Andrew Lattas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3589334 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Lattas |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Lattas |
| FIRMA | LATTAS A |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Re‐analysing the Baining
This article criticises primitivist caricatures of the Baining in Melanesia as a society that lacks exegesis, symbolic logics, religion, structures of power and control, and even an interest in play. The mytho‐poetics of gender and procreation in Mali Baining society are documented by focusing on how art and sexuality are traced onto each other. The formative power of painting, barkcloth, dancing masks, netbags and music are merged with the forma…
The Underground Life of Capitalism
Foucault, Phenomenology and Modernity in Melanesia
Portrait
Consultancy, Neo‐Liberal Conservatism and the Politics of Anti‐Politics
What a lot of nonsense about the ANU and Australian universities in general (sites of neoliberal thought indeed?!) I find it odd that people who have willingly spent their professional lives and made careers in Australian universities suddenly want to bite the hand that is (still) feeding them! (Finlayson, J. 14 December 2010, AASNet email post)
Securing Modernity
Contemporary public discourses, which depict Melanesian nation states as weak or as having failed, serve to legitimize the imposition of external, neo‐paternal, regulatory structures on former colonies. Such discourses problematise the numerous local experiments that combine custom, state structures and religion so as to create modern Melanesian ways of governing. Starting with the colonial policy of indirect rule, Melanesia has had a long histor…
Logging, Violence and Pleasure
The postcolonial world of Melanesia is made up of diverse experiments, which combine modern and customary technologies of power into new hybrid assemblages. In the 1990s, there occurred a proliferation of landowner companies in rural New Britain. This happened in a context of neoliberalism where the state divested itself of many functions and services by allocating these to a supposedly more efficient private sector. In the Kaliai area, this new …
Mimetic rivalry and similitude
Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
Crook, Tony. Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: Exchanging Skin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Tony Crook has written an interesting and challenging b
‘They Always Seem to be Angry’
Contemporary ethnic rivalries often deny participation in racism and instead use the language of nationalism to formulate an etiquette of civility as defining national belonging. In contemporary Australia, world events such as the Bali Bombing, the 9/11 attacks and the Global War on Terror have empowered a civilisational logic, which often becomes localised to provide the moral terms for culturally ranking who has the capacity to participate in t…
Cargo Cults and the Politics of Alterity
This review article is a critical evaluation of recent ethnographic contributions and theoretical debates concerning cargo cults. It examines how Foucault's genealogical and discursive methodologies can be used in a way that undercuts their valuable insights. The recent self‐reflexive turn, where anthropology focuses on the moral politics of its own discourses, can lead to a silencing of the moral political discourses of others. Moreover self‐ref…
Technologies of Visibility
This paper explores how Melanesian villagers have harnessed modern, technological ways of seeing. It begins by analysing the politics and narrative structures of dreams and popular stories about secret photos concerning the dead. These are stories about losing control and regaining hidden, alternative representations of Melanesians. I then analyse how millenarian followers have experimented with ‘constructing’ their own versions of cameras, telev…
The utopian promise of government
Today academic debate and public discourse about the Pacific often focuses on the collapse of government - on failed nation-states. Yet ever since Self-Government and Independence, Melanesians have experimented with developing their own alternative forms of local government, which have often embraced but also side-tracked official governmental schemes, structures, and practices. Using the Pomio Kivung movement in East New Britain, this article ex…
Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Reviewed by: Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House Andrew Lattas Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House, by Gilbert Herdt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. ISBN cloth, 0-472-09761-x; paper, 0-472-06761-3; xvii + 269 pages, map, photograph, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$64.95; paper, US$26.95. In this thoughtful book, Gilbert Herdt proposes a gen…
Capitalizing on Complicity
Using the cargo cult movement of Dakoa on Bali Island (West New Britain),this article explores the relationship between history and the other forms of human time articulated in cult practices, beliefs, and myths of origins. This relationship often entails the collapsing of historical time into biographical time. It involves Dakoa's cult taking up Western notions of kingship and the Christian figures of God, Jesus, and Moses-all of whom are merged…
Identity and Being
The Underground Life of Capitalism
Emplaced Myth
Telephones, Cameras and Technology in West New Britain Cargo Cults
In this paper, I explore the creative practices of cargo cult followers in the Kaliai bush of West New Britain. I focus on how rural villagers reworked their experiences of meaning and sociality through their appropriations of western technology. In particular, bush Kaliai cult followers frequently used telephones and cameras in idiosyncratic ways that mapped out anew and redisclosed the spaces occupied by a racialised human existence. Through th…
