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The Concept of Taboo in Raga, Vanuatu: Semantic Mapping and Etymology Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Marie‐France Duhamel
This article discusses the two terms that convey the concept of taboo in Raga, the language of north‐central Vanuatu originally spoken in north Pentecost, and provides linguistic evidence expanding on the information published previously by the anthropologists Masanori Yoshioka and John Patrick Taylor. Based on the corpus collected in north Pentecost in the period 2015–2017, and on older ethnographic
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Leadership in Absentia: Negotiating Distance in Centralized Solomon Islands Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis, Geoffrey Hobbis
This article examines a tension at the heart of national leadership in Solomon Islands today: a conviction that national leaders need to spend more time in rural environments to better represent rural interests, needs and values, while having to be in town to access the individuals and organizations that, essentially, make them national leaders in the first place. Drawing on fourteen months of ethnographic
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As Basket and Papu: Making Manus Social Fabric Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
Between 2012 and 2019, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, hosted Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers and refugees, known as the Regional Processing Centre (RPC). This paper analyses some of the social impacts of the RPC on Lorengau town, the urban centre of Manus, through the analytical lens of the Manus idiom, as basket (Tok Pisin). Materially this refers to the everyday Manus basket
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Corrigendum Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-13
In Dean (2020), the Author Biography section was omitted. The text is given below: Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean is currently working with the UNDP Accelerator Lab, Pacific office based in Suva, Fiji, as Head of Community Research and Ethnographic Solutions Mapping. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Waikato in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Mohseen’s cross‐disciplinary PhD thesis drew upon the agronomic
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How the Missionary got his Mana: Charles Elliot Fox and the Power of Name‐Exchange in Solomon Islands Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Michael W. Scott
Charles Elliot Fox (1878–1977) was one of the Anglican Melanesian Mission's most emblematic figures, extending its reputation for scholarship and respect for Pacific traditions. Uniquely among the Mission's European figures, however, Fox is also credited with exceptional powers (mana). Based on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork among the Arosi (Makira, Solomon Islands), I argue that Fox's
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Introducing Oceanic Societies in COVID‐19 Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Ute Eickelkamp, Sophie Chao
The Oceanic region sustains the lowest number of coronavirus infections worldwide, with Pacific Island Countries and Territories registering 3,057 COVID‐19 cases as of 8 September 2020, Australia counting 26,651 and Aotearoa/New Zealand 1,797—a small fraction of the 28,789.698 reported cases across the globe (but disregarding the 260,000 cases in the Philippines not covered here). Yet as the reports
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Viral Devotionality and Christian Solidarity in/beyond Borneo Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Liana Chua
As COVID‐19 began to spread across Malaysia in early‐2020, Jesus began to materialize with increasing frequency on my Facebook feed. A familiar figure with light skin, beard, long hair, and flowing robes, He appeared in many classic poses: praying, healing the sick, carrying a cross, crucified. Overlaid onto these images, however, were references to a disease that we have only recently come to know:
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From the Bubble to the Hearth: Social Co‐Presence in the Era of COVID‐19 in Asmat, Indonesian Papua Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Tom Powell Davies
1 INTRODUCTION For Asmat people in Indonesian Papua—hunter gatherers who live in and around approximately 220 village settlements in the mangrove swamps of Papua's coastal and lowland southwest—the spatio‐temporal organization of social co‐presence is a key problematic of everyday life. In a social world in which kin groups often disperse themselves across the riverine environment in which they live
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Madang Art Maniacs Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Robert Banasi, Edward P. Wolfers
Madang Art Maniacs (MAM) is a team of more than 40 young artists and volunteers who live in the area around Madang, the administrative centre of Madang Province, on the north coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. Founded in December 2019 at the initiative of Robert Banasi, MAM initially consisted of a small group of graduates in Creative Arts at the University of Papua New Guinea who came together to
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The Great Mask Debate – To Wear or Not to Wear? Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Gregory Waula Bablis
Masks have always been important aspects of Papua New Guinean societies—be it in terms of their ceremonial uses in singsings (traditional dances or festivals) or in the more tourist‐oriented festivals happening today. All regions of Papua New Guinea had different types of masks, from whole‐body masks to very small ones. Each served different kinds of purposes. For instance, masks were used to entertain
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The Crows Steal our Easter Eggs Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Eve Vincent
May 2020. I've spent isolation in Sydney, teaching anthropology units online and home‐schooling two children. I offer here a set of personal observations from a vantage point never more limited in this anti‐ethnographic moment. I begin in the home and radiate outwards to the suburb, its edges, and beyond—to the permeable border and the nation state's next door.
