Epeli Hau’ofa: Stillehavsfortællinger

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Shinji Yamashita & J.S. Eades (eds.): Globalization in Southeast Asia. Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

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Den Jyske Historiker 100: Mellem civilisationshistorie og globalhistorie

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Sjælen kan også se(s). Om verdensoplevelse hos mekeo, Papua Ny Guinea

Det sete afhanger ikke kun af ojnene der ser, men ogsa af sociale nonner for, hvad der kan ses, og hvordan det sete skal forstas. Observationen er afhangig af kalibreringen af den observerende, for at bruge en lettere omskrivning af Bohrs kendte dictum, og derfor er der forskel pa de handlingsstrategier, det sete udloser. &nbsp

Reflecting on loss in Papua New Guinea

This article takes up the conundrum of conducting anthropological fieldwork with people who claim that they have 'lost their culture,' as is the case with Suau people in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea. But rather than claiming culture loss as a process of dispossession, Suau claim it as a consequence of their own attempts to engage with colonial interests. Suau appear to have responded to missionization and their close proximity to the colonial-era capital by jettisoning many of the practices characteristic of Massim societies, now identified as 'kastom.' The rejection of kastom in order to facilitate their relations with Europeans during colonialism, followed by the mourning for kastom after independence, both invite consideration of a kind of reflexivity that requires action based on the presumed perspective of another