Biographical Objects : How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415920124
ISBN-13
9780415920124
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 11th, 1998
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.70 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesGender studies, gender groupsEthnic studies
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In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions.
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.
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