Unwrapping Tongan barkcloth encounters, creativity and female agency / Fanny Wonu Veys.

• Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pathways -- Blurry edges -- Structure of the book -- PART ONE Encounters -- 1 Awakening European minds -- European impressions -- The quest for barkcloth names -- The ancestry of barkcloth -- 2 Creating barkcloth -- The story of a tree -- The substance of color -- Rubbing boards -- Sticky stuff -- Supersizing it -- Working together -- 3 Collecting barkcloth -- Enticing cloth -- Barkcloth appropriations-the Alexander Shaw books -- The "Spanish Lake" -- Lost collections? -- Decreasing interest -- Beachcombers, merchants, and whalers -- Missionaries -- Collecting souvenirs -- PART TWO Creativity -- 4 Creativity in shapes and forms -- Tongan-style barkcloth -- Barkcloth design through time -- Barkcloth circulation -- Imagining and forging the Tongan land -- 5 Between the cross and the cloth -- Before missionary arrival -- Missionary failure and uncertainties, 1797-1827 -- Triumphant Christianity, 1828-1860 -- "Civilizing mission," gender, industriousness, and economic policies -- Creating beautiful and moral bodies -- Missionary attitudes and an east-west divide -- Wesleyan and Marist competition -- Barkcloth-a way of being in the world -- PART THREE Female Agency -- 6 Capturing the "female essence"? -- Enveloped by ngatu -- Defining koloa -- The value of koloa -- Are koloa gendered? -- 7 A feast for the senses -- A modern dynasty of royals -- Royal ceremonies-a wedding, two funerals, and a coronation -- characteristics of barkcloth -- Conflated sensations -- Conclusion-encounters, creativity, and female agency -- Encounters-surprising and vital concurrences -- Creativity-ingenious imagination -- Female agency-prestigious mediation -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index 

Ämnesord

Tapa  -- Tonga. (LCSH)

Tapa  -- Social aspects -- Tonga. (LCSH)

Women  -- Tonga -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Material culture  -- Tonga. (LCSH)

Baststoff  (gnd)

Frau  (gnd)

Kreativität  (gnd)

Sachkultur  (gnd)

Tapa  (gnd)

Frau.  (swd)

Tonga  (gnd)

Geschichte  (swd)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Material culture

Tapa

Tapa

Women

Klassifikation

GN432 (LCC)

306.4/6099612 (DDC)

21.86 (bcl)

73.29 (bcl)

Mv (kssb/8 (machine generated))