Allen, B. 1990. The importance of being equal: the colonial and post-colonial experience in the Torricelli Foothills. Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea. N. Lutkehaus, C. Kaufmann, W. E. Mitchellet al. Durham, North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press: 185-196. (original) (raw)
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Chapter Six (cont.) 2. Warfare 3. The Social Contexts of Destructive Magic and Warfare PART II Contact with the Outside World Chapter Seven: Malay Contact 1. The First Contact with Outsiders 2. Intermarriage and Linguistic Evidence 3. The Puang's Attitude Towards Malays 4. Conclusion Chapter Eight: European Contact 1. Eruopean Explorations 2. German Administration and Plantations 3. Australian Administration and Plantations 4. Eruopean Missions 5. The Impact of European Contact 265 Chapter Nine: A Note on Cargo Cult and Elections PART III Kinship and Marriage, Belief and Thought Chapter Ten: Kinship a. Characteristics of the Clan b. Clans and Other Villages c. Clans and Clan-Clusters d. Conclusion: The Puang's Conception of Kinship
Society and Military Practice in Sepik and Highland New Guinea
2000
A large number of contacts were made with colleagues and personnel at archives and libraries in the US and abroad. For details, please see under MAJOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT. Activities and Findings Project Activities and Findings: NSF funding was granted to help pursue a research project entitled, 'Society and Military Practice in Sepik and Highland New Guinea.' This project aims to assemble and analyze textual and coded databases concerning indigenous warfare in two regions of contact-era New Guinea, the Sepik Basin and the Highlands. To begin with, NSF support was requested for full support of two aspects of this project: A).the collection of archival and other data, much of it unpublished, from collections around the world that were difficult or impossible to access from the University of Maine; B).the construction from these and other documents already in hand of large text-based databases on New-Guinea warfare and on topics related to a series of hypotheses about this warfare. One aim of the project was to get these databases into a shape that could then be shared with other researchers.
Early colonial transformation: The emergence of wedged dichotomies
Caste and Equality in India, 2021
Chapters 4 and 5 look at social transformations under colonialism. Colonial rule brought about major changes in two stages. Chapter 4 depicts early colonial transformation. During the early colonial encounter, the structure of the ‘sacrificer state and sacrificial community’ began to fragment. The intricate system of totality that connected the local system of entitlements, kingship and the Jagannātha cult was broken down and their depoliticised and ritualised forms were created. The villagers had to seek their ‘traditional’ identity in the limited sphere of ‘community rituals’ and ‘ritual kingship’. The introduction of private landownership some decades after colonisation led to the collapse of the system of entitlements, and the formation of the dominant caste–centred jajmani relationships based on unequal landownership. The introduction of land proprietorship also delinked everyday productive activity from traditional identity. The colonially constructed land tenure structure privileged the local elite of brāhmaṇas and karaṇas (scribes) and the dominant caste of khaṇḍāyatas (peasant-militia), thus creating a ‘unitary caste hierarchy’ where brahmanical ritual hierarchy overlapped with the economic landholding hierarchy. Early colonialism thus ‘traditionalised’ hierarchy and dominance in local society. The sacrificial idea of the cooperation of ontologically equal parts and duty as a devotional service to god came to be confined to the religio-ritual sphere and cut off from socio-economic relationships.
Understanding Colonial Anthropology: On the Ethnographic Situation Approach 1
Hespéris-Tamuda, 2020
I try to approach colonial anthropology as a social scientist thinking of the res ources and constraints of belonging to a community, in a formerly colonized country. The issue is not to oppose a 'true ethnography' to a 'deforming ethnography,' a 'true national history' to 'a false colonial history' or 'a true Orient' to 'a mythical Orient.' On the contrary, I aim to avoid treating colonial legacy as a sui generis object and analyze it with the same approach applicable to other postcolonial anthropological literature. I tried to understand the researchers by providing as much relevant information as possible about their social situations. Relevant information is inspired by the concept of ethnographic situation that includes cultural and ideological orientations, theoretical orientations, the social position of the researcher and the colonial context. The question is how those dimensions of the ethnographic situation affect the colonial anthropology.
From colonial past to post-colonial present
Emmelina Besamuca & Jaap Verheul (eds), Discovering the Dutch; On culture and society of the Netherlands, 2014
Once atnong Europe's majol colouial powers, the Netl.rerlancls toclay is a postcolonial nation with over a tnillion citizeus with colonial roots. All major colonies werc either losr ro Eulopean cornpetitors loug ago, or attained indepenclence in the twentieth centllty. Toda¡ only six tiny islands in the Caribbeân are part of the Kingclorll of rhc Netheliauclsnot because the Dutch is unwilling to let them go but because these Antilles do not want to palt with the me rlopolis.
The Journal of Pacific History, 2016
This paper will show that the colonial project in south Dutch New Guinea was a joint project in which evangelisation, education, 'civilisation' and 'pacification' were taken up by the Dutch Catholic mission in close collusion with the colonial government. This was also a project in which a few Dutch missionaries deployed many goeroes (teachers) from elsewhere in the Dutch East Indies. These goeroes had an important position assigned to them by the Catholic mission and colonial government in the development of the Papuans and the area. This colonial structure utilised by both Dutch colonial administrators and missionaries has been labelled in the literature as a system of 'dual colonialism'. Drawing on records held in missionary and colonial archives, the paper explores this dual colonial structure by analysing the roles of Catholic goeroes from the Kei and Tanimbar islands. This is done by taking Felix Driver's concept of local intermediaries as the point of departure. While this concept makes visible the key role of goeroes, it is not without its issues, which will also be explored.