D Lipset
Biographic Data
| ID | 9595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Lipset |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipset |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSET D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9555-0416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Conquistador Freud
Richard Werbner, a well-known Africanist with a long-standing commitment to visual methods, has produced an experimental, six-part documentary project on the art Sigmund Freud displayed in Berggass
Family, Faith, Footy
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu. Directed by Wong‐KaluHinaleimoana, HamerDean and WilsonJoe. Honolulu, HI, USA
The Chinese in Papua New Guinea
Buschmann Rainer F., Hoarding New Guinea
Kahn, Alison L
Ton Otto, Christian Suhr and Gary Kildea
Book review
Knapp, Gina (dir.) & SusanneKuehling (prod.). Voices of kula. 86 mins. Online video, colour. Regina
Sentient ecologies
Ordinarily in volumes of collected essays, editors attempt to make book titles, theoretical frameworks and contents coincide, at least loosely. But this is not exactly the case in Sentient Ecologies. It is true that the book does demonstrate how landscapes are assigned hostile socio-political values that express fear and loathing of outsiders, thus the subtitle, “xenophobic imaginaries of landscapes.” However, none of the chapters, the majority o…
Compte rendu de In the Shadow of the Palms
Tupaia's Endeavour by Lala Rolls
Reviewed by: Tupaia’s Endeavour by Lala Rolls David Lipset Lala Rolls, Producer/Director. Tupaia’s Endeavour. Random Films, New Zealand, Island Productions, 2019. 1:59 minutes. Color. Their land claims having been contested, lost, but lately reinstated in some cases, during the past several decades, Pacific peoples living in settler colonial states have sought to re-assert and reclaim nothing less than the legitimacy, authority, and moral agency …
War and the Arc of the Human Experience
Chapter 1 Living Canoes Vehicles of Moral Imagination among the Murik of Papua New Guinea
Kunuk, Zacharias. One day in the life of Noah Piugattuk. iTunes. 113 mins, colour. Toronto
Ophir
Some documentary videos succeed as history and allegory. As its narrative is simultaneously about conflict between a mining company and customary landowners in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and an unholy ...
Come back anytime. Director
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World." Anthropological Forum, 32(4), pp. 371–372
Compte rendu de In Memory of Times to Come
The intellectual effort Melissa Demian has given over to the central analytic problem in her new ethnography is impressive. Drawing from the work of Marilyn Strathern, Nancy Munn as well as several other theorists and the cross-cultural record at large, she succeeds throughout her finely-crafted book to sort out how the Suau, who live in Milne Bay region of Papua New Guinea (png), assert ‘themselves’ amid pressures –Demian is reluctant to call th…
Anthropology of mobile phone use – a comparative review
Poltorak, Mike. The healer and the psychiatrist. DVD/PAL, 74 mins, colour. Watertown, Mass
Oceans Apart
An important thread in this fascinating new video is exile. International Pacific Island Rugby union players must leave home, which is to say, they must go overseas to ply their trade and leave kin
“Ophir” 2020. Directed by Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet. Arsam International and Fourth World Films. 97 minutes
Compte rendu de Fencing in aids
Since the beginning of fieldwork, exchange, myth and ritual, political action and social change have stood out in Melanesian ethnography. But perhaps one of the foremost topics in regional research has concerned the contested concept of the gendered person in society. Holly Wardlow’s Fencing in aids makes a strong contribution to this latter issue. The book, which is written with great clarity and organized with no less purpose, makes use of rese…
Frederick George Bailey (1924-2020)
Comedy and Other Hollywood Tropes of American Social Stratification (1990-2011)
In modern social theory, mass media have been seen as providing ideological support for the reproduction of class inequalities, and structures of exploitation and domination, in industrialized economies. Similarly, cultural anthropologists saw American stratification as contributing no less direct support of the status quo. However, selected Hollywood movies depict an actor-based and inclusive vision of American stratification. In close viewings …
Dialogics of material culture
We interpret material culture using a Bakhtinian model of dialogicality. Metaphoric differences in male and female perspectives of the building rites and iconography of premodern Murik outrigger canoes are adduced. Men view the vehicle in terms of initiation and their war cult while women view it in physiological images of pregnancy, birth, and nurture, as well as in terms of the seductive powers conferred upon female-cult initiates. We take thes…
Modernity without romance? Masculinity and desire in courtship stories told by young papua new guinean men
Romance has been theoretically associated with the estrangements created by modern individualism. As demonstrated in courtship stories told by young men from the Murik Lakes in Papua New Guinea, the relationship of Murik culture to modernity has not resulted in narratives that privilege a construction of courtship in which the self merges with the beloved. Desire is not defined in terms of romantic love but is set amid events that are scrupulousl…
The tides
In the wake of severe coastal erosion in 2007, views about rising sea-levels and climate change took on urgency among the Murik, a coastal people in Papua New Guinea. A theoretical question is raised by their discourse: how to conceptualize the relationship among multiple understandings of this event that would not silence local voices? Bakhtin's concepts of chronotopes and dialogue, referring to contested images of man in space and time, are use…
Margaret Mead
The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones