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COVID‐19 and Re‐Storying Economic Development in Oceania Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Tarcisius Kabutaulaka
1 STORIES Let me tell you a story. But before I do that, let me tell you why stories are important. You see, stories frame our beliefs, understandings, and relationships with each other and the world around us. Our existence is layered with personal and collective stories. Our personal stories are woven with those of others, making it impossible to have a truly individual story—our lives are interwoven
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COVID‐19 and the Marshallese Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Ola Gunhildrud Berta, Elise Berman, Albious Latior
Iọkwe, I'm one of the many poultry workers that haven't been paid. I've worked at Ozark [a poultry factory] in Fayetteville for six months now. Last month, I was feeling sick and coughing so I went to get tested. The results came back positive. I have quarantined since. I haven't gone back to work because I'm still not feeling well. My wife got tested and she was positive too. She has worked at Tyson
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Border Closures: Experiences of Ni‐Vanuatu Recognized Seasonal Employer Scheme Workers Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Rochelle‐Lee Bailey
Introduction Annually, thousands of people travel from our beautiful Pacific region to access work opportunities in New Zealand's Recognized Seasonal Employer Scheme (RSE). The RSE provides employment opportunities for those in the Pacific Islands to assist with labour shortages in the horticulture and viticulture sectors, with an objective of potential economic development in the Pacific in return
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E tumau le fa'avae ae fesuia'i faiga Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Dion Enari, Aiono Manu Fa'aea
1 INTRODUCTION As Samoan academics, we acknowledge the problematic usage of the term Pasifika. This term does not describe the distinctive, ethnic‐specific nature of each Pacific nation. We also acknowledge the complexities of recording ethnicity itself, given that many people belong to multiple ethnic backgrounds. However, for the purposes of this article, we use the term Pasifika to highlight the
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Food Security in COVID‐19: Insights from Indigenous Fijian Communities Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Ilisoni Leweniqila, Suliasi Vunibola
1 INTRODUCTION The Fiji Islands are transforming from polyculture to commercially oriented monoculture farming systems (McGregor 2020). The issue of food security has emerged as a major concern, exacerbated by vulnerability to climate change and natural disasters. The COVID‐19 crisis has exposed high dependence on imported processed food, which has resulted in problems like hidden hunger and non‐communicable
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Loving during COVID‐19 Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Ramona Boodoosingh
I didn't call today. I was curled up in the blanket that doesn't smell like you anymore, crying until my eyes burned. Happy third year anniversary, my love…..I don't know when I will see you again. Did you see the email from our lawyer? Really nice person, trying to put three terrible options in a hopeful light. Our three terrible options. None of which I can choose right now. They felt like a crushing
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Capturing the Experiences of Samoa: The Changing Food Environment and Food Security in Samoa during the COVID‐19 Pandemic Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Tagialofa Emiliata, Priscilla Asem, Junior Levi, Tamala Iosua, Agalelei Ioane, Valu Seupoai, Mika Eteuati, Pesi Solipo, Tautane Nuu, Ramona Boodoosingh
1 INTRODUCTION The COVID‐19 pandemic is unlike anything most of us have experienced in our lifetimes, apart from those who survived the 1918 flu pandemic. In the pandemic of 2020, Samoa has managed to date to keep the virus away from its shores, untouched by cases within its borders but inextricably linked to the global interwoven whole to which its people belong. With effects across the health sectors
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In the Shadow Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Jackie Faasisila
In the shadow of COVID 19 we fear for the health and well being of family, friends, villages, island communities, our world for people we know and don't know, rich or poor, near and far, in our ocean and beyond for a world that has lost key values, cowered to greed, material comfort and success. We fear for our livelihoods and those of millions whose jobs and incomes have been snatched away and for
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Tongan Collective Mobilities: Familial Intergenerational Connections Before, During, and Post COVID‐19 Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Ruth (Lute) Faleolo
1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to discuss the significance of intergenerational connections for famili11 Famili is a Tongan concept for family that often includes others outside of the nuclear family, including extended family and often close connections in the church or village that a family belongs to. Tonga, as part of their collective mobility.22 This paper only introduces the topic
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Contact Tracing (Honolulu, HI, March 22, 2020) Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Craig Santos Perez
