Landscapes of Relations and Belonging

Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84545-775-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. This innovative study demonstrates how Wogeo worldviews and social organization can be described in relation to terms of movements, flows and placements in the landscape while, in turn, the landscape is constituted and made meaningful through people’s activities and buildings. The author not only addresses some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology concerning place, gender, kinship, knowledge and power but also fills an important gap in Melanesian ethnography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Orthography

Introduction

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Wogeo and Ian Hogbin

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Wogeo Island

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The People of Dab

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The Chapters

PART I: WOGEO ISLAND - PLACE AND PEOPLE

Prelude

Chapter 1: Life in Wogeo

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Dab Village

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Main Kinship Categories

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Daily Rhythms

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Food, Sharing and Exchange

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Mission, Colonial Powers and Change

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Language

Chapter 2: The Legacy of Ian Hogbin and the Wogeo Culture Heroes

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The Origins of Kastom

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Onka and Mafofo

PART II: BODIES, TABOOS AND SOCIALITY

Prelude

Chapter 3: Differentiation and Connectedness: Blood, Flutes and Gender

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Polluted Blood

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First Menstruation

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Childbirth

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Male Cleansing and the Male Cult

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Gendered Differentiation

Chapter 4: Desired and Undesired Connections

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Pollution and Diseases of the Place

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Germs, Smell and Language

Chapter 5: Death and Disconnections

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Manvara

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The Death of Ulbaia

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Decomposing the Composite Person

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The Last Work for Ulbaia

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Cutting the Skin

PART III: LANDSCAPE, KNOWLEDGE AND LEADERSHIP

Prelude

Chapter 6: Sides, Pathways and Directions

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Chasing the Stars

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The Island as a Canoe

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Landscape of Paths and Places

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Village Landscapes

Chapter 7: Knowledge and Leadership

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Forms of Leadership

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Knowledge and Leadership

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‘Everything goes in fours’

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Koakoale and Matrilineages

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Koakoale and Place

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Koakoale and Exchange

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Changing Expressions of Knowledge

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Knowledge, Truth and the Vatican Council

PART IV: POLITICS OF BELONGING

Prelude

Chapter 8: Kinship, Place and Belonging

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‘The dead weight of old kinship categories’

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The ‘problem’ of Groups

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Shared Places

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Shared Blood

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Houses and Matrilineages

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Adoption

Chapter 9: Dab Village – its Land, Houses and People

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The Construction of Singero

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Singero’s Traditional Design

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Inheritance of Rights

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Flexibility and Perceived Permanence in the Dab Landscape

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Land Rights, Consensus and Corrugated Iron

Conclusion

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Experience and Representation

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Relations in the Landscape

Postlude

References

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson, Astrid
Astrid Anderson has a doctoral degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and is presently a senior academic librarian at the University of Oslo Library.