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How Materials Matter : Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific / Graeme Were

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019] [©2019]

1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)

Englisch

In English

978-1-78920-202-1

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1515/9781789202021

GN663 ; GN663

306.4/60995     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC005000

LOC-SH: Design -- Oceania ; Handicraft -- Oceania ; Material culture -- Oceania ; Pacific Islanders -- Material culture ; Plant products -- Oceania

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions ; Anthropology of Design and Material Culture ; Ethnographic Studies of Plant Materials ; Making ; New Materialities ; Pacific Rim

How does design and innovation shape people's lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people - from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians - work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region