I try not to touch my face while shopping at a crowded Costco. I'm lucky to still have a job, to afford food and rent in the most expensive place in the world to buy toilet paper. Today, the governor issued a work‐from‐home order. Community spread, panic. Yet thousands of tourists continue arriving aboard cheap flights and cruise ships—reservoirs of disease. Not even a pandemic can shutdown paradise
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Unmasking the Essential Realities of COVID‐19: The Pasifika Community in the Salt Lake Valley Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Kēhaulani Vaughn, Jacob Fitisemanu, Inoke Hafoka, Kehaulani Folau
Pacific Islanders in diaspora are disproportionately contracting COVID‐19, experience hospitalization and develop complications. In Utah, Pacific Islanders have the highest contraction rate in the state. Pacific Islanders constitute only 2% of the state's population, but represent 4% of the those infected with COVID‐19, begging the question how we might explain the high rates of contraction? As community
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Bridewealth1 and the Autonomy of Women in Melanesia Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Karen M. Sykes, Christine Jourdan
Considering bridewealth in Melanesia from the angle of women's autonomy, in this introduction we review and analyse the various elements of this marriage practice that reveal its place in the symbolic, social and economic worlds of women. With an accent on social transformation, we discuss women's autonomy and agency in relation to the constraints that bridewealth puts on their lives, and on how they
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Urban Women and the Transformations of Braedpraes1 in Honiara2 Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Christine Jourdan, Fabienne Labbé
In the capital city of the Solomon Islands, brideprice is often given to formalize the marriage of young couples from the island of Malaita. For the young wife, brideprice is a reminder that she is expected to work and produce children for the lineage of her husband, an obligation that is at times strongly impressed upon her by her in‐laws. Data gathered in Honiara over the last 15 years, most recently
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Bridewealth a Pardon: New Relationships and Restoration of Good Daughters Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Nalisa Neuendorf
Bridewealth is recognized as vital in the reproduction and reconfiguration of Pacific environments and women play an integral role in this process. In contemporary Papua New Guinea (PNG), bridewealth is reconfigured by kin to acknowledge the considered actions of women as they enter into relationships with men. This paper will explore how women's choices impact and influence their experience of these
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Brideprice and Prejudice: An Audio‐Visual Ethnography on Marriage and Modernity in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Rosita Henry, Daniela Vávrová
The relationship between bridewealth and women's autonomy is not only discussed amongst anthropologists, development practitioners and other scholars but also amongst brides themselves. Women continue to embrace such marital exchanges, despite their knowledge of ‘modern’ development discourse about the constraints of the practice on women's status and its links to gender‐based violence. This paper
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A Father's Perspective on Bridewealth in the Making of the Transnational Papua New Guinean Household Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Karen M. Sykes
That people value ‘people’ over ‘things’ is argued often by anthropologists, but how people value specific forms and qualities of relations as they do in the example of bridewealth is less so. I explore the perspective of Papua New Guinean‐born fathers in Australia as they advocate innovations in bridewealth traditions and thereby enable daughters to marry for love, cultivate a companionate marriage
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‘On a nos mots à dire’: Kanak Women's Experience of Bridewealth in Lifou Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Anna Paini
Bridewealth in Lifou cannot be discussed on its own; rather it should be considered within the plurality of ceremonial acts which are needed to legitimize a marriage as customary. What do these transactions mean? Where does women's agency lie? Through a longitudinal analysis of ethnographic materials from my fieldwork in Lifou, Loyalty Islands, I consider how Kanak women are engaged in and perceive
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Marriage‐Related Exchanges and the Agency of Women among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Pei‐yi Guo
This article examines the transformation of marriage‐related exchanges and the agency of women among the Langalanga people in the Solomon Islands. The Langalanga perspective is distinctive because they have been the main producers of shell money in the region, and the persistence of bridewealth is important for their economic and cultural lives. Looking into the three essential components: kwatena
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'We've Paid your Vagina to Make Children!ʼ: Bridewealth and Women's Marital and Reproductive Autonomy in Port‐Vila, Vanuatu Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Alice Servy