The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell voice, SMS and data subscriptions; and state actors regulate both everyday
The trial
According to students of legal pluralism, the relationship between Western law and local dispute management processes, remedies, and so on is multiple and complex. Legal pluralism studies have not ventured very far outside the arenas of conflict resolution, be they authorized or private. In this article, I argue that legal pluralism has imposed methodological blinders upon significant expressive dimensions of its problem. In a satirical mock-tria…
Mangrove Man
This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existent…
Culture, Exchange, and Gender
Place in the Anthropocene
This article examines the complex relationship between place and displacement in the context of rising sea levels in a mangrove lagoon in Papua New Guinea. Focusing on the experiences of the villagers of Gadaisu, David Lipset explores how their sense of place is intertwined with the lagoon's ecology, their history of movement and settlement, and their changing relationship with the sea. He argues that the anticipated displacement due to rising se…
A Melanesian Pygmalion
In the early 1990s, a piece of folk theater was created by a Sepik male cult. A kind of Melanesian Pygmalion story, the new show brought a beautiful woman to life, a woman who answered the desire of which "her" creator had been deprived. Like Pygmalion's woman, "she" acknowledged her creator's emasculation while celebrating the enduring spectacle of "his" art. The new show exemplified that in the Sepik, some marginalized, or subaltern, men were i…
Rereading Sex and Temperament
In her autobiography, Blackberry Winter, Margaret Mead (1972) recalled the goal of her well-known project in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935/1963). She wrote there that she had wanted to show "the different ways in which cultures patterned the expected behavior of males and females" (1972:102). A few pages later, however, she admitted that "the subject on which...[she] had particularly wanted to work" had been rather more d…
Yabar
This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the postcolonial modernity in which they find themselves adrift. Lipset analyses young menâ s elusive expressions of desire in courtship narratives, marijuana discourse, and mobile phone useâ in …
Mobile telephones as public sphere in peri-urban Papua New Guinea
In urban Papua New Guinea (png), attitudes about and uses of mobile phones may be construed as a kind of a Habermasian public sphere, albeit one whose moral space and discourse is characteristically Melanesian. That is to say, the notion of “public” is not sharply differentiated either from the state or the private domain. In png, the citizenry assess mobile phone use not to only criticize the legitimacy of the postcolonial state, but also compla…
O que faz um homem? Relendo Naven e The Gender of the Gift
Proponho neste ensaio que o conceito de masculinidade pioneiramente desenvolvido em Naven, de Gregory Bateson, sua monografia de 1936 a respeito do ritual e da sociedade entre os Iatmul, povo da Nova Guiné, foi o momento original da posição construtivista que se tornou predominante, não apenas nos estudos sobre masculinidade na Melanésia em particular, mas também nos estudos sobre masculinidade em geral. Minha proposta, no entanto, faz ainda uma …
What makes a man? Rereading Naven and The Gender of the Gift, 2004
In this essay, I argue that the concept of masculinity that was first developed in Bateson's Naven, his 1936 monograph about ritual and society among the Iatmul, a New Guinea people, was an originary moment for the constructivist position that has come to hold sway, not only over masculinity studies in Melanesia in specific, but over masculinity studies in general. My thesis, however, advances a more definite claim: Bateson's prescient view of ge…
The Problem of Mute Metaphor
This article examines how genealogical relationships are differentially expressed by women and men. In particular, it analyzes five paired sets of kinship data that were collected in a Melanesian society during the early 1980s. These data support the following assertions: (1) between the sexes, discourse of kinship is not monologic or closed off from contestation or at least disagreement; (2) the ways in which kinship discourse varies does not en…
Max Weber
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy. John Patrick Diggins. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 334 pp
Frederick George Bailey (1924-2020)
Comedy and Other Hollywood Tropes of American Social Stratification (1990-2011)
In modern social theory, mass media have been seen as providing ideological support for the reproduction of class inequalities, and structures of exploitation and domination, in industrialized economies. Similarly, cultural anthropologists saw American stratification as contributing no less direct support of the status quo. However, selected Hollywood movies depict an actor-based and inclusive vision of American stratification. In close viewings …
Disney’s Moana and the Portrayal of Moral Personhood in Hollywood’s Pacific (1932-2016)
The goal of this essay is not to build an argument about the commercial basis or ideological functions of Hollywood movies. My goal is exegetical or methodological. I want to shift the critique of Hollywood’s representations of Pacific peoples and cultures towards how they are and are not depicted as moral persons, the meaning of which I will detail below. I begin by introducing the concept of the moral person in social anthropology and in the wo…
On The Bridge
In the anthropology of romance in North America, little research has been done on 1) the relationship between love and society, and 2) love narratives. Drawing from Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope (1981; , ) and sociology of aesthetic taste, this article presents an exegesis of one falling-in-love narrative elicited from a young, middle-class man. As attraction develops episodically in the narrative, shared aesthetic tastes overcome perceived …
