M Rohatynskyj
Biographic Data
| ID | 14580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Rohatynskyj |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohatynskyj |
| SIGNATURE | ROHATYNSKYJ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2683-4228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
Ömie Neighbors, Contact History, and the Ethnographic Encounter
Conclusion
Social D arwinism
The major proponent of social Darwinism is the British sociologist Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) who held that the upper classes are more fit, physically and morally, than lower classes in society. His thinking developed in an intellectual milieu shared with Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution in the natural world and demonstrates a reduction of social explanations of human variability to biology. As an academic position, social Darwinism has be…
Diffusionism
Diffusionism arose in the formulation of the discipline of anthropology as an explanation of cultural similarity across geographical regions. It posited that elements of culture, often termed “culture traits,” were invented once and spread out to neighboring groups undergoing adaptation in their progress. Early diffusionists are referred to as “extreme diffusionists” in the present because their accounts of historical movements of traits around t…
The importance of ‘tooglies’ to the ethnography of F.E. Williams, government anthropologist
The theoretical orientation, encapsulated in the semi‐serious concept of ‘tooglies'of F.E. Williams, government anthropologist for the Territory of Papua in the inter‐war period, is considered. His ideas about culture change are contrasted with those of Bronislaw Malinowski, who acted as his mentor at one time. His treatment of the social organisational anomaly of Sogeri Koiari ‘sex affiliation’, often cited as a case of parallel bilineal descent…
Modern Őmie Women
The women of Őmie Artists, a cooperative that produces original bark cloth paintings for the global indigenous art market, are described in contemporary ethnographic publications as ranked into a hierarchy of chiefs on the basis of their 'wisdom' which is expressed in their paintings. This depiction of the Őmie, who comprise a marginalized population of less than 2000 in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea, is dramatically different from what was kn…
Ő mie Art and Ő mie Artists©
The bark cloth paintings produced by the women of Ő mie Artists© have in recent years drawn acclaim in the art world for their originality and vibrancy. The artists’ cooperative follows the organisational structures of some A ustralian A boriginal art movements, as well as the channels of distribution and valuation of this indigenous art. In spite of what appears to be a major adjustment of traditional cultural forms, Ő mie bark cloth paintings a…
Empowering the dividual
The utility of the term 'dividual' in the evaluation of a microenterprise project mounted by a major transnational corporation in Madhya Pradesh, India, is considered. Aimed at the empowerment of poor rural women and deployed across India as well as in several other countries, the project itself challenges the constraints of poverty and traditionalism on women's agency, particularly within the husband/wife relationship. Melanesian and Indian vers…
Martin, Kier
Anthropos , Seite 311 - 312
Development Discourse and Selling Soap in Madhya Pradesh, India
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) presents Project Shakti as aimed at empowering poor, rural women as well as providing an innovative mechanism for the distribution of HUL goods to villagers in relatively remote areas. In addressing the current Corporate Social Responsibility debate of whether there can be consistency between corporate interests and those of the poor, this article describes the functioning of Project Shakti and asks whether it doe…
On Knowing the Baining and Other Minor Ethnic Groups of East New Britain
Berger, Iris and E. Frances White, Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
BERGER, Iris and E. Frances WHITE, WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Restoring Women to History." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 33(1), pp. 148–149
My Friend Amsatou Barry
This is a narrative account of my relationship with a Fulbe woman in Burkina Faso who at first acted as my anthropological informant and then became my friend. I consider a number of related issues: the responsibility that anthropologists feel for their informants in such settings, our overlapping and diverging identities, racism and sexism in the context of a multiethnic community, and the basis of our friendship. The narrative shows how class a…
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
This accessible 1999 study of social class in contemporary Papua New Guinea deals with the new elite, its culture and its institutions, and its relationship to the broader society. The Papua New Guinea described here is not a place of exotic tribesmen, but a modernising society, shaped by global forces, and increasingly divided on class lines. The authors describes the life-style of the elite Wewak, a typical commercial centre, their golf clubs a…
Reorient
Governance and Reform in the South Pacific
Aid donors increasingly believe that development depends on 'good\ngovernance' . Recipients of grants and loans are scrutinised for their\nadherence to democracy, the absence of corruption, and their\nwillingness to carry out public sector reform.\nThis book is about issues of'governance' and 'good government' in the\nSouth Pacific, where small, mostly democratic, developing countries are\nrelatively dependent on foreign aid. Issues of good gover…
Home in the Islands
Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell. For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt to uncover humanity's relationship with the common dwelling. Fundamental to the interaction of humans and housing is the way people shape their living spaces, even redefining their purposes and meanings; their houses, in turn, influence how people live their lives and perpetuate the cultural structures that pr…
Solicited and Unsolicited History
