Embodying Modernity and Post-Modernity

by Bamford, Sandra C.

• ISBN13: 9780890894767
• ISBN10: 0890894760
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xxi
Chapter 1 Bodies in Transition: An Introduction to Emerging Forms of Praxis in the Pacific, Sandra Bamford	3	(14)
References	12	(5)
Chapter 2 Producing Omie Locality, Marta A. Rohatynskyj	17	(22)
Abstract	17	(2)
An Expanded Geography	19	(2)
Body and Place	21	(4)
Village Consolidation and Traditional Embodiment	25	(5)
Localized and Delocalized Bodies	30	(3)
The Delocalized Body and the Strategy of Modernity	33	(1)
References	34	(5)
Chapter 3 "Our Skins are Weak": Ipili Modernity and the Demise of Discipline, Jerry Jacka	39	(30)
Abstract	39	(1)
Introduction	39	(2)
The Ethnographic Background	41	(3)
The Notion of Biodegradability in Ipili Cosmology	44	(1)
Traditional Practices of Disciplining Bodies	45	(4)
The Biodegradation of Land and Its Renewal	49	(5)
Cyclical Society, Cyclical Earth	54	(1)
Contemporary Concerns over the Demise of Disciplinary Practices	55	(6)
Conclusions	61	(1)
Acknowledgments	62	(1)
References	63	(6)
Chapter 4 Machine-Thinking: Changing Social and Bodily Divisions Around the Ok Tedi Mining Project, Dr. Tony Crook	69	(36)
Abstract	69	(1)
Machine-Thinking 1	70	(3)
Iteration 1. Reflexivity. Two Observations on Anthropology's Own 'Machine-Thinking'	73	(3)
Iteration 2. Alternatives. Two Observations from Thinkers on Machines	76	(1)
Iteration 3. Ok Tedi. 'A Community and Not Only a Mining Operation as Many People Think'	77	(1)
Machine-Thinking 2	78	(5)
Iteration 4. Conception. Two Observations from Ankaiyakmin Men and Women	83	(1)
Iteration 5. Knowledge. Two Observations from Ankaiyakmin Perspectives	84	(3)
Iteration 6. Cultivation. Two Observations on Ankaiyakmin Cult and Horticulture	87	(1)
Machine-Thinking 3	88	(8)
Iteration 7. Two Concluding Observations on Machine-Thinking	96	(2)
Recapitulation	98	(2)
Acknowledgments	100	(1)
References	101	(4)
Chapter 5 "Dying Culture" and Decaying Bodies, Thomas Strong	105	(20)
Abstract	105	(8)
Bones and Stones	113	(7)
References	120	(5)
Chapter 6 Modalities of Modernity in Maisin Society, John Barker	125	(36)
Abstract	125	(2)
The Youth Fellowship Movement among the Maisin	127	(4)
Contrasting Images of the Body, Personhood and Morality	131	(6)
Three Perspectives on Modernity	137	(15)
Incremental Modernity	139	(4)
Conjunctures and Continuities	143	(4)
Modernity Pluralized	147	(5)
Conclusion	152	(2)
Acknowledgements	154	(1)
References	154	(7)
Chapter 7 Unholy Noses, Sandra Bamford	161	(24)
Abstract	161	(1)
Ethnographic Background	162	(6)
Kamea Initiation	165	(3)
Embodiments of Detachment	168	(5)
Christian Bodies, Pagan Practices: Negotiating 'Modern' Lives	173	(7)
Resistance, Accommodation and Contemporary Ambiguities	178	(2)
Acknowledgments	180	(1)
References	180	(5)
Chapter 8 The Thickness of Blood: Kwoma Definitions of "Us" and "You," Margaret Holmes Williamson	185	(26)
Abstract	185	(22)
References	207	(4)
Chapter 9 "Family Planning": The Politics of Reproduction in Central New Ireland, Karen Sykes	211	(28)
Abstract	211	(1)
International Family Planning Initiatives	211	(2)
Ethnographic Background	213	(6)
Women's Management of Procreation	219	(5)
Men's Management of Procreation	224	(2)
The Government's Work with the Health Service in the Mandak Region	226	(7)
Some Conclusions about State Interventions in Family Planning	233	(4)
References	237	(2)
Chapter 10 Self-Decoration in Hagen and Duna (Papua New Guinea): Display and Disjuncture, Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern	239	(18)
Abstract	239	(1)
Introduction	239	(1)
Hagen	240	(2)
Cultural Shows and Tourism	242	(3)
Duna	245	(5)
Modernity and After	250	(2)
References	252	(5)
Chapter 11 A Body of Postcards from Vanuatu, Lamont Lindstrom	257	(26)
Abstract	257	(1)
Postcards and Tourists	258	(2)
Poses	260	(3)
Bodies, Romantic and Picaresque	263	(4)
Body Parts	267	(12)
Painted Faces	268	(1)
Eyes	268	(1)
Breasts	269	(4)
Penises	273	(3)
Smiles	276	(3)
Postcard Mirrors	279	(2)
References	281	(2)
Afterword Embodied Historicities, Eric Hirsch	283	(9)
Dilemmas of Embodiment	283	(1)
Views Across Time	284	(2)
What Kind of Subject?	286	(2)
Events	288	(1)
Rupture	289	(2)
Between Myth and History: Embodied Historicities	291	(1)
References	292