Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and BelongingBerghahn Books |
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When Experts Disagree on | 37 |
Global Gazes of NorwegianAmerican Genealogies | 57 |
Biomigration and Landscape Imagery | 103 |
Epochs of Scalemaking in Papua | 121 |
Rearticulating Identity | 143 |
Globalisation | 163 |
Afterword | 185 |
Notes on Contributors | 199 |
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Pagina 94 - We live in a confusing world, a world of crisscrossed economies, intersecting systems of meaning, and fragmented identities. Suddenly, the comforting modern imagery of nation-states and national languages, of coherent communities and consistent subjectivities, of dominant centers and distant margins no longer seems adequate
Pagina 179 - In time you may discover all there is to discover - but your progress will only be progress away from mankind. The gulf between you and the people will become so great that one fine day you will cry out in jubilation over a new achievement - and be greeted by a cry of universal horror.
Pagina 37 - The image, the imagined, the imaginary — these are all terms that direct us to something critical and new in global cultural processes: the imagination as a social practice. No longer mere fantasy (opium for the masses whose real work is elsewhere), no longer simple escape (from a world defined principally by more concrete purposes and structures), no longer elite pastime (thus not relevant to the lives of ordinary people), and no longer mere contemplation...
Pagina 137 - Property, transactions and creations: new economic relations in the Pacific', funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (grant no. R000237838). I warmly thank all those in Visi who facilitated my initial research, and I am also very grateful to Alphonse Hega.
Pagina 108 - Wales is a perpetual flower garden, but there is not a single scene in it of which a painter could make a landscape, without greatly disguising the true character of the trees. They have no lateral boughs, and cast no masses of shade...
Pagina 93 - ... that their most important kin and friends are as likely to be living hundreds or thousands of miles away as immediately around them. More significantly, they are often able to maintain these spatially extended relationships as actively and effectively as the ties that link them to their neighbors. In this...
Pagina 7 - Moreover, what they exchange is not solely property and wealth, movable and immovable goods, and things economically useful. In particular, such exchanges are acts of politeness: banquets, rituals, military services, women, children, dances, festivals, and fairs, in which economic transaction is only one element, and in which the passing on of wealth is only one feature of a much more general and enduring contract.
Pagina 37 - ... pastime (thus not relevant to the lives of ordinary people), and no longer mere contemplation (irrelevant for new forms of desire and subjectivity), the imagination has become an organized field of social practices, a form of work (in the sense of both labor and culturally organized practice), and a form of negotiation between sites of agency (individuals) and globally defined fields of possibility.
Pagina 127 - Betel-chewing is apparently not indulged in by these people as extensively as it is done in Mekeo and on the coast; but they like it well enough, and for a month or so before a big feast, during which period they are under strict taboo restrictions as to food, they indulge in it largely. The betel used by them is not the cultivated form used in Mekeo and on the coast, but a wild-species, only about half the size of the other. The tidibe is as follows (this tidibe is either a transformation of an...
Pagina 93 - Indeed, through the continuous circulation of people, money, goods, and information, the various settlements have become so closely woven together that, in an important sense, they have come to constitute a single community spread across a variety of sites, something I refer to as a "transnational migrant circuit.