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Jacobs, Karen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1794-3078
(2011)
Transacting Creations: The Kamoro Arts Festival (1998-2006) in Papua.
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 12 (4).
pp. 363-382.
ISSN 1444-2213
Abstract
The Kamoro Arts Festival was organised annually between 1998 and 2006 by the Freeport mining company, which exploits the Amungme and Kamoro region on the southwest coast of Papua. The festival aimed to revive Kamoro culture and provide a market to purchase Kamoro carvings for invited VIP guests. By analysing the Kamoro Arts Festival as a social interaction, this paper investigates the role of the festival format on the production of carvings. These carvings are testimonies of historical and political changes while expressing enduring Kamoro values. Even though the festival is no longer organised, its study reveals some core issues of Kamoro reciprocity.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art History and World Art Studies (former - to 2014) |
| Depositing User: | Katherine Humphries |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2012 10:50 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jun 2024 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40214 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14442213.2011.586358 |
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