Biographical objects : how things tell the stories of people's lives

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Biographical objects : how things tell the stories of people's lives

Janet Hoskins

Routledge, 1998

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index

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ISBN 9780415920117

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415920124

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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 Objects is 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

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 The Betel Bag
  • Chapter 3 Domesticating Animals and Wives
  • Chapter 4 The Royal Snake Shroud
  • Chapter 5 Spindles and Spinsters
  • Chapter 6 The Drum and Masculinity
  • Chapter 7 Green Bottles and Green Death
  • Chapter 8 Conclusions

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