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Malangan

Objects, Sacrifice and the Production of Memory

Bibliographic Data

ID2963288
AuthorsSusanne Küchler (0000-0002-8114-3593, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume15
Issue4
Pages625-637
Publication date1988-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1988.15.4.02a00020
OpenAlexW2148123049
LanguageEN
Citations received64
References cited14

Certain museum collections are not the result of "salvage anthropology" alone, but of the operation of "gift to god systems," as sale became an alternative means of removing gifts from circulation. Objects that are made to be dismantled in a process of sacrifice confound time not through permanence, but through renewal, and create time not as history, but as memory. The production of memory, and the difference it creates in society and culture, is discussed with the example of Malangan art in northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Ethnology · New guinea · Production (economics · Sacrifice · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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Unique citing works64
Citations per year1,68
Citation span1988 - 2026 (39)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 63
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