In Vanuatu, the practice of bridewealth is widespread. However, according to international and national development organizations based in the capital Port‐Vila, this practice impedes women's freedom, including women's reproductive autonomy. In this paper, using data gathered in Port‐Vila between 2009 and 2018, I examine the practice of marriage in Port‐Vila and argue against this development discourse
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Why the Kanak Don't Fear Sharks: Myths as a Coherent but Dangerous Mirror of Nature Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-07-28 Eric Clua, Jean Guiart
This study focuses on the important role of sharks in the Melanesian mythology. Based on unpublished stories essentially originating from New Caledonia, we show how strong the links are between myths and the physical environment in which Kanak live. As prevalent mythical animals, sharks can indifferently play the role of avengers and righters of wrongs, or vehicles for the spirits of living or dead
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Re‐analysing the Baining: The Mytho‐Poetics of Race, Gender and Art Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-07-12 Andrew Lattas
This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho‐poetics of gender and procreation in Mali Baining society are documented by focusing on how art and sexuality are traced onto each other. The formative power of painting, barkcloth, dancing masks
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The Politics of Media Infrastructure: Mobile Phones and Emergent Forms of Public Communication in Papua New Guinea Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-02-17 Robert J. Foster
Recent work in anthropology proposes that the ethnographic study of infrastructure offers a productive way to think about how states and corporations, citizens and consumers, all define their relations and obligations to each other. This article considers the politics of media infrastructure in Papua New Guinea (PNG) by tracing the moral economy of mobile phones. It focuses on (1) how mobile phone
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The ‘Social Construction’ of David Schneider as ‘A Giant of Anthropology’ Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Warren Shapiro
David Schneider is widely regarded as one of the great anthropologists of our times. This article questions this opinion. First it shows that his fieldwork on the Micronesian island of Yap evidences ethnographic insensitivity, particularly on the matter of an alleged ignorance of physiological paternity, thus calling into question his supposed concern with getting at native understandings. The alleged
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Returning the Rock and Protecting the Game: Austronesian Custom and Environmental Governance in Timor‐Leste Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-02-06 Michael Rose
This article explores how in Timor‐Leste the implementation of national law is shaped by local conditions. In Oecussi District, the ability of the state to regulate hunting is both constrained and enabled by the continuing importance of indigenous (meto) socio‐spiritual frameworks ontologically distinct from those assumed to be normative by both the State and outside actors. Through the case study
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Planting Roots, Making Place: Urban Autochthony in Port Vila Vanuatu Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-02-05 Daniela Kraemer
A contentious issue for Pacific Islanders, as well as researchers of the Pacific Islands, is ni‐Vanuatu notions of ‘belonging’ to urban centres. Previous research in Vanuatu has shown that despite generations of people born and raised in Port Vila, the nation's capital, the urban centre is not generally perceived as a ‘place’ to which urban migrants can say they are from. For many, exclaiming that
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Taboo and Descent in the Articulation of Gender Relations: An Eastern Indonesian Case Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-01-22 Gregory Forth
In the Lio region of Flores Island patrilineal groups coexist with taboos on animals and plants inherited through females, a combination previously interpreted as reflecting a system of double unilineal descent. Drawing on ethnography from the Lio district of Mego, maternal taboos are shown to accompany similar prohibitions conceived as a property of patriclans, most of which, however, are incumbent
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From Contentious to Contended: An ‘Event’‐ful Account of Karavaran History Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-11-03 Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz
In 2019, we returned to Karavar, one of Papua New Guinea's Duke of York Islands. Since our last visit 28 years earlier, many with whom we worked had died. However, their children knew about us and were eager for our recollections about the lives and times of their parents. We, in turn, wished to learn about current lives and times. Our conversations, thus, often focused on multi‐generational changes
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Kincentric Ecology, Species Maintenance and the Relational Power of Place in Northern Australia Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-10-21 Amanda Kearney, John Bradley, Liam M. Brady
This paper considers themes of species maintenance and place engagement in Yanyuwa country, northern Australia. It traces the complexity of interpretations and relational contexts involved in places that are commonly – and we argue – misleadingly, referred to as increase and magic sites. Examining one specific place, at which people carry out maintenance rituals, we explore the complex bonds that unite
