materiality of Tongan barkcloth. The author synthesizes archival, photographic, ethnographic, and museum object data to highlight how contemporary textiles impact humans' senses. She deftly theorizes the objects' roles in Tongan historical encounters, notions of creativity, and female agency. -- Ping-Ann Addo, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA


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Fanny Wonu Veys is Curator Oceania at the National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands. She is President of the Pacific Arts Association Europe and has been a research fellow at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, France and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA.

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