The Story of Storyboards from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Martin Soukup ◽  
Dušan Lužný
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
The Village

This study analyzes and interprets East Sepik storyboards, which the authors regard as a form of cultural continuity and instrument of cultural memory in the post-colonial period. The study draws on field research conducted by the authors in the village of Kambot in East Sepik. The authors divide the storyboards into two groups based on content. The first includes storyboards describing daily life in the community, while the other links the daily life to pre-Christian religious beliefs and views. The aim of the study is to analyze one of the forms of contemporary material culture in East Sepik in the context of cultural changes triggered by Christianization, colonial administration in the former Territory of New Guinea and global tourism.

scholarly journals Religious Memory in a Changing Society: The Case of India and Papua New Guinea

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Dušan Lužný
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
National Memory ◽  
The Village ◽  
Changing Society

The study analyzes the place of religion in the national collective memory and the changes that have taken place in the field of religion in connection with the modernization and emergence of modern nationstates in India and Papua New Guinea (PNG). In the case of PNG, we look at the place of Christianization in the process of modernization, while in the case of India, we analyze the use of Hinduism in the process of forming national identity. Both cases are analyzed with the use of selected cases of material culture in specific localities and they show the ongoing struggle for the incorporation or segregation of original religious tradition into national identity. Both cases are analyzed on the basis of field research. In the case of India, we look at Bharat Mata Mandir in Haridwar, and in the case of Papua New Guinea, the tambaran building in the village of Kambot in East Sepik Province. While Bharat Mata Mandir demonstrates the modernization of tradition and the incorporation of religion into modern (originally secular) nationalism, the decline in tambaran houses is a result of Christianization and the modernization of PNG. The study shows that if there is a connection between religious memory and national memory (or national identity), the religious tradition is maintained or strengthened, whereas when religious memory and national memory are disconnected, religious memory is weakened in a modernizing society.

DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE NORMS: THE OFFICE DU NIGER AND DECENTRALIZATION IN FRENCH SUDAN AND MALI

Africa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamadou Diawara
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Third World ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Trace Back ◽  
Office Du Niger ◽  
French Colonial

ABSTRACTThis article analyses the historical roots of decentralization, a policy which is presented in the development world as the miracle cure to Third World evils. The text is based on the current literature on the topic as well as field research carried out in Mali in the Office du Niger region, which, already in the colonial period, represented a particular decentralization challenge. It offers a critical perspective on the concept of decentralization, which some trace back to the Middle Ages, and examines colonial experiences. How can the Malian state, inherited from the colonial state, decentralize everything whilst adopting the policy according to which the lands of the central delta of the Niger have been state-owned property since 1935? The aim is to show the analogy between problems encountered by the French colonial state and those that plague the Malian post-colonial state, whilst guarding against the sirens of a false authenticity reeking of neo-traditionalism.

The Material Culture of the Inhabitants of Gorendu and Bongu Villages (New Guinea) at the Beginning of the XXI century: Traditions and innovations (based on field research)

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-255
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Local Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Transformation Processes

In September 2017, the research expedition conducted by the N.N. Mikloukho-Maclay Foundation, carried out a field research at the Maclay Coast (New Guinea) and collected valuable ethnographic data on the material culture of the Bongu-speaking Papuans. The results allow to identify both the stability of certain traditions and the transformation processes that have taken place in the local society over the past 40 years (since the Soviet expedition worked in this territory).

scholarly journals Szlakiem białoruskich Poleszuków (raport z badań terenowych)

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 215-236
Author(s):  
Mirosław Jankowiak ◽  
Łukasz Grajewski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Russian Language

