ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Tapa Cloth, Maisin Language, Areca Nut
17 Feb 2018
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Anth 1150: chapter 1 fieldwork among the maisin. Cooked with grey tubers, plantains, squash, sweet potatoes, pork, fish a(cid:374)d edi(cid:271)le gree(cid:374)s for the wife"s goi(cid:374)g away party. As food cooked men chewed betelnut, smoking, and talking about their day. Anne (wife) wore decorated bark cloth (tapa) skirt and shirt that the church women and mother union made. Women, men, and children gifted shell ornaments around annes neck and tuck flowers in her bracelets on her arms and legs, placed tapa on her lap showed what makes a culture unique. Maisin people who inhabit uiaku and neighboring villages as (cid:862)tapa people(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of their (cid:272)loth figures that attri(cid:271)ute to their history, interractions with each other, and dealings with the outside world. Tapa cloth has sustained people, connect them to a still vital ancestral past, defines gender roles and the modes of sociability, provides income, stands as a symbol of identity.
