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MUNDANE OBJECTS

Critical Cultural Heritage Series

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Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal

Communication

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MUNDANE OBJECTS

Materiality and Non-verbal Communication

Pierre Lemonnier

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Contents

List of Illustrations 7

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction

13 Chapter 1. Too Sturdy To Be Mundane: A Baruya Garden Fence 21 Chapter 2. Entwined by Nature: Eels, Traps, and Ritual 45

Chapter 3. The Anthropological Complexity of 63

Unremarkable Drums

Chapter 4. Artefacts as Images or How to Relate Relations 77 Chapter 5. Race Cars, Dinky Toys, and Aging Boys 99 Chapter 6. What Materiality Means: Objects as Resonators 119 Chapter 7. What"s New? Blurring Anthropological Borders 133 but Keeping “

Technology" in Mind

Chapter 8. The Paradox of Marginal Changes 149

Notes 169

References

179
Index 193

About the Author 205

To the Memory of Serge Cleuziou

(1945-2009)

Illustrations

Figure 1.Baruya garden.22

Figure 2.

Baruya men collectively building a takola garden barrier.24

Figure 3.

Baruya women preparing rope of lianas in a stream. 25

Figure 4.Pitpit fence.26

Figure 5. Men collectively building a

takola barrier.27

Figure 6.

Adjusting a horizontal plank between two

vertical posts.28

Figure 7.

An Ivori garden fence.29

Figure 8.

A Baruya nontraditional “Chimbu-style" fence. 34

Figure 9.

Baruya woman carrying fence posts from an old

garden to a new plot.35

Figure 10.

A Baruya woman digging out pitpit stumps with

her digging-stick.36

Figure 11.

Cooperative work during construction of a Baruya

couple"s house.38

Figure 12.

An Ankave man opening a new garden site alone

in the forest. 39

Figure 13.

Baruya men during the construction of the tsimia

ceremonial house.40

Figure 14. Young

Baruya initiates helping to make a garden fence. 41

Figure 15.

An Ankave eel trap and its different parts.46

Figure 16.

Apatse prepares a hole in the future door of a trap. 48

Figure 17.

Apatse closes the trap door by pulling the rattan rope connecting it to the bait.49

Figure 18.

Apatse"s wife, Modeni, goes into the forest at night to catch frogs for bait.50 Figure 19.Apatse installs the springs of the traps prior to the rapid ritual done by his wife.50

Figure 20.

Apatse attaches a living frog to the T-shaped part of the trigger mechanism.52

Figure 21.

Apatse slides one of his traps into the stream before wedging it into place.53 Figure 22. Various kinds of spiralling rattan at the “mouth" of the trap.55

Figure 23.

Drum-beating songen ceremony at Ayakupna'wa. 64

Figure 24. While most people circle and beat drums, others rest near fires and chew betel nut.68

Figure 25.

The arms of the newimbere" mask attract the spirit of the recent dead.69

Figure 26. Once the

pisingen siwi" has been driven away, the living feast on sweet potatoes and tubers.70

Figure 27.

Drum-beating night after night in a deafening

atmosphere.74

Figure 28.

Building the tsimia during the Baruya male rituals. 79

Figure 29.

Each holding a sacred kwaimatnie, three Baruya

“Great Men" of the

Tsatse clan transmit the powers of

the

Sun into the novices' bodies.80

Figure 30.

Ankave ipane initiates are allowed to approach women once they have left the ceremonial lodge.81 Figure 31. Mark's sacred object contains the formidable powers of primordial ancestors.83quotesdbs_dbs50.pdfusesText_50

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