Raymond Firth's Tikopia corpus is a treasure for all time. 'A treasure for all time' was Thucydid... more Raymond Firth's Tikopia corpus is a treasure for all time. 'A treasure for all time' was Thucydides's modest assessment of his own History of the Peloponnesian War, no doubt intended as an invidious contrast to Herodotus, since it followed from the observation that he was not one to pander to a credulous public by relating fanciful tales of the marvellous. Indeed, Thucydides's invocations of a universal, interestdriven rationality based on supposed natural desires of power and gainof the kind that led to the spectacularly irrational debacle of the Sicilian campaign-have made him the darling of contemporary IR realists. All the same, the ethnographically-informed history of Herodotus, rich in its accounts of local legends and unusual customs, turned out to be the real intellectual gold. And in the same way as Herodotus's sustained excursus on the marvellous of the peoples involved in the Greco-Persian 1 Marshall Sahlins originally delivered this text as the Raymond Firth Lecture in Verona, at the 2008 European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) conference. We subsequently translated it into Italian for publication in La Ricerca Folklorica 63 (2011). In agreement with the author and the editors of HAU, the paper was first published in English in volume 2(2) 2012 of the journal, with the understanding that it would also be included in this volume.
10 Among the many texts addressing the intersections between gender, status, race and clothing in... more 10 Among the many texts addressing the intersections between gender, status, race and clothing in colonial times, see Margaret Jolly's 'A saturated history of Christianity and cloth in Oceania' (2014). 11 See also the photographs in Franceinfo, la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/2013/07/29/ jean-marc-ayrault-visite-du-centre-culturel-tjibaou-51349.html (accessed 1 March 2017). 12 Clifford's essay 'Spatial Practices' (1997b) was also published in the volume edited by Gupta and Ferguson (1997b).
Author(s): Paini, Anna Maria | Abstract: Analyzing the relevant issues concerning contemporary Al... more Author(s): Paini, Anna Maria | Abstract: Analyzing the relevant issues concerning contemporary Alpine spaces, Vinigo, Italy could be considered one of such intermediate spaces. Vinigo is a mountain village with an elevation of 1,025 m situated in the Belluno province of the Veneto Region, Italy. It is one of the oldest settlements in the Ladin area in the Dolomites, which have been included in the Unesco World Heritage List in 2009. Local Cultural Models include ‘Causal Model of Nature 2’ although it is difficult to locate the place that animals have in this causal model. Not only today families no longer have active stables but our interlocutors, when asked about the activities connected to taking the animals to the higher fields in the past, focused more around moments of sociality with the elderly or with peers or around the heavy work required by collecting hay (to feed the animals once they were taken back in the village) than about narratives centered on the animals.
Le croisement d’experiences entre deux chercheurs sur leur terrain de recherche, l’un dans le nor... more Le croisement d’experiences entre deux chercheurs sur leur terrain de recherche, l’un dans le nord de la Grande Terre (Wete), l’autre a Lifou (Drueulu), permet de mieux comprendre comment, dans ce moment historique prereferendaire, hommes et femmes kanak redefinissent les contours de leur passe. Chacun presente la reflexion qui resulte de ce dialogue en mettant en evidence le desir croissant, chez leurs interlocuteurs, de s’engager personnellement dans des demarches de mise en valeur des elements culturels fondamentaux de leurs societes face aux enjeux de l’avenir. Le moment historique du referendum de 2018 ne mobilise pas seulement des enjeux politiques, il implique aussi une vision civilisationnelle, c’est-a-dire un pari sur un projet de societe durable, ancree sur des elements culturels kanak.
This essay addresses the issues of cultural heritage and the processes of heritage-making through... more This essay addresses the issues of cultural heritage and the processes of heritage-making through the analysis of a specific case: the concept of "objets ambassadeurs" proposed and supported by the Kanak of New Caledonia. From a discussion of the issues on repatriation considered within the wider context of indigenous peoples' rights, we highlight the creative and original aspects of the vision of the"ambassador objects" proposal. After tracing the genesis of this idea by placing it within the existing conflict dynamics affecting New Caledonian society, we give an account of a particular outcome in terms of a museum collaboration: an exhibition on Kanak Bamboos organized by museums in Geneva (MEG) and Noumea (MNC). Such shared paths enhance (not without conflicts / tensions) the connections and sharing of the past and of the present, rather than irreducible and exclusive cultural belonging
Page 1. 'The Kite is Tied to You5: Custom, Christianity, and Organization among Kana... more Page 1. 'The Kite is Tied to You5: Custom, Christianity, and Organization among Kanak Women of Drueulu, Lifou, New Caledonia ... In the field, I tried neither to romanticize Kanak women nor see them as victims and to treat each interlocutor 'as a complex, historical sub-...
Si la memoire de la traite du travail dans les iles du Pacifique-sud a l'epoque coloniale jou... more Si la memoire de la traite du travail dans les iles du Pacifique-sud a l'epoque coloniale joue un role important pour certains peuples et certaines nations de la region, il semble que cela ne soit pas le cas pour les Kanak de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Evoquant des echanges qu'elle a pu avoir avec de jeunes Kanak a l'occasion de ses recherches de terrain, l'A. propose quelques reflexions sur la place de cette histoire dans la memoire kanak et sur la possibilite d'une (re)appropriation de cette memoire par les jeunes Kanak loyaltiens ou descendants des Loyaltiens en Australie. L'exposition photographique Embarquement pour le Queensland : Des Loyaltiens en terre australienne, qui evoque les migrations de travail des iles Loyaute vers le Queensland, peut peut-etre contribuer a la reflexion sur ce passe et la maniere dont il est interprete
Cet article a pour objet une analyse sur la complexite des representations politiques du genre da... more Cet article a pour objet une analyse sur la complexite des representations politiques du genre dans l'elaboration d'une recherche ethnographique. Dans un premier temps, l'A. expose une synthese du debat actuel sur l'alterite et la subjectivite dans le discours ethnologique, notamment a travers une analyse de la differenciation sexuelle dans l'anthropologie italienne et de la theorie de la pratique socio-symbolique du feminisme. Dans une deuxieme partie, l'A. precise sa position personnelle quant a l'anthropologie feministe puis l'illustre a travers l'exposition de son experience ethnographique en Nouvelle Caledonie. Sa conclusion porte sur les malentendus entre l'anthropologie et le feminisme dans la conception et les representations de l'alterite.
Nouvelle-Calédonie, 150 ans après la prise de possession Rhabiller les symboles : les femmes kana... more Nouvelle-Calédonie, 150 ans après la prise de possession Rhabiller les symboles : les femmes kanak et larobe mission à Lifou (Nouvelle-Calédonie
Raymond Firth's Tikopia corpus is a treasure for all time. 'A treasure for all time' was Thucydid... more Raymond Firth's Tikopia corpus is a treasure for all time. 'A treasure for all time' was Thucydides's modest assessment of his own History of the Peloponnesian War, no doubt intended as an invidious contrast to Herodotus, since it followed from the observation that he was not one to pander to a credulous public by relating fanciful tales of the marvellous. Indeed, Thucydides's invocations of a universal, interestdriven rationality based on supposed natural desires of power and gainof the kind that led to the spectacularly irrational debacle of the Sicilian campaign-have made him the darling of contemporary IR realists. All the same, the ethnographically-informed history of Herodotus, rich in its accounts of local legends and unusual customs, turned out to be the real intellectual gold. And in the same way as Herodotus's sustained excursus on the marvellous of the peoples involved in the Greco-Persian 1 Marshall Sahlins originally delivered this text as the Raymond Firth Lecture in Verona, at the 2008 European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) conference. We subsequently translated it into Italian for publication in La Ricerca Folklorica 63 (2011). In agreement with the author and the editors of HAU, the paper was first published in English in volume 2(2) 2012 of the journal, with the understanding that it would also be included in this volume.
10 Among the many texts addressing the intersections between gender, status, race and clothing in... more 10 Among the many texts addressing the intersections between gender, status, race and clothing in colonial times, see Margaret Jolly's 'A saturated history of Christianity and cloth in Oceania' (2014). 11 See also the photographs in Franceinfo, la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/nouvellecaledonie/2013/07/29/ jean-marc-ayrault-visite-du-centre-culturel-tjibaou-51349.html (accessed 1 March 2017). 12 Clifford's essay 'Spatial Practices' (1997b) was also published in the volume edited by Gupta and Ferguson (1997b).
Author(s): Paini, Anna Maria | Abstract: Analyzing the relevant issues concerning contemporary Al... more Author(s): Paini, Anna Maria | Abstract: Analyzing the relevant issues concerning contemporary Alpine spaces, Vinigo, Italy could be considered one of such intermediate spaces. Vinigo is a mountain village with an elevation of 1,025 m situated in the Belluno province of the Veneto Region, Italy. It is one of the oldest settlements in the Ladin area in the Dolomites, which have been included in the Unesco World Heritage List in 2009. Local Cultural Models include ‘Causal Model of Nature 2’ although it is difficult to locate the place that animals have in this causal model. Not only today families no longer have active stables but our interlocutors, when asked about the activities connected to taking the animals to the higher fields in the past, focused more around moments of sociality with the elderly or with peers or around the heavy work required by collecting hay (to feed the animals once they were taken back in the village) than about narratives centered on the animals.
Le croisement d’experiences entre deux chercheurs sur leur terrain de recherche, l’un dans le nor... more Le croisement d’experiences entre deux chercheurs sur leur terrain de recherche, l’un dans le nord de la Grande Terre (Wete), l’autre a Lifou (Drueulu), permet de mieux comprendre comment, dans ce moment historique prereferendaire, hommes et femmes kanak redefinissent les contours de leur passe. Chacun presente la reflexion qui resulte de ce dialogue en mettant en evidence le desir croissant, chez leurs interlocuteurs, de s’engager personnellement dans des demarches de mise en valeur des elements culturels fondamentaux de leurs societes face aux enjeux de l’avenir. Le moment historique du referendum de 2018 ne mobilise pas seulement des enjeux politiques, il implique aussi une vision civilisationnelle, c’est-a-dire un pari sur un projet de societe durable, ancree sur des elements culturels kanak.
This essay addresses the issues of cultural heritage and the processes of heritage-making through... more This essay addresses the issues of cultural heritage and the processes of heritage-making through the analysis of a specific case: the concept of "objets ambassadeurs" proposed and supported by the Kanak of New Caledonia. From a discussion of the issues on repatriation considered within the wider context of indigenous peoples' rights, we highlight the creative and original aspects of the vision of the"ambassador objects" proposal. After tracing the genesis of this idea by placing it within the existing conflict dynamics affecting New Caledonian society, we give an account of a particular outcome in terms of a museum collaboration: an exhibition on Kanak Bamboos organized by museums in Geneva (MEG) and Noumea (MNC). Such shared paths enhance (not without conflicts / tensions) the connections and sharing of the past and of the present, rather than irreducible and exclusive cultural belonging
Page 1. 'The Kite is Tied to You5: Custom, Christianity, and Organization among Kana... more Page 1. 'The Kite is Tied to You5: Custom, Christianity, and Organization among Kanak Women of Drueulu, Lifou, New Caledonia ... In the field, I tried neither to romanticize Kanak women nor see them as victims and to treat each interlocutor 'as a complex, historical sub-...
Si la memoire de la traite du travail dans les iles du Pacifique-sud a l'epoque coloniale jou... more Si la memoire de la traite du travail dans les iles du Pacifique-sud a l'epoque coloniale joue un role important pour certains peuples et certaines nations de la region, il semble que cela ne soit pas le cas pour les Kanak de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Evoquant des echanges qu'elle a pu avoir avec de jeunes Kanak a l'occasion de ses recherches de terrain, l'A. propose quelques reflexions sur la place de cette histoire dans la memoire kanak et sur la possibilite d'une (re)appropriation de cette memoire par les jeunes Kanak loyaltiens ou descendants des Loyaltiens en Australie. L'exposition photographique Embarquement pour le Queensland : Des Loyaltiens en terre australienne, qui evoque les migrations de travail des iles Loyaute vers le Queensland, peut peut-etre contribuer a la reflexion sur ce passe et la maniere dont il est interprete
Cet article a pour objet une analyse sur la complexite des representations politiques du genre da... more Cet article a pour objet une analyse sur la complexite des representations politiques du genre dans l'elaboration d'une recherche ethnographique. Dans un premier temps, l'A. expose une synthese du debat actuel sur l'alterite et la subjectivite dans le discours ethnologique, notamment a travers une analyse de la differenciation sexuelle dans l'anthropologie italienne et de la theorie de la pratique socio-symbolique du feminisme. Dans une deuxieme partie, l'A. precise sa position personnelle quant a l'anthropologie feministe puis l'illustre a travers l'exposition de son experience ethnographique en Nouvelle Caledonie. Sa conclusion porte sur les malentendus entre l'anthropologie et le feminisme dans la conception et les representations de l'alterite.
Nouvelle-Calédonie, 150 ans après la prise de possession Rhabiller les symboles : les femmes kana... more Nouvelle-Calédonie, 150 ans après la prise de possession Rhabiller les symboles : les femmes kanak et larobe mission à Lifou (Nouvelle-Calédonie
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