Velvet Bonds: The Chinese Family - Hardcover

Saso, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824816633 ISBN 13: 9780824816636

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000

Synopsis

Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two especially productive. This situates the ethnography of the two areas within a comparative framework and examines the relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and ""place"" - an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge serve to protect and augment cultural property and the proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural nation states.

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Review

"Rich, scholastically challenging, and another milestone in the journey towards clarity in our understanding of the sense-making processes and products of ourselves and others."

About the Author

Rumsey is Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824816633
• ISBN 13: 9780824816636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160