Tracing the Belorussian Poleszuks (a report on field research)The present article is a report on field research conducted in summer 2010 in order to collect dialectological material. 13 localities were researched altogether: Pinsk and 11 villages of the Pinsk district and one village of the Stolin district. During the interviews the following topics were discussed: the language situation in the village, issues of national identity, visions of Polesia and Poleszuks, traditions and customs, issues of confession, attitude towards the process of draining bogs or image of Poland and Poles. Belorussian linguists (e.g. A. Krywicki) take note of the fact that Polesia, despite frequent dialectological research, has not been described accurately enough by linguists. The rich material collected showed not only well-preserved dialects of Polesia of Ukrainian basis (slight influence mainly of the Russian language can be observed with people of the oldest generation) but also strong though disappearing spiritual and material culture of the inhabitants of Polesia. По следам белорусских полешуков (отчёт по итогам полевых исследований) Настоящая статья является рапортом полевых исследований, проведённых летом 2010 г. с целью сбора диалектологического материала. Исследование охватило 13 населённых пунктов – город Пинск, 11 деревень Пинского района и одну деревню Столинского района Брестской области Беларуси. В интервью затрагивались следующие темы: языковая ситуация в деревне, вопросы национального самосознания, образы Полесья и полешуков, традиции и обычаи, вопросы вероисповедания, отношение к процессу мелиорации, а также образ Польши и поляков. Белорусские филологи (напр. А. Кривицкий) обращают внимание на то, что несмотря на многочисленные диалектологические исследования, Полесье остаётся территорией, которая всё ещё недостаточно подробно описана языковедами. Собранный обширный материал показал не только хорошо сохранившиеся полесские диалекты с украинской основой (среди респондентов старшего поколения видны незначительные влияния в основном русского языка), но и до сих пор сильную, хотя и угасающую духовную и материальную культуру полешуков.

The Development of cotton in Northern Ivory Coast, 1910–1965

1988 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Bassett
Keyword(s):  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Productive Process ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Political Economic

This article seeks to redress the largely contemporary bias and technologically deterministic approach of agricultural historians of cotton in francophone West Africa. It does this by arguing that the expansion of cotton since the 1960s has depended upon major socio-economic and cultural changes in agrarian production systems during the colonial period as much as on technological innovations in the post-colonial period. The study focuses on the political–economic and socio-cultural processes behind the emergence of an export-oriented, commodity producing peasantry among the Senufo of northern Ivory Coast. A periodization of cotton development is presented in which the gradual dissolution of precolonial production units and the gestation of smaller social units with new economic needs is emphasized. This restructuring of agricultural production systems is related to a complex interplay of internal and external factors, notably coercive state policies, the monetization of Senufo society and the internalization of commodity relations, conflicts between social groups and the direct intervention of foreign agribusiness in the productive process. Despite low levels of cotton output during the colonial period, the resultant transformation of production relations was crucial to the contemporary intensification of cotton growing.

scholarly journals Religious Harmony Within Ahmadiyah Community: (Study of Living Qur'an and the Peace Construction in the Village of Gondrong Kenanga

Al-Albab ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Adrika Fithrotul Aini
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Community Study ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
The Village

In the midst of intolerant attitudes toward Ahmadiyah, the community of Ahmadiyah in Gondrong Kenanga present as a villagers that value diversity. Not only Ahmadiyah followers but also many other groups live in the village, such as Muslims affiliated to NU, Muhammadiyah, and other groups of religious believers. Interstingly, in everyday life they are able to protect themselve from getting involved in conflict and creating a peaceful and harmonious life. Harmony in the village Gondrong appears in at least two forms including in the pattern of inter-community relations in the environment and in daily life interction of people reflected in the social environment. Gondrong Ahmadiyah community is actively involved in various social activities that promote tolerance, cooperation, and solidarity. The work aims at getting the concept of peace in the Ahmadiyah community in Gondrong Kenanga. This study also examines the living Qur’an regarding the understanding of the concept of pluralism and harmony within Ahmadiyah members. This work is based on a field research project on the phenomenon of living Qur’an studies that examines the understanding of the Islamic teaching on diversity by the Jamaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia of Gondrong-kenanga (JAIG), and also the construction of peace which is practiced in their daily life.

