{"title":"Notions of (In)Dependence at a Papua New Guinean University","authors":"I. Syndicus","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5312","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.5312","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46142429","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":"Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara. By IanWhite. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 2020. Pp: xix + 108. Price: $39.95","authors":"Craig M. Elliott","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5301","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.5301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42598181","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":"God is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific. By MattTomlinson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2020. Pp. xii + 161. Price: US$28","authors":"G. Trompf","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5302","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.5302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45514634","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":"Review Essay on Illustrated Handbook of Yolŋu Sign Language of North East Arnhem Land by BentleyJames, A.C.D.Adone, and E.L.Mypliama (eds). (Australian Book Connection. 2020)","authors":"A. Kendon","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5304","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.5304","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47749216","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}
In this article, I look at the ways in which a number of forms of providing for a livelihood have increased in importance in the region in this period and explore the ways in which they have created the possibility for new ascriptions of dependence and independence. I explore these issue with particular reference to Tolai people of Papua New Guinea ’ s East New Britain province, where the wealth of ethnographic and archival material going back many decades provides the possibility for a particularly rich and deep historical perspective. Wage labour has increased in importance for many commu-nities in the past few decades. Similarly, resource extraction and cash-cropping have also expanded in scale and importance in many parts of the region in recent decades. I argue that shifting evaluations of dependence come in and out of vision in relationship to these trends and these shifting evaluations are themselves central components of the construction of new hierarchies and relations of dependence.
{"title":"Wars of Dependence: Contested Histories Among Tolai People of Papua New Guinea","authors":"Keir Martin","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5307","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I look at the ways in which a number of forms of providing for a livelihood have increased in importance in the region in this period and explore the ways in which they have created the possibility for new ascriptions of dependence and independence. I explore these issue with particular reference to Tolai people of Papua New Guinea ’ s East New Britain province, where the wealth of ethnographic and archival material going back many decades provides the possibility for a particularly rich and deep historical perspective. Wage labour has increased in importance for many commu-nities in the past few decades. Similarly, resource extraction and cash-cropping have also expanded in scale and importance in many parts of the region in recent decades. I argue that shifting evaluations of dependence come in and out of vision in relationship to these trends and these shifting evaluations are themselves central components of the construction of new hierarchies and relations of dependence.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ocea.5307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46412378","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}
Building on Ferguson ’ s account of ‘ declarations of dependence ’ and prior Melanesianist work on ‘ humiliation ’ , I examine how enthusiasm for state-formation among Korowai of Papua has been shaped by their understandings of self-lowering as a politically complex way of in fl uencing kin and equalizing relations. I begin with media fi restorms in Australia and urban Papua about the need to save two vulnerable boys. Korowai understandings of these episodes, unknown to faraway media publics, illustrate their idea that self-lowering toward a hoped favorable benefactor is a desirable way of exercising a degree of relational control in a wider situation of being dominated. Building on the Australia-linked Wawa affair, I look further at why sending boys to school in towns is a main strategy by which Korowai try to ameliorate their felt inferiority to city people. Transactions between schoolboys and senior relatives are politically complex, in ways that suggest the schooling strategy is an application of old egalitarian kinship techniques to new geopolitical inequalities. Finally, I look at Korowai responses to the new environment of large money fl ows into the countryside under government policies of redistricting and community-driven development. Strong Korowai interest in benefactor relations with ‘ Regency ’ leaders, and the new embrace of divisions between ‘ heads ’ and ‘ community ’ within villages, also exemplify a strategy of seeking out a more livable relation of inequality to ease a less livable one.
{"title":"Self‐Lowering as Power and Trap: Wawa, ‘White’, and Peripheral Embrace of State Formation in Indonesian Papua","authors":"R. Stasch","doi":"10.1002/ocea.5310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ocea.5310","url":null,"abstract":"Building on Ferguson ’ s account of ‘ declarations of dependence ’ and prior Melanesianist work on ‘ humiliation ’ , I examine how enthusiasm for state-formation among Korowai of Papua has been shaped by their understandings of self-lowering as a politically complex way of in fl uencing kin and equalizing relations. I begin with media fi restorms in Australia and urban Papua about the need to save two vulnerable boys. Korowai understandings of these episodes, unknown to faraway media publics, illustrate their idea that self-lowering toward a hoped favorable benefactor is a desirable way of exercising a degree of relational control in a wider situation of being dominated. Building on the Australia-linked Wawa affair, I look further at why sending boys to school in towns is a main strategy by which Korowai try to ameliorate their felt inferiority to city people. Transactions between schoolboys and senior relatives are politically complex, in ways that suggest the schooling strategy is an application of old egalitarian kinship techniques to new geopolitical inequalities. Finally, I look at Korowai responses to the new environment of large money fl ows into the countryside under government policies of redistricting and community-driven development. Strong Korowai interest in benefactor relations with ‘ Regency ’ leaders, and the new embrace of divisions between ‘ heads ’ and ‘ community ’ within villages, also exemplify a strategy of seeking out a more livable relation of inequality to ease a less livable one.","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ocea.5310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49196949","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}
ESRC Studentship Max Planck-Cambridge Centre for the Study of Ethics, Economy, and Social Change
马克斯·普朗克-剑桥伦理、经济和社会变革研究中心
{"title":"Declarations of ‘Self‐Reliance’: Alternative Visions of Dependency, Citizenship and Development in Vanuatu","authors":"Rachel E Smith","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5309","url":null,"abstract":"ESRC Studentship\u0000Max Planck-Cambridge Centre for the Study of Ethics, Economy, and Social Change","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47775602","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":"What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community, By CameoDalley.New York: Berghahn Books. 2020, Pp. 252. Price:\u0000 US\u0000 $120","authors":"T. Rowse","doi":"10.1002/OCEA.5293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/OCEA.5293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46005,"journal":{"name":"Oceania","volume":"91 1","pages":"134-135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/OCEA.5293","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42218018","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}