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Wrathful Ancestors, Corporate Sorcerers: Rituals gone Rogue in Merauke, West Papua Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-10-18 Sophie Chao
Anthropological studies of ritual ‘failure’ challenge the assumed efficacy of ritual in affirming the social order. Drawing from fieldwork in West Papua, I examine the ‘failure’ and ‘success’ of two rain‐making ceremonies – one hosted by an indigenous Marind expert, the other by an Indonesian oil palm corporation. Participants conceived the failure of the first ritual as a punishment meted by ancestral
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Marketplaces and Morality in Papua New Guinea: Place, Personhood and Exchange Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Mark Busse, Timothy L. M. Sharp
In Papua New Guinea (PNG) more rural people, and especially rural women, earn cash from selling in marketplaces than from any other source. PNG's marketplaces are critical for food security, and for the redistribution of wealth. They are also important meeting places where people gather to see friends, hear the latest news, attend court cases, play cards and be entertained. This introduction to this
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Morality and a Mosbi Market Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Fiona Hukula
Markets in Port Moresby like elsewhere in the world provide a space for economic activity and social interaction. This article engages with two moral concerns that arise from the market. Firstly, I present a description of how the ban of the sale of betel nut is being negotiated by vendors and customers alike in the face of threats of violence from enforcement officials such as police. Secondly, I
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Haggling Highlanders: Marketplaces, Middlemen and Moral Economy in the Papua New Guinean Betel Nut Trade Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Timothy L. M. Sharp
The rise of competitive trade practices represents a significant development in Papua New Guinea's marketplaces. Overt competition and haggling, once conspicuous by their near absence, are now commonplace in the country's betel nut marketplaces, and increasingly visible in many of the large urban fresh food marketplaces. This has emerged with the rise of long‐distance and intermediary trading, and
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Morality and the Concept of the Market Seller among Gehamo Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Mark Busse
This paper examines the negative moral evaluations of people who buy and resell fresh food by Gahuku and Gehamo people in and around Goroka, the capital of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. During my fieldwork from 2010 to 2015, vendors in the Goroka fresh food market argued that the value of fresh food should be based on the work that people did to produce it rather than on price competition
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Shame and Care: Masculinities in the Goroka Marketplace Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Olivia Barnett‐Naghshineh
For those women living in villages within accessible range of Goroka town, it is the norm to sell fresh produce in the Goroka market. Fresh produce trading, or maket in Tok Pisin, is common for women throughout the country. To see men selling food in the Goroka market is significantly less common, and those who do, usually sell foods brought from outside of Goroka. The gender divisions that exist in
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Women's and Men's Work: The Production and Marketing of Fresh Food and Export Crops in Papua New Guinea Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 George N. Curry, Gina Koczberski, Susan May Inu
Fresh food markets have been a fixture of the social and economic landscape of urban and rural PNG since colonial times. They were often the first points of engagement with the market economy, especially for women, who as small‐scale producers, sold surplus produce from their food gardens located on communally‐owned land. Although local food markets have remained an important livelihood for women,
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Sharing What Can Be Sold: Women Haus Maket Vendors in Port Moresby's Settlements Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-07-09 Michelle Nayahamui Rooney
Dominant narratives of the economy, as well as policy discourses in Papua New Guinea (PNG), tend to separate the ‘formal’ from the ‘informal’ economy. Concurrently, there is a development policy emphasis on women's economic empowerment. In urban areas this has meant a policy focus on larger market places as sites where women need support for economic engagement. Within these policy discourses, one
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Painting Country: Spatial, Somatic and Linguistic Experience in Central Australian Aboriginal Art Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-03-20 Olwyn Tavendale
A demonstration that the spatial experience informing some Central Australian Aboriginal art is topographically precise brings into question the relevance of structuralist methodologies for appraising these maps of country. Qualitative aspects of spatial, somatic, linguistic and emotional experiences are found to inform the way‐finding depicted in paintings by artists of three language groups.
