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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02484.x

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTThis paper explores Olive Pink's writings of the 1930s, with particular emphasis on her stern moral convictions, and her insistence that persons of mixed Aboriginal and other descent were not Aborigines. It suggests that these two issues were linked, and may best be understood in the context of the contemporary preoccupation with saving a race which had long been regarded as doomed to extinction.

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02485.x

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTIn this paper I extend upon the categories of appropriation identified by Beings, land and people. Using the work of Nancy Munn (1984) and Annette Weiner (1992), I argue that the relationship between objects, place, Beings and people is of a consubstantial and inalienable nature. Following on from this argument, I propose that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights and interests in land or waters, as defined by the recent Native Title legislation, cannot be alienated from rights and interests in other cultural possessions. These other cultural forms includetjurunga, as well as songs, ceremonies and paintings. As this suggests, in the post‐Mabo landscape museums represent important collecting sites for indigenous people; a somewhat different identity to the former status of museums as sites of indigenous collection

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02486.x

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTMelanesian religious movements tend to conform to two contrasting types of regime: the one relatively centralized, hierarchical, stable, long‐lived, and nationalistic; the other fragmented, egalitarian, unstable, sporadic, and parochial. Existing theories of ‘cargo cults’, including the progressivist hypothesis which views millenarism as the natural precursor of nationalism, have failed to appreciate this fundamental divergence. It is shown that politico‐religious regimes are rooted in alternative cognitive processes, a point which is illustrated with reference to the Pomio Kivung movement of New Britain and the Taro cult of Northern Papua. One implication of this argument is that typologies of cults, based on ideological variation, are of limited sociological import, and rather that the structure and scale of cults are artefacts of distinctive styles of cognition, codification, and trans

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02487.x

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTThe diverse societies of eastern Indonesia have, for some time, been recognised as important contexts for the study of dual classification. In this region the practice of dual classification is evident in a multitude of social forms. It is found in the range of conventional expressions for category distinctions as well as in the formal organisation of ceremonial contexts and structural patterns of society. This paper examines the expression of certain dual classificatory forms as they appear in three types of ritual processes in West Timorese society. My purpose is to show how this type of classification provides a vital conceptual means to both protect the well‐being of participants in the conduct of the ritual processes, and at the same time, to effect symbolic and celebratory affirmations of life. I argue that in the manipulation and interaction of the dual categories it is possible to recognise a striking commonality of purpos

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02488.x

年代:1994

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ABSTRACTJames (Oceania1991) criticizes some of my interpretive proposals on the political ideology of ancient Tonga, claiming that my emphasis on predominantly male relationships in the titular system reduces ‘Polynesian truths’ to ‘Freudian dogma‘. James sees Tonga as a ‘markedly bilateral’ rather than ‘patrilineal’ society, manifesting symptoms of Malinowski's ‘matrilineal complex’, particularly an incestuous fixation on the sister rather than the mother, correlated with the importance of the brother/sister relationship in social structure, and the alleged transmission of rank through females only.James attempts to find evidence for her claims in the origin myth of the titular system. I show that — contrary to her interpretation — no brother/sister incest can be found in this myth, where, moreover, the female presence is subdued and desexualized. My rejoinder raises issues of general anthropological interest in the realms of symbolism, gender, the analysis of political myth, and of the interrelationship of psychological

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02489.x

年代:1994

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02490.x

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A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being. ByTony Swain.Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. 303. Price $A29.95 paperback.

ISSN:0029-8077    

DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02491.x

年代:1994

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Pacific 2010: Planning the Future: Melanesian Cities in 2010. ByJohn ConnellandJohn P. Lea.National Centre for Development Studies (at The Australian National University). 1993. Pp. viii + 163. Price $A25.00.

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DOI:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1994.tb02492.x

年代:1994

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