Cultural History In Focus | “Perspectives on the Gift in Indonesia and Beyond” by Paul Michael Taylor, from “The Gift as Material Culture” (Yale-Smithsonian Reports on Material Culture, No. 4)

 

Shrine Figure | Tavu | Maluku
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 
 

Perspectives on the Gift in Indonesia and Beyond

 
 

from

The Gift as Material Culture
(Yale-Smithsonian Reports
on Material Culture, No. 4)

by Paul Michael Taylor

 
 

This article is generously provided by Paul Michael Taylor.

This and other publications by Paul Michael Taylor can be found on his Academia profile.

 

Female Ancestor Figure with Child | Itara | Atauro
© de Young Museum, FAMSF | California, USA

Beaded Ceremonial Cloth | Palepai Maju | Lampung, South Sumatra
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, USA

Ceremonial Cloth | Tampan | Lampung, South Sumatra
© Yale University Art Gallery | Connecticut, USA

Ceremonial Cloth | Tampan | Lampung, South Sumatra
© Yale University Art Gallery | Connecticut, USA

Shrine Figure | Tavu | Maluku
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Shrine Figure | Tavu | Maluku
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Shrine Figure | Tavu | Maluku
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Man’s Bracelet | Batak | North Sumatra
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Man’s Bracelet | Batak | North Sumatra
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Man’s Bracelet | Batak | North Sumatra
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Woman’s Ceremonial Sarong | Lau Pahudu | Sumba
© Yale University Art Gallery | Connecticut, USA

Man’s Ceremonial Ikat Mantle | Hinggi | Sumba
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Pennant with Beaded Figures | Sumba
© Yale University Art Gallery | Connecticut, USA

 
 

Paul Michael Taylor

 
 
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Paul Michael Taylor is research anthropologist (researcher) at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History; Curator of Asian, European, and Middle Eastern Ethnology; and head of that museum’s Asian Cultural History Program.

An author or editor of numerous books and scholarly articles on the ethnography, ethnobiology, linguistic anthropology, and art or material culture of Asia; curator of twenty-one museum exhibitions (including five online virtual exhibitions); and anthropologist consultant for ethnographic films.

 
 
 
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Author | Paul Michael Taylor
Editors | Patricia Thatcher and Paul Michael Taylor with Cynthia Adams Hoover
Publication | Yale-Smithsonian Reports on Material Culture, No. 4. New Haven, CT/Washington, D.C.
Date of Publication | 1995