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The Thomas Souls Ministry – Onto‐praxis, Dividualism, and Charismatic Catholicism at Lake Chambri, Papua New Guinea Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-03-20 Christiane Falck
The Thomas Souls Ministry is a prayer group founded by Catholics from the middle Sepik. It is led by a spirit of the dead called Thomas who takes possession of a Nyaura (West Iatmul) woman to preach, prophesy, counsel, and heal. While a prominent debate within the Anthropology of Christianity argues for radical change and rupture with the pre‐Christian self and society, I suggest that continuity within
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Intimate Consumption and New Sexual Subjects Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-02-11 Gilbert Herdt
This article examines the transformation of sexual meanings, attitudes, norms, and practices surrounding depletion and pollution across decades (1974–2010) among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. In the premodern village, all sexual intercourse, whether with boy‐initiates or women, was ritualized and ultimately controlled by the men's secret society. Intimate consumption refers traditionally to a symbolic
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Roads to Inequality: Infrastructure and Historically Grown Regional Differences in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-01-17 Bettina Beer, Willem Church
Roads are one of the most salient symbols of development and modernity for rural citizens of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Multinational corporations, members of parliament, and villagers frequently point to roads as a key to development. However, while roads routinely improve the incomes of those connected, many of their effects are far less scrutable. Here, we examine the economic and social consequences
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‘Waiting for Jardiwanpa’: History and Mediation in Warlpiri Fire Ceremonies Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2019-01-15 Georgia Curran
Warlpiri fire ceremonies, including Jardiwanpa, have been documented in various ethnographies and films for over 100 years. Focused on the documented history of these rituals in Yuendumu, and through ethnographic observations from recent decades, I analyse the transforming meanings of fire ceremonies in contemporary Warlpiri lives. I demonstrate that there have been post‐settlement shifts in ritual
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Maree's Backyard: Intercultural Collaborations for Indigenous Sovereignty in Melbourne Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-11-26 Sabra Thorner, Fran Edmonds, Maree Clarke, Paola Balla
In this article, four women engage, talk, and write about Indigenous sovereignty in Australia's southeast—the region of Australia most devastated by colonial incursion and the site of vibrant cultural activism in the present day. We are two non‐Indigenous academics (Sabra Thorner and Fran Edmonds) working together with two Indigenous artist‐curators (Maree Clarke and Paola Balla) in a process of collaborative
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A Subject Deferred: Exposure and Erasure in an Ethnographic Archive Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-11-13 Daniel Fisher
From as early as the late 1970s anthropologists and ethnomusicologists have been both analysts of and advocates for institutional worlds of Aboriginal art and media. Keenly aware of the Faustian character ascribed to the Indigenous embrace of media, and attuned to the ironies of its governmental subvention, such work of necessity took shape in dialogue with specific institutional possibilities and
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Governing Indigenous Difference Differently: The Politics of Disgust, Compassion and Care Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-11-08 Eve Vincent
This essay concerns two experimental governmental interventions undertaken in Ceduna, far west South Australia. The first scenario involves a local council initiative, which I argue was designed to expunge public spaces of the presence of disturbing Indigenous bodies, which elicited local disgust. The second case involves a current federal government trial of stringent welfare reform measures. I argue
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The Returns of Recognition: Ngarinyin Experiences of Native Title, Encounter and Indeterminacy in the Kimberley Region of Northern Australia Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-11-08 Cameo Dalley
This article explores a contemporary politics of recognition as it relates to Ngarinyin Aboriginal people of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. I focus on the reflections and experiences of a Ngarinyin man, ‘the Alchemist’, who was involved in a native title claim across the region during the 2000s. Through ethnographic examples drawn from along the Gibb River Road, I show that time
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Raphael Lemkin in Remote Australia: The Logic of Cultural Genocide and Homelands Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-11-04 Jon Altman
In the 1970s, Aboriginal people in remote Australia took decisive steps to decentralize from government settlements and missions to live and make a living on their ancestral lands at places that have become known as homelands. Over time, this migration garnered some state support and saw the emergence of new facilitating institutions. But in the last decade homeland living has been discursively demeaned
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Waging Paperfare: Subverting the Damage of Extractive Capitalism in Kakadu Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-10-25 Tess Lea, Kirsty Howey, Justin O'Brien
Drawing on campaigns waged and administrative burdens managed by the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC) in Kakadu National Park to manage the effects of existing uranium mining and further proposed mining, this article draws attention to some of the techniques and coalitions that GAC has created to manage its would‐be managers. It uses the case of monitoring the operations and particularly the
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Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities: Dispersal, Damage, and Resurgence: Introduction Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-10-21 Melinda Hinkson, Eve Vincent
The new millennium has seen the landscape of Australian Indigenous politics and policy rapidly transformed. This overview essay explores these transformations, highlighting the rise of incorporation and intervention as preferred modes of governance in this period. The essay argues for a need for anthropological attention to grapple with settler colonial legacies as well as higher level processes at
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In and Out of Place: Ethnography as ‘Journeying With’ Between Central and South Australia Oceania (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2018-10-18 Melinda Hinkson
This paper explores the case of an Aboriginal woman from Central Australia who has in recent years experienced a radical shift in her life circumstances. It pursues a writerly approach that makes the variety of forces and relationships legible that she now navigates, including that of the anthropologist‐friend. ‘Journeying with’ is proposed as an ethnographic method as well as an ethical stance well
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