Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner.
Once "unmistakably remote even by Papua New Guinea standards" (Weiner 2002:33), Jimmy described how Chevron Niugini's discovery of oil west of Lake Kutubu in 1989 had occasioned a significant change for the Foi and their southwest neighbours, the Fasu: 'everything suddenly became defined in terms of...
| Publicado en: | Oceania Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 2 - 26 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=149529654&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 149529654 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00298077 OCA jtl: Oceania issn: 00298077 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2021 vid: 91 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 149529654 10.1002/ocea.5296 ppf: 2 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 157KB tig: atl: Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner. aug: au: Biersack, Aletta Goldman, Laurence Glaskin, Katie Young, Michael W. Strathern, Marilyn Ingold, Tim Leach, James Crook, Tony Rumsey, Alan Merlan, Francesca Gilberthorpe, Emma affil: University of Oregon The University of Queensland The University of Western Australia The Australian National University University of Cambridge University of Aberdeen Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, EHESS ‐ CREDO (UMR 7308) University of St Andrews University of East Anglia su: Anthropologists Anthropology Self Indigenous Australians sug: subj: Anthropologists Anthropology Self Indigenous Australians ab: Once "unmistakably remote even by Papua New Guinea standards" (Weiner 2002:33), Jimmy described how Chevron Niugini's discovery of oil west of Lake Kutubu in 1989 had occasioned a significant change for the Foi and their southwest neighbours, the Fasu: 'everything suddenly became defined in terms of whether a local clan was or was not a "landowner" within the petroleum development license area (PDL-2)' ( I ibid i .:34). This love of language was Jimmy's intellectual passion too, developing an "anthropology of language" (in preference to "linguistic anthropology" [Weiner 1995:33]), beginning with highly original ethnographic expositions of Foi poetry in I The Empty Place i (1991; see also Weiner and Niles 2015). Jimmy's avowed objective in this I oeuvre i was to build "social literacy" in his readership and in a manner that reflected the primacy of anthropology as a clarifying lens (see Hitchcock and Weiner 2014; Weiner 2000, 2005a, 2005b, 2006, 2008, 2011; Weiner and Goldman 2009). Weiner's emotional engagement with the Foi is apparent in his description of their sung poetry and the paths and places (Weiner 1991), flows and deliberate interruptions (Weiner 1988:9), that their myth and sung poetry reflect. A CONJUNCTURAL FIELD In a 2002 paper, Jimmy discussed how his position in relation to his long-term Papua New Guinea fieldwork had begun to change, noting that 'external changes in the world of one's host configures one's perceptions and forces one into these different subject and analytic positions' (Weiner 2002:33). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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