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Masi : cloth of the Vanua / by Jara Hulkenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Suva, Fiji : Pacific Studies Press, 2021Edition: Revised editionDescription: xii, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
ISBN:
  • 9789821011334
  • 9821011330
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 746.41099611 23
LOC classification:
  • GN27 .H85 2021
Contents:
Introducing Masi -- Masi: Cloth of the Vanua -- 'Masi speaks': Analysing the visual qualities of Masi -- Masi: A gift of the women that mediates kinship -- The production and sale of Masi in rural and urban settings -- Historical analysis of the commercialisation of Masi -- Exchange and gifting as sacrifice.
Summary: "This book provides information on the complexity of masi production and its integral place within the cultural traditions of Fiji. As such, it will add substantially to 'our' knowledge; not only about masi, but also Fijian history and cultural traditions... Barkcloth has been produced, used and exchanged throughout Polynesia for millennia. However, under the influence of Christianity, most Polynesian Island groups have stopped producing and using barkcloth. The only countries that have continued the production and use of barkcloth in Polynesia are Tonga and Fiji. This book presents an analysis of the material, immaterial and visual qualities of masi to explain its cultural importance, use, and gradual, though limited, incorporation within Fijis growing money economy. The analysis presented in this book is founded on pre-Christian beliefs and practices in which masi played an important role to mediate between the sacred and profane and was considered the wealth and clothing of the ancestral gods. Influenced by theories taken from material culture and textile studies, this book demonstrates that masi has both material and immaterial qualities."--UBIQ.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199)

Introducing Masi -- Masi: Cloth of the Vanua -- 'Masi speaks': Analysing the visual qualities of Masi -- Masi: A gift of the women that mediates kinship -- The production and sale of Masi in rural and urban settings -- Historical analysis of the commercialisation of Masi -- Exchange and gifting as sacrifice.

"This book provides information on the complexity of masi production and its integral place within the cultural traditions of Fiji. As such, it will add substantially to 'our' knowledge; not only about masi, but also Fijian history and cultural traditions... Barkcloth has been produced, used and exchanged throughout Polynesia for millennia. However, under the influence of Christianity, most Polynesian Island groups have stopped producing and using barkcloth. The only countries that have continued the production and use of barkcloth in Polynesia are Tonga and Fiji. This book presents an analysis of the material, immaterial and visual qualities of masi to explain its cultural importance, use, and gradual, though limited, incorporation within Fijis growing money economy. The analysis presented in this book is founded on pre-Christian beliefs and practices in which masi played an important role to mediate between the sacred and profane and was considered the wealth and clothing of the ancestral gods. Influenced by theories taken from material culture and textile studies, this book demonstrates that masi has both material and immaterial qualities."--UBIQ.

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