{"title":"A Research Note on Laterality and Lineality in Austronesian Relationship Terminologies","authors":"J. Fox","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44963568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Endemic corruption and fervent Christianity dominate Papua New Guinea (PNG) public discourse. We draw on ethnographic material—including the emplacement of a King James V Bible in Parliament—to contextualise corruption discourse and Christian measures against corruption within evolving Papua New Guinean ideas about witnessing. Both corruption discourse and Christianity invoke a specific kind of observer: a disembodied, reliable witness capable of discerning people’s intentions. Established ethnographic and linguistic data from PNG meanwhile document witnesses as imagined to be embodied, interested, lacking a privileged relationship to truth, and thus susceptible to coercion. Recasting the PNG corruption issue in terms of witnessing foregrounds a perceived cultural conflict between inclusion and duty; it also reveals how and why the Christian God was invoked—using debt and obligation rhetoric—to end corruption at the national scale.
{"title":"It is Christ or Corruption in Papua New Guinea: Bring in the Witness!","authors":"A. J. Pickles, Priscila Costa","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5315","url":null,"abstract":"Endemic corruption and fervent Christianity dominate Papua New Guinea (PNG) public discourse. We draw on ethnographic material—including the emplacement of a King James V Bible in Parliament—to contextualise corruption discourse and Christian measures against corruption within evolving Papua New Guinean ideas about witnessing. Both corruption discourse and Christianity invoke a specific kind of observer: a disembodied, reliable witness capable of discerning people’s intentions. Established ethnographic and linguistic data from PNG meanwhile document witnesses as imagined to be embodied, interested, lacking a privileged relationship to truth, and thus susceptible to coercion. Recasting the PNG corruption issue in terms of witnessing foregrounds a perceived cultural conflict between inclusion and duty; it also reveals how and why the Christian God was invoked—using debt and obligation rhetoric—to end corruption at the national scale.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45756530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Introduced to the UN by the Prime Minister of Fiji, the Paci fi c speech genre of talanoa has become a key frame for international discussion of climate change policy. Traditionally associated with kava-drinking ceremonies, talanoa includes practices that temporarily mitigate differences in hierarchy and rank, which help to facilitate the formation of consensus, a process sometimes referred to as ‘ The Paci fi c Way ’ . This capacity has also motivated its application to a wide range of social interactions and speech events, scaling up from local contexts and national debates to international arenas. This includes talanoa ’ s contribution to the facilitation of the Paris Climate Agreement by promoting cooperation and the exchange of ideas. The Talanoa Dialogue differs from other speech genres at the UN, including the process of reconciliation through which resolutions and declarations are formulated. Fiji used its leadership role at international climate change meetings to counter representations of Paci fi c Islanders as passive victims of climate change, including the threat from rising sea levels. The introduction of talanoa to these meetings can be understood as an ideological project of encompassment in which a regional speech genre became an international framework for addressing one of the most consequential challenges of our times, global climate change.
{"title":"Talanoa Dialogue at\u0000 UN\u0000 Climate Change Meetings: The Extraordinary Encompassment of a\u0000 Scale‐Climbing\u0000 Pacific Speech Genre","authors":"S. Kirsch","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5314","url":null,"abstract":"Introduced to the UN by the Prime Minister of Fiji, the Paci fi c speech genre of talanoa has become a key frame for international discussion of climate change policy. Traditionally associated with kava-drinking ceremonies, talanoa includes practices that temporarily mitigate differences in hierarchy and rank, which help to facilitate the formation of consensus, a process sometimes referred to as ‘ The Paci fi c Way ’ . This capacity has also motivated its application to a wide range of social interactions and speech events, scaling up from local contexts and national debates to international arenas. This includes talanoa ’ s contribution to the facilitation of the Paris Climate Agreement by promoting cooperation and the exchange of ideas. The Talanoa Dialogue differs from other speech genres at the UN, including the process of reconciliation through which resolutions and declarations are formulated. Fiji used its leadership role at international climate change meetings to counter representations of Paci fi c Islanders as passive victims of climate change, including the threat from rising sea levels. The introduction of talanoa to these meetings can be understood as an ideological project of encompassment in which a regional speech genre became an international framework for addressing one of the most consequential challenges of our times, global climate change.