The history presented by the Ömie in the pre‐Independence research appears fundamentally different from the history presented by the Ömie in more recent research. The basis for considering these two renditions as analytically equivalent is examined. It is proposed that the justification lies not so much in the content of the two representations as in the negotiations of the terms of the ethnographic encounter which elicited them. It is proposed t…
Culture, secrets, and Ömie history
A major transformation in cultural self-presentation, signaled by the abandonment of the practice of sex affiliation, between the Ömie of the self-government period and those of the postindependence period, is documented. The causes of this transformation are illuminated by an understanding of the relationship between the informants of the community under study and the researcher, viewed in comparative perspective at these two points in time. In …
The Personhood of Women and Community Development in a Burkinabé Village
A community actualized development program aiming to assure women equ al access to benefits of development is examined in terms of impact on women's status. The interaction of forms of organization envisaged in village as leading to development and indigenous structures often lead to conflict. This conflict can be seen as due to lack of fit between extant forms of organization and those introduced by development agency. However, it is shown that …
The Larger Context of Omie Sex Affiliation
Women's Virtue and the Structure of the Mossi Zaka
Cet article considère les variations dans la taille et la composition de la zakse d'un village Mossi. Ni la définition normative de la zaka comme unité de production et de consommation, ni le cycle de développement du groupe domestique ne rendent compte de la variation. On a utilisé l'approche de Meillassoux pour analyser la composition de la zakse la moins typique du point de vue de la structure minime des avances et des rendements qui lient ent…
Culture, secrets, and Ömie history
A major transformation in cultural self-presentation, signaled by the abandonment of the practice of sex affiliation, between the Ömie of the self-government period and those of the postindependence period, is documented. The causes of this transformation are illuminated by an understanding of the relationship between the informants of the community under study and the researcher, viewed in comparative perspective at these two points in time. In …
The Larger Context of Omie Sex Affiliation
Governance and Reform in the South Pacific
Aid donors increasingly believe that development depends on 'good\ngovernance' . Recipients of grants and loans are scrutinised for their\nadherence to democracy, the absence of corruption, and their\nwillingness to carry out public sector reform.\nThis book is about issues of'governance' and 'good government' in the\nSouth Pacific, where small, mostly democratic, developing countries are\nrelatively dependent on foreign aid. Issues of good gover…
Empowering the dividual
The utility of the term 'dividual' in the evaluation of a microenterprise project mounted by a major transnational corporation in Madhya Pradesh, India, is considered. Aimed at the empowerment of poor rural women and deployed across India as well as in several other countries, the project itself challenges the constraints of poverty and traditionalism on women's agency, particularly within the husband/wife relationship. Melanesian and Indian vers…
Diffusionism
Diffusionism arose in the formulation of the discipline of anthropology as an explanation of cultural similarity across geographical regions. It posited that elements of culture, often termed “culture traits,” were invented once and spread out to neighboring groups undergoing adaptation in their progress. Early diffusionists are referred to as “extreme diffusionists” in the present because their accounts of historical movements of traits around t…
The Personhood of Women and Community Development in a Burkinabé Village
A community actualized development program aiming to assure women equ al access to benefits of development is examined in terms of impact on women's status. The interaction of forms of organization envisaged in village as leading to development and indigenous structures often lead to conflict. This conflict can be seen as due to lack of fit between extant forms of organization and those introduced by development agency. However, it is shown that …
Home in the Islands
Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell. For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt to uncover humanity's relationship with the common dwelling. Fundamental to the interaction of humans and housing is the way people shape their living spaces, even redefining their purposes and meanings; their houses, in turn, influence how people live their lives and perpetuate the cultural structures that pr…
Women's Virtue and the Structure of the Mossi Zaka
Cet article considère les variations dans la taille et la composition de la zakse d'un village Mossi. Ni la définition normative de la zaka comme unité de production et de consommation, ni le cycle de développement du groupe domestique ne rendent compte de la variation. On a utilisé l'approche de Meillassoux pour analyser la composition de la zakse la moins typique du point de vue de la structure minime des avances et des rendements qui lient ent…
The Larger Context of Omie Sex Affiliation
The Personhood of Women and Community Development in a Burkinabé Village
A community actualized development program aiming to assure women equ al access to benefits of development is examined in terms of impact on women's status. The interaction of forms of organization envisaged in village as leading to development and indigenous structures often lead to conflict. This conflict can be seen as due to lack of fit between extant forms of organization and those introduced by development agency. However, it is shown that …
Culture, secrets, and Ömie history
A major transformation in cultural self-presentation, signaled by the abandonment of the practice of sex affiliation, between the Ömie of the self-government period and those of the postindependence period, is documented. The causes of this transformation are illuminated by an understanding of the relationship between the informants of the community under study and the researcher, viewed in comparative perspective at these two points in time. In …
Solicited and Unsolicited History
