Classifying the Material

Food, Textiles and Status in North Vanuatu

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2390801
AutoresL Bolton (0009-0008-3912-3776, British Museum, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume6
Fascículo3
Páginas251-268
Data de publicação2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/135918350100600301
OpenAlexW2114442453
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas12

The analytical category 'material culture', and in particular the ways in which different kinds of material culture are classified museologically, need critical examination in the light of specific ethnographic data. In this article, the categories 'food' and 'textiles' are considered in the context of status-alteration systems in east Ambae, Vanuatu. An analysis of the women's status-alteration system huhuru, reveals a categorical association between certain textiles and ritual food, which undercuts the distinction between these two object types as essentially different

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Categorical variable · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies