Revista Internacional De Ciencias Sociales International Social Science Journal, 2003
En el presente documento se examina lo que el autor describe como la "mundializacion comprim... more En el presente documento se examina lo que el autor describe como la "mundializacion comprimida" en la region del sur del Pacifico, con un interes especial por las Islas Salomon. Sobre la base de un trabajo de campo etnografico de larga duracion en el "foco critico" de la laguna de Marovo, con respecto a la diversidad biologica, el autor aborda la complejidad de diversos encuentros local-mundial durante los anos noventa, en los que participaron aldeanos indigenas propietarios de recursos, empresas transnacionales de extraccion de madera y minerales e iniciativas ecologistas extranjeras de organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG). Se da prioridad a la situacion controvertida de los bosques hidrofilos situados en torno a la laguna de Marovo. Mientras que las empresas asiaticas extractivas deseaban una rapida explotacion de grandes reservas de madera, ONG occidentales (y otros organismos gubernamentales analogos) deseaban la conservacion de los bosques en aras de la biodiversidad mundial. Los aldeanos que poseen las tierras forestales con arreglo al derecho consuetudinario respaldado por el Estado siguen vias imprevisibles entre los tipos discrepantes de aspiraciones extranjeras (y mundiales), haciendo hincapie en su propia autonomia con respecto a las condiciones de la vida contemporanea de la aldea. Estos encuentros postcoloniales se caracterizan por la incertidumbre mutua y la falta de conocimiento de los programas morales y politicos de la "otra parte". Sin embargo, la falta de una comprension compartida esta lejos de inhibir una colaboracion efectiva, ya se trate de acuerdos a corto plazo para la extraccion de madera o de "proyectos de conservacion basados en la comunidad" iniciados por una ONG. En estos proyectos, definidos por medio de conceptos indigenas, las aspiraciones divergentes parecen converger aunque sea de manera inestable.
List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: The Ethnographic Experi... more List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: The Ethnographic Experiment in Island Melanesia Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg Chapter 1. Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation Christine Dureau Chapter 2. Across the New Georgia Group: A.M. Hocart's Fieldwork as Inter-Island Practice Edvard Hviding Chapter 3. The Genealogical Method: Vella Lavella Reconsidered Cato Berg Chapter 4. Rivers and the Study of Kinship in Ambrym: Mother Right and Father Right Revisited Knut M. Rio and Annelin Eriksen Chapter 5. House Upon Pacific Sand: W.H.R. Rivers and his 1908 Ethnographic 'Survey Work' Thorgeir S. Kolshus Chapter 6. Colonialism as Shell-Shock: W.H.R. Rivers's Explanations for Depopulation in Melanesia Tim Bayliss-Smith Chapter 7. A Vanishing People or a Vanishing Discourse? W.H.R. Rivers's 'Psychological Factor' and Depopulation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Judith A. Bennett Chapter 8. Objects and Photographs from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition Tim Thomas Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund Transcribed by Tim Bayliss-Smith Appendix II: Materials in archives from the 1908 fieldwork in Island Melanesia Cato Berg
... À ce moment-là, chapa est souvent remplacé par umoro (voir ci-dessous). • Keli pajara ... On ... more ... À ce moment-là, chapa est souvent remplacé par umoro (voir ci-dessous). • Keli pajara ... On peut observer de tels groupes à n'importe quel moment de l'année, mais ils sont plus nombreux enmars.9 • Le picot (Siganus punctatus et, éventuellement, S. vermiculatus - dudu) ...
The people of Chea village, centrally located in the great Marovo Lagoon of the western Solomon I... more The people of Chea village, centrally located in the great Marovo Lagoon of the western Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, organize annual communal fishing expeditions called kuarao, in which the entire village community takes part. Early in the morning a large circle of bush ...
AGRIS record. Record number, XF9440531. Titles, The value today of traditional management and kno... more AGRIS record. Record number, XF9440531. Titles, The value today of traditional management and knowledge of coastal marine resources in Oceania. ...
Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connec... more Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connected and resourced, the discipline – standing apart from the British and American centres of anthropology – is well placed to offer critical reflection. In this book, an inclusive cast, from PhDs to professors, debate the complexities of anthropology as practised in Norway today and in the past. Norwegian anthropologists have long made public engagement a priority – whether Carl Lumholz collecting for museums from 1880; activists protesting with the Sámi in 1980; or in numerous recent contributions to international development. Contributors explore the challenges of remaining socially relevant, of working in an egalitarian society that de-emphasizes difference, and of changing relations to the state, in the context of a turn against multi-culturalism. It is perhaps above all a commitment to time-consuming, long-term fieldwork that provides a shared sense of identity for this admirably div...
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the multiple ways in which rural economic wealth in the New Georgia... more ABSTRACT This paper discusses the multiple ways in which rural economic wealth in the New Georgia islands of the western Solomons has been built up in both ephemeral and enduring ways through several decades of intensive industrial logging on customary lands. The scale of wealth accumulation in the rural western Solomons and the often associated process of dispossession of communal natural resource rights are rarely taken into account in discussions of political economy in early 21st-century Solomon Islands. Through this paper, changing configurations and trajectories of accumulation and dispossession are traced. The comparison of two distinctly different processes whereby collective social agency over customary land is weakened, ultimately for accumulation in the hands of a few, involves a discussion about the centralisation and disintegration, respectively, of customary chieftainship in New Georgia. This leads to a more general assessment of how authority over customary land in Melanesia can be the subject of large-scale dispossession.
In the Pacific islands subsistence diversity made possible continuous production of food while we... more In the Pacific islands subsistence diversity made possible continuous production of food while well-developed exchange networks redistributed these foodstuffs as well as items within the prestige economy. All these were aspects of the 'storage structures' that enabled social and nutritional value to be saved, accumulated and later mobilized. In addition there were investments in the land, landesque capital, which secured future food surpluses and so provided an alternative to food storage, in a region where the staple foods were mostly perishable, yams excepted, and food preservation was difficult. Landesque capital included such long-term improvements to productivity as terraces, mounds, irrigation channels, drainage ditches, soil structural changes and tree planting. These investments provided an effective alternative to food storage and made possible surplus production for exchange purposes. As an example, in the New Georgia group of the western Solomon Islands irrigated terraces, termed ruta, were constructed for growing the root crop taro (Colocasia esculenta). Surplus taro from ruta enabled inland groups to participate in regional exchange networks and so obtain the shell valuables that were produced by coastal groups. In this paper we reconstruct how this exchange system worked in New Georgia using ethno-archaeological evidence, we chart its prehistoric rise and post-colonial fall, and we outline the factors that constrained its long-term expansion.
Revista Internacional De Ciencias Sociales International Social Science Journal, 2003
En el presente documento se examina lo que el autor describe como la "mundializacion comprim... more En el presente documento se examina lo que el autor describe como la "mundializacion comprimida" en la region del sur del Pacifico, con un interes especial por las Islas Salomon. Sobre la base de un trabajo de campo etnografico de larga duracion en el "foco critico" de la laguna de Marovo, con respecto a la diversidad biologica, el autor aborda la complejidad de diversos encuentros local-mundial durante los anos noventa, en los que participaron aldeanos indigenas propietarios de recursos, empresas transnacionales de extraccion de madera y minerales e iniciativas ecologistas extranjeras de organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG). Se da prioridad a la situacion controvertida de los bosques hidrofilos situados en torno a la laguna de Marovo. Mientras que las empresas asiaticas extractivas deseaban una rapida explotacion de grandes reservas de madera, ONG occidentales (y otros organismos gubernamentales analogos) deseaban la conservacion de los bosques en aras de la biodiversidad mundial. Los aldeanos que poseen las tierras forestales con arreglo al derecho consuetudinario respaldado por el Estado siguen vias imprevisibles entre los tipos discrepantes de aspiraciones extranjeras (y mundiales), haciendo hincapie en su propia autonomia con respecto a las condiciones de la vida contemporanea de la aldea. Estos encuentros postcoloniales se caracterizan por la incertidumbre mutua y la falta de conocimiento de los programas morales y politicos de la "otra parte". Sin embargo, la falta de una comprension compartida esta lejos de inhibir una colaboracion efectiva, ya se trate de acuerdos a corto plazo para la extraccion de madera o de "proyectos de conservacion basados en la comunidad" iniciados por una ONG. En estos proyectos, definidos por medio de conceptos indigenas, las aspiraciones divergentes parecen converger aunque sea de manera inestable.
List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: The Ethnographic Experi... more List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction: The Ethnographic Experiment in Island Melanesia Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg Chapter 1. Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation Christine Dureau Chapter 2. Across the New Georgia Group: A.M. Hocart's Fieldwork as Inter-Island Practice Edvard Hviding Chapter 3. The Genealogical Method: Vella Lavella Reconsidered Cato Berg Chapter 4. Rivers and the Study of Kinship in Ambrym: Mother Right and Father Right Revisited Knut M. Rio and Annelin Eriksen Chapter 5. House Upon Pacific Sand: W.H.R. Rivers and his 1908 Ethnographic 'Survey Work' Thorgeir S. Kolshus Chapter 6. Colonialism as Shell-Shock: W.H.R. Rivers's Explanations for Depopulation in Melanesia Tim Bayliss-Smith Chapter 7. A Vanishing People or a Vanishing Discourse? W.H.R. Rivers's 'Psychological Factor' and Depopulation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Judith A. Bennett Chapter 8. Objects and Photographs from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition Tim Thomas Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund Transcribed by Tim Bayliss-Smith Appendix II: Materials in archives from the 1908 fieldwork in Island Melanesia Cato Berg
... À ce moment-là, chapa est souvent remplacé par umoro (voir ci-dessous). • Keli pajara ... On ... more ... À ce moment-là, chapa est souvent remplacé par umoro (voir ci-dessous). • Keli pajara ... On peut observer de tels groupes à n'importe quel moment de l'année, mais ils sont plus nombreux enmars.9 • Le picot (Siganus punctatus et, éventuellement, S. vermiculatus - dudu) ...
The people of Chea village, centrally located in the great Marovo Lagoon of the western Solomon I... more The people of Chea village, centrally located in the great Marovo Lagoon of the western Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, organize annual communal fishing expeditions called kuarao, in which the entire village community takes part. Early in the morning a large circle of bush ...
AGRIS record. Record number, XF9440531. Titles, The value today of traditional management and kno... more AGRIS record. Record number, XF9440531. Titles, The value today of traditional management and knowledge of coastal marine resources in Oceania. ...
Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connec... more Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connected and resourced, the discipline – standing apart from the British and American centres of anthropology – is well placed to offer critical reflection. In this book, an inclusive cast, from PhDs to professors, debate the complexities of anthropology as practised in Norway today and in the past. Norwegian anthropologists have long made public engagement a priority – whether Carl Lumholz collecting for museums from 1880; activists protesting with the Sámi in 1980; or in numerous recent contributions to international development. Contributors explore the challenges of remaining socially relevant, of working in an egalitarian society that de-emphasizes difference, and of changing relations to the state, in the context of a turn against multi-culturalism. It is perhaps above all a commitment to time-consuming, long-term fieldwork that provides a shared sense of identity for this admirably div...
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the multiple ways in which rural economic wealth in the New Georgia... more ABSTRACT This paper discusses the multiple ways in which rural economic wealth in the New Georgia islands of the western Solomons has been built up in both ephemeral and enduring ways through several decades of intensive industrial logging on customary lands. The scale of wealth accumulation in the rural western Solomons and the often associated process of dispossession of communal natural resource rights are rarely taken into account in discussions of political economy in early 21st-century Solomon Islands. Through this paper, changing configurations and trajectories of accumulation and dispossession are traced. The comparison of two distinctly different processes whereby collective social agency over customary land is weakened, ultimately for accumulation in the hands of a few, involves a discussion about the centralisation and disintegration, respectively, of customary chieftainship in New Georgia. This leads to a more general assessment of how authority over customary land in Melanesia can be the subject of large-scale dispossession.
In the Pacific islands subsistence diversity made possible continuous production of food while we... more In the Pacific islands subsistence diversity made possible continuous production of food while well-developed exchange networks redistributed these foodstuffs as well as items within the prestige economy. All these were aspects of the 'storage structures' that enabled social and nutritional value to be saved, accumulated and later mobilized. In addition there were investments in the land, landesque capital, which secured future food surpluses and so provided an alternative to food storage, in a region where the staple foods were mostly perishable, yams excepted, and food preservation was difficult. Landesque capital included such long-term improvements to productivity as terraces, mounds, irrigation channels, drainage ditches, soil structural changes and tree planting. These investments provided an effective alternative to food storage and made possible surplus production for exchange purposes. As an example, in the New Georgia group of the western Solomon Islands irrigated terraces, termed ruta, were constructed for growing the root crop taro (Colocasia esculenta). Surplus taro from ruta enabled inland groups to participate in regional exchange networks and so obtain the shell valuables that were produced by coastal groups. In this paper we reconstruct how this exchange system worked in New Georgia using ethno-archaeological evidence, we chart its prehistoric rise and post-colonial fall, and we outline the factors that constrained its long-term expansion.
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