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Iban Art

Door Michael Heppell e.a.

Iban Art
CategorieAlgemeen Kunst
Boeknummer#433683
TitelIban Art: Sexual Selection and Severed Heads : Weaving, Sculpture, Tattooing and Other Arts of the Iban of Borneo
AuteurHeppell, Michael & Limbang Anak Melaka & Enyan Anak Usen
BoektypeGebonden hardcover met stofomslag
UitgeverijLeiden/Amsterdam : Art Books C. Zwartenkot/Kit Publishers
Jaar van uitgave2005
ISBN10906832540X
ISBN139789068325409
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingOriginal gilt lettered black boards, dust jacket, illustrations in colour, 4to.
SamenvattingThe author describes the ikat, sungkit, pilih, and other forms of Iban weaving, the sculptures, the tattooing, metal forging, and other art of the Iban in the context of their oral sagas, stories, poetry, and love songs. He shows how art was used as a pre-literate scholastic aptitude test to ensure intelligent Iban married other intelligent Iban to increase the likelihood that their children were intelligent and were more likely to prosper. Women also chose men on the basis of their prowess at war to ensure the household, physically, was secure. That meant heads and headhunting. The book shows how weaving and headhunting came to be ritualized, the one encouraging the other, so that sexual selection was bound into the Iban's holy trinity of taking heads, growing rice, and birth or regeneration.
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