Fracturing resemblances
Fitz John Porter Poole (1941-2002)
Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands
Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change. RICHARD FEINBERG, ed. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. x + 237 pp., figures, maps, plates, notes, references, index
Gregory Bateson
Margaret Mead
Culture, Exchange, and Gender
A double tragedy
Feil, D. K. Ways of Exchange: The Enga Tee of Papua New Guinea. St. Lucia: Queensland University Press, 1984. xvi + 269 pp. including photographs, bibliography, and index. $37.50 cloth. Gordon, Robert J., and Mervyn J. Meggitt. Law and Order in the New Guinea Highlands: Encounters with Enga. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1985. xii + 283 pp. including bibiography, and index. $35.00 cloth. Strathern, Andrew. A Line of Power. New York: T…
Chambri Mysticism and Sepik Regional Exchange
Manambu Cosmology and Politics Stealing Peoples's Names
The Individual, Communication, and Society
From Muyuw to the Trobriands
Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society
Culture as a Hierarchy of SchemasHuman Motives and Cultural Models.Roy D'Andrade , Claudia Strauss
The Problem of Mute Metaphor
This article examines how genealogical relationships are differentially expressed by women and men. In particular, it analyzes five paired sets of kinship data that were collected in a Melanesian society during the early 1980s. These data support the following assertions: (1) between the sexes, discourse of kinship is not monologic or closed off from contestation or at least disagreement; (2) the ways in which kinship discourse varies does not en…
Nation Making
Mangrove Man
This was the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existential …
Dialogics of material culture
We interpret material culture using a Bakhtinian model of dialogicality. Metaphoric differences in male and female perspectives of the building rites and iconography of premodern Murik outrigger canoes are adduced. Men view the vehicle in terms of initiation and their war cult while women view it in physiological images of pregnancy, birth, and nurture, as well as in terms of the seductive powers conferred upon female-cult initiates. We take thes…
Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands
Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific Islands: Studies in Continuity and Change. RICHARD FEINBERG, ed. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995. x + 237 pp., figures, maps, plates, notes, references, index
Max Weber
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy. John Patrick Diggins. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 334 pp
Mangrove Man
This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who exercise political power, conceptualize women as the source of nurture, generosity and love. This conceptualization creates for men a kind of existent…
In Colonial New Guinea
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
Rereading Sex and Temperament
In her autobiography, Blackberry Winter, Margaret Mead (1972) recalled the goal of her well-known project in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935/1963). She wrote there that she had wanted to show "the different ways in which cultures patterned the expected behavior of males and females" (1972:102). A few pages later, however, she admitted that "the subject on which...[she] had particularly wanted to work" had been rather more d…
Modernity without romance? Masculinity and desire in courtship stories told by young papua new guinean men
Romance has been theoretically associated with the estrangements created by modern individualism. As demonstrated in courtship stories told by young men from the Murik Lakes in Papua New Guinea, the relationship of Murik culture to modernity has not resulted in narratives that privilege a construction of courtship in which the self merges with the beloved. Desire is not defined in terms of romantic love but is set amid events that are scrupulousl…
Fitz John Porter Poole (1941-2002)
The trial
According to students of legal pluralism, the relationship between Western law and local dispute management processes, remedies, and so on is multiple and complex. Legal pluralism studies have not ventured very far outside the arenas of conflict resolution, be they authorized or private. In this article, I argue that legal pluralism has imposed methodological blinders upon significant expressive dimensions of its problem. In a satirical mock-tria…
Dead Canoes
In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell seeks to reclaim the anthropology of art for the Durkheimian social. However, in the course of arguing that objects should be viewed as the "outcome, and/or the instrument, of ... agency" (Gell 1998: 15), he takes an essentialized view of the relationship of personhood to embodiment that, on the one hand, preconceives this relationship as consubstantial and, on the other, as static. Nevertheless, viewing art in Gell…
Author and Hero -- Rereading Gregory Bateson
Part of the original motivation that provoked my biography of Gregory Bateson Lipset 1980) was to arrive at an understanding of the course of his odd career and thinking in terms of his family background. In celebration of his 100th birthday, rereading it for the first time in twenty-five years, I find that my perspective of at least one dimension of this problem has changed somewhat. My earlier interpretation of the relationship between Gregory …
Another Kind of Gold
Widespread as marijuana has become in Papua New Guinea (PNG), little ethnographic investigation has been done on problems raised by its cultivation, consumption and traffic there. In this essay, we survey the legal contexts of its production and circulation both in PNG and throughout the Pacific. We assess how the drug has been depicted in the regional literature. While our primary focus is on PNG, our point in offering these broader perspectives…
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