The history presented by the Ömie in the pre‐Independence research appears fundamentally different from the history presented by the Ömie in more recent research. The basis for considering these two renditions as analytically equivalent is examined. It is proposed that the justification lies not so much in the content of the two representations as in the negotiations of the terms of the ethnographic encounter which elicited them. It is proposed t…
Governance and Reform in the South Pacific
Aid donors increasingly believe that development depends on 'good\ngovernance' . Recipients of grants and loans are scrutinised for their\nadherence to democracy, the absence of corruption, and their\nwillingness to carry out public sector reform.\nThis book is about issues of'governance' and 'good government' in the\nSouth Pacific, where small, mostly democratic, developing countries are\nrelatively dependent on foreign aid. Issues of good gover…
Home in the Islands
Ordinary houses have extraordinary stories to tell. For more than a century, anthropologists have been recording these sagas in an attempt to uncover humanity's relationship with the common dwelling. Fundamental to the interaction of humans and housing is the way people shape their living spaces, even redefining their purposes and meanings; their houses, in turn, influence how people live their lives and perpetuate the cultural structures that pr…
Reorient
My Friend Amsatou Barry
This is a narrative account of my relationship with a Fulbe woman in Burkina Faso who at first acted as my anthropological informant and then became my friend. I consider a number of related issues: the responsibility that anthropologists feel for their informants in such settings, our overlapping and diverging identities, racism and sexism in the context of a multiethnic community, and the basis of our friendship. The narrative shows how class a…
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
This accessible 1999 study of social class in contemporary Papua New Guinea deals with the new elite, its culture and its institutions, and its relationship to the broader society. The Papua New Guinea described here is not a place of exotic tribesmen, but a modernising society, shaped by global forces, and increasingly divided on class lines. The authors describes the life-style of the elite Wewak, a typical commercial centre, their golf clubs a…
Berger, Iris and E. Frances White, Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
BERGER, Iris and E. Frances WHITE, WOMEN IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Restoring Women to History." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 33(1), pp. 148–149
On Knowing the Baining and Other Minor Ethnic Groups of East New Britain
Development Discourse and Selling Soap in Madhya Pradesh, India
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) presents Project Shakti as aimed at empowering poor, rural women as well as providing an innovative mechanism for the distribution of HUL goods to villagers in relatively remote areas. In addressing the current Corporate Social Responsibility debate of whether there can be consistency between corporate interests and those of the poor, this article describes the functioning of Project Shakti and asks whether it doe…
Martin, Kier
Anthropos , Seite 311 - 312
Ő mie Art and Ő mie Artists©
The bark cloth paintings produced by the women of Ő mie Artists© have in recent years drawn acclaim in the art world for their originality and vibrancy. The artists’ cooperative follows the organisational structures of some A ustralian A boriginal art movements, as well as the channels of distribution and valuation of this indigenous art. In spite of what appears to be a major adjustment of traditional cultural forms, Ő mie bark cloth paintings a…
Empowering the dividual
The utility of the term 'dividual' in the evaluation of a microenterprise project mounted by a major transnational corporation in Madhya Pradesh, India, is considered. Aimed at the empowerment of poor rural women and deployed across India as well as in several other countries, the project itself challenges the constraints of poverty and traditionalism on women's agency, particularly within the husband/wife relationship. Melanesian and Indian vers…
The importance of ‘tooglies’ to the ethnography of F.E. Williams, government anthropologist
The theoretical orientation, encapsulated in the semi‐serious concept of ‘tooglies'of F.E. Williams, government anthropologist for the Territory of Papua in the inter‐war period, is considered. His ideas about culture change are contrasted with those of Bronislaw Malinowski, who acted as his mentor at one time. His treatment of the social organisational anomaly of Sogeri Koiari ‘sex affiliation’, often cited as a case of parallel bilineal descent…
Modern Őmie Women
The women of Őmie Artists, a cooperative that produces original bark cloth paintings for the global indigenous art market, are described in contemporary ethnographic publications as ranked into a hierarchy of chiefs on the basis of their 'wisdom' which is expressed in their paintings. This depiction of the Őmie, who comprise a marginalized population of less than 2000 in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea, is dramatically different from what was kn…
Social D arwinism
The major proponent of social Darwinism is the British sociologist Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) who held that the upper classes are more fit, physically and morally, than lower classes in society. His thinking developed in an intellectual milieu shared with Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution in the natural world and demonstrates a reduction of social explanations of human variability to biology. As an academic position, social Darwinism has be…
Diffusionism
Diffusionism arose in the formulation of the discipline of anthropology as an explanation of cultural similarity across geographical regions. It posited that elements of culture, often termed “culture traits,” were invented once and spread out to neighboring groups undergoing adaptation in their progress. Early diffusionists are referred to as “extreme diffusionists” in the present because their accounts of historical movements of traits around t…
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
Ömie Neighbors, Contact History, and the Ethnographic Encounter
Conclusion
Sociology (17 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · History (12 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works)