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9780415920124

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

by Hoskins,Janet
  • ISBN13:

    9780415920124

  • ISBN10:

    0415920124

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1998-05-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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 autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introductionp. 1
The Betel Bag: A Sack for Souls and Storiesp. 25
Domesticating Animals and Wives: Women's Fables of Protestp. 59
The Royal Snake Shroud: Local Weaving and Colonial Kingshipp. 83
Spindles and Spinsters: The Loss of Romantic Lovep. 115
The Drum and Masculinity: A Healer's Storyp. 137
Green Bottles and Green Death: Modernity and the Ephemeralp. 161
Conclusions: Stories and Objects in Lived Dualitiesp. 183
Referencesp. 199
Indexp. 211
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