A road to freedom; Mee articulations and the Trans-Papua Highway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2881135 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Kirksey (0000-0001-6067-1525, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), S Eben Kirksey (1. [email protected]), Kiki Bilsen, Kiki van Bilsen |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 158 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 837-854 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003769 |
| OpenAlex | W587526085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
A road to freedomMee articulations and the Trans-Papua Highway '[M]etanarratives of destruction and invention need to be held in a kind of unresolved ethnographic tension' (Clifford 1997:187).! Pre-colonial routesMany anthropologists, linguists, and travel writers have emphasized the isolation of Papuans in general and the Mee in particular. 2 Papua is the Indonesian-occupied half of the island of New Guinea that was officially known as Irian Jaya before its name was changed in October 2001.Leopold Pospisil was the first anthropologist to conduct field research among the Mee in the 1950s.While eating lunch with Kirksey at the 98th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Chicago, he described how he had unsuccessfully attempted to contact the Oge Bage Mee.The word Mee, which means 'people' in several mutually unintelligible Papuan languages, is a general ethnic grouping consisting of several sub-tribes, or bage, who live in the Bird's Neck region of Papua.These groups are also 1 This article is dedicated to Kansus Uweia, who passed away before his aspiration of freedom for his people was realized.Kirksey's field research
Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Indonesian · Linguistics · New guinea · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy
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