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51034949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention. By TessLea. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2020. Pp: xi + 207. Price:\u0000 US\u0000 $25","authors":"Morgan Harrington","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5303","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41400011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Cutting the Colonial Cord’? Tensions of Value and the Relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand","authors":"Ingjerd Hoëm","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42429522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdependent Kin in Māori Marine Environments","authors":"Fiona McCormack","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41507525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu","authors":"T. Bratrud","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42826890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asmat social worlds are permeated with multiple forms of dependency. In this paper, I ask how different modalities of dependency inter-relate within the space and time of Asmat life, and how this is being reshaped by Asmat ’ s increasing incorporation within broader structural orders during a period of national decentralisation. First, I describe how relations of dependency shape everyday life, through a discussion of the time and space of quotidian food distribution and concomitant claim-making. Then, I outline how forms of inter-clan interdependency innovate on the above pattern during ritual feasting, which generates remarkable social co-presence through ritualised interdependent work. Finally, I explore how feasting interdependence, and its organisation in space and time, is being warped by ‘ The Allocation of Village Funds ’ ( ‘ Alokasi Dana Desa ’ ), a decentralised government grant. I do so via a case study of a ritual feast house construction project, in which Asmat villagers attempted to reckon with new forms of dependency typi fi ed, in indigenous discourse, by the distinction between ‘ sago ’ and ‘ rice ’ as local versus introduced staple foods associated with contrasting regimes of action. At stake here, in the collision between indigenous and newly emergent modes of dependency, is the viability of socially valuable modes of ritual life, which, in an age of decentralisation, are becoming shaped by and reliant on new types of forces outside of the community ’ s own labour and control.
阿斯马特的社会世界充斥着多种形式的依赖。在这篇论文中，我想知道不同的依赖模式在阿斯马特生活的空间和时间内是如何相互关联的，以及在国家权力下放时期，阿斯马特越来越多地融入更广泛的结构秩序，这是如何重塑的。首先，我通过讨论日常食物分配的时间和空间以及随之而来的索赔，描述了依赖关系如何塑造日常生活。然后，我概述了家族间相互依存的形式是如何在仪式盛宴期间对上述模式进行创新的，通过仪式化的相互依存工作产生了显著的社会共同存在。最后，我探讨了“乡村基金分配”（Alokasi Dana Desa），一种分散的政府拨款，是如何扭曲相互依存及其在空间和时间上的组织的。我通过一个仪式宴会厅建设项目的案例研究做到了这一点，在该项目中，阿斯马特村民试图考虑新形式的依赖，在土著话语中，“西米”和“大米”是当地主食，而“大米”则是引入的主食，与截然不同的行动制度相关。在这里，在土著和新出现的依赖模式之间的冲突中，关键是具有社会价值的仪式生活模式的可行性，在权力下放的时代，这种生活模式正被社区自身劳动和控制之外的新型力量所塑造并依赖。
{"title":"Sago Versus Rice and the Reorganisation of Ritual Spacetime: Competing Modes of Dependency in an Age of Decentralisation in Asmat, Indonesian Papua","authors":"Tom Powell Davies","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5306","url":null,"abstract":"Asmat social worlds are permeated with multiple forms of dependency. In this paper, I ask how different modalities of dependency inter-relate within the space and time of Asmat life, and how this is being reshaped by Asmat ’ s increasing incorporation within broader structural orders during a period of national decentralisation. First, I describe how relations of dependency shape everyday life, through a discussion of the time and space of quotidian food distribution and concomitant claim-making. Then, I outline how forms of inter-clan interdependency innovate on the above pattern during ritual feasting, which generates remarkable social co-presence through ritualised interdependent work. Finally, I explore how feasting interdependence, and its organisation in space and time, is being warped by ‘ The Allocation of Village Funds ’ ( ‘ Alokasi Dana Desa ’ ), a decentralised government grant. I do so via a case study of a ritual feast house construction project, in which Asmat villagers attempted to reckon with new forms of dependency typi fi ed, in indigenous discourse, by the distinction between ‘ sago ’ and ‘ rice ’ as local versus introduced staple foods associated with contrasting regimes of action. At stake here, in the collision between indigenous and newly emergent modes of dependency, is the viability of socially valuable modes of ritual life, which, in an age of decentralisation, are becoming shaped by and reliant on new types of forces outside of the community ’ s own labour and control.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49653235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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