HARMONI MASYARAKAT ISLAM DAN HINDU DI DESA LINGSAR, KABUPATEN LOMBOK BARAT (Ditinjau dari Perspektif Pierre Bourdieu)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Ahmad Khaerul Kholidi
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
The Village

This paper provides us with an understanding of Bourdieu's theory. How the tolerance between Muslims and Hinduism comes as a religion that upholds the values of tolerance. The Islam and Hinduism communities of Lingsar are able to fortify and form harmony and even become a direction for religions outside the village of Lingsar that still form a harmony between both communities of Islam and Hindu. In Lingsar village there are two different Islam and Hindu religious communities but in their daily life they are able to create a peaceful and harmonious life. Thus Lingsar Village should be used as a village that maintains tolerance in religious attitude. The study looked at Bourdeiu's viewpoint of habitus, ranging from the concept of harmony to society, the advent of Islam and Hinduism in Lombok, and the harmonious relation between Islam and Hinduism in the ritual frame and festival of the show.      

Conflicts in Biafra, Katanga and Cabinda as a result of the geopolitical legacy of colonialism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽  
pp. 238-246
Author(s):  
Olga Dzhenchakova
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

The article considers the impact of the colonial past of some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and its effect on their development during the post-colonial period. The negative consequences of the geopolitical legacy of colonialism are shown on the example of three countries: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Angola, expressed in the emergence of conflicts in these countries based on ethno-cultural, religious and socio-economic contradictions. At the same time, the focus is made on the economic factor and the consequences of the consumer policy of the former metropolises pursuing their mercantile interests were mixed.

DINAMIKA POLITIK PERSETUJUAN BERSAMA TENTANG PENETAPAN DESA ADAT DI KABUPATEN ROKAN HULU TAHUN 2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Haryo Suganda ◽  
Raja Muhammad Amin
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Region ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Information Method ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Village

This study is motivated the identification of policies issued by the regional Governmentof Rokan Hulu in the form of Regulatory region number 1 by 2015 on the determination of thevillage and Indigenous Village. Political dynamics based on various interests against themanufacture of, and decision-making in the process of formation of the corresponding localregulations determination of Indigenous Villages in the Rokan Hulu is impacted to a verysignificantamount of changes from the initial draft of the number i.e. 21 (twenty one) the villagebecame Customary 89 (eighty-nine) the Indigenous Villages who have passed. Type of thisresearch is a qualitative descriptive data analysis techniques. The research aims to describe theState of the real situation in a systematic and accurate fact analysis unit or related research, aswell as observations of the field based on the data (information). Method of data collectionwas done with interviews, documentation, and observations through fieldwork (field research).The results of the research on the process of discussion of the draft local regulations andmutual agreement about Designation of Indigenous Villages in the Rokan Hulu is, showed thatthe political dynamics that occur due to the presence of various political interests, rejectionorally by Villagers who were judged to have met the requirements of Draft Regulations to beformulated and the area for the set to be Indigenous Villages, and also there is a desire fromsome villages in the yet to Draft local regulations in order to set the Indigenous village , there isa wide range of interests of these aspects influenced the agreement to assign the entire localVillage which is in the Rokan Hulu become Indigenous village, and the village of Transmigrationinto administrative Villages where the initiator of the changes in the number of IndigenousVillages in the Rokan Hulu it is the desire of the local Government of its own.

“These Shall Come from Far”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Bross
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
New England ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The World ◽  
Basket Maker

Chapter 3 analyzes English claims to a central role in a global network of indigenous and English people connected by faith around the world, claims made manifest in Of the Conversion of Five Thousand Nine Hundred Indians on the Island of Formosa, a 1650 publication by Baptist minister Henry Jessey, printed by radical bookseller Hannah Allen. It reports on Dutch missions in Taiwan, comparing them with evangelism efforts in New England. The coda considers the experiences of an Algonquian woman who is unnamed in Jessey’s tract but is identified as a basket maker, speculating on the meaning she may have encoded in her basket designs. Though we cannot “read” them directly, the fact that she made them, coupled with the provocative arguments offered by recent scholars about Native material culture in the colonial period, enables us to reconsider the print archive in which she appears.

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