Fashion as Fetish: The agency of modern clothing and traditional body decoration among North Mekeo of Papua New Guinea

Contemporary Pacific

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-83

  Mosko, Mark S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Change; Clothing; Commodification; Fashion; Personhood; Ritual

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; GLOBALIZATION; MODERNIZATION; NATION STATE;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 33947208029     PISSN: 1043898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cp.2007.0028     Document Type: Article

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