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Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads : Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#433683-LJ15
Titel	Iban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads : Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo
Auteur	Heppell, Michael & Limbang Anak Melaka & Enyan Anak Usen
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Leiden/Amsterdam : Art Books C. Zwartenkot/Kit Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	906832540X
ISBN13	9789068325409
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered black boards, dust jacket, illustrations in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting	The author describes the ikat, sungkit, pilih, and other forms of Iban weaving, the sculptures, the tattooing, metal forging, and other art of the Iban in the context of their oral sagas, stories, poetry, and love songs. He shows how art was used as a pre-literate scholastic aptitude test to ensure intelligent Iban married other intelligent Iban to increase the likelihood that their children were intelligent and were more likely to prosper. Women also chose men on the basis of their prowess at war to ensure the household, physically, was secure. That meant heads and headhunting. The book shows how weaving and headhunting came to be ritualized, the one encouraging the other, so that sexual selection was bound into the Iban's holy trinity of taking heads, growing rice, and birth or regenerat... (Lees verder)ion.
Pagina's	180
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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