Neither cargo nor cult
Neither cargo nor cult: Ritual politics and the colonial imagination in Fiji, by Martha Kaplan. Duke University Press, Durham NC, 1995. ISBN 0–8223–1593–9
Humanitarianism and Australian Nationalism in Colonial Papua
This paper is about Australian nationalism in Papua at the beginning of the century. It analyses the role of science and humanitarianism in sustaining the colonial project and the white man's identity. Colonialism was formulated as philanthropy operating on a global scale, where the redemption and salvation of humanity involved the ‘higher cultures’ having a ‘sacred trust’ to educate and morally uplift the natives. This duty to pacify and civilis…
Introduction
Memory, Forgetting and the New Tribes Mission in West New Britain
In this paper, I use ethnography from the Kaliai area to explore the social and political relationships which underpin memory and forgetting. I analyse the relationships of hegemony and resistance which are inscribed and articulated in a context of missionising where villagers and missionaries enter into an uneasy alliance to control what should be remembered so that people emerge as particular kinds of subjects. In exploring the social and polit…
Cargo Cult
The politics of suffering and the politics of anthropology
This essay begins by analysing the ideological structure of Peter Sutton's recent book The Politics of Suffering and its use of anthropology to support the federal government's Intervention into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.' Later, the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben is drawn upon to offer an alternative anthropological analysis of the Intervention as part of the incorporation of 'culture' into neoliberal forms of…
Sorcery and Colonialism
Ce sont les structures narratives qui rendent l'experience communicable, ce qui ne signifie pas, bien sur, qu'elle n'existe pas en dehors de la mediation textuelle. Cet article montre que c'est a travers des textes narratifs que la maladie et la mort s'incorporent a une certaine vision de l'existence. On explore en particulier les realites destructrices que la sorcellerie revele aux Kaliai de la foret en Nouvelle Bretagne occidentale. En decrivan…
The utopian promise of government
Today academic debate and public discourse about the Pacific often focuses on the collapse of government - on failed nation-states. Yet ever since Self-Government and Independence, Melanesians have experimented with developing their own alternative forms of local government, which have often embraced but also side-tracked official governmental schemes, structures, and practices. Using the Pomio Kivung movement in East New Britain, this article ex…
Primitivism, nationalism and individualism in Australian popular culture
(1992). Primitivism, nationalism and individualism in Australian popular culture. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, pp. 45-58
Trickery and Sacrifice
Andrew Lattas, Trickery and Sacrifice: Tambarans and the Appropriation of Female Reproductive Powers in Male Initiation Ceremonies in West New Britain, Man, New Series, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Sep., 1989), pp. 451-469
Telephones, Cameras and Technology in West New Britain Cargo Cults
In this paper, I explore the creative practices of cargo cult followers in the Kaliai bush of West New Britain. I focus on how rural villagers reworked their experiences of meaning and sociality through their appropriations of western technology. In particular, bush Kaliai cult followers frequently used telephones and cameras in idiosyncratic ways that mapped out anew and redisclosed the spaces occupied by a racialised human existence. Through th…
Capitalizing on Complicity
Using the cargo cult movement of Dakoa on Bali Island (West New Britain),this article explores the relationship between history and the other forms of human time articulated in cult practices, beliefs, and myths of origins. This relationship often entails the collapsing of historical time into biographical time. It involves Dakoa's cult taking up Western notions of kingship and the Christian figures of God, Jesus, and Moses-all of whom are merged…
Sexuality and Cargo Cults
Poetics of Space and Sexual Economies of Power
Cargo Cult
Portrait
Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
Crook, Tony. Anthropological Knowledge, Secrecy and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: Exchanging Skin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Tony Crook has written an interesting and challenging b
Neither cargo nor cult
Neither cargo nor cult: Ritual politics and the colonial imagination in Fiji, by Martha Kaplan. Duke University Press, Durham NC, 1995. ISBN 0–8223–1593–9
Trickery and Sacrifice
Andrew Lattas, Trickery and Sacrifice: Tambarans and the Appropriation of Female Reproductive Powers in Male Initiation Ceremonies in West New Britain, Man, New Series, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Sep., 1989), pp. 451-469
Poetics of Space and Sexual Economies of Power
Nationalism, Aesthetic Redemption and Aboriginality
In this paper I analyse some contemporary cultural constructions of the Australian national psyche and how these involve constructions of the otherness of Aboriginality and of modernity. In particular, I am interested in analysing how the spiritualised otherness of Aboriginality is produced and employed within nationalist discourses which are concerned with establishing the cultural integrity and authenticity of Australian culture. Aborigines hav…
Sexuality and Cargo Cults
Skin, personhood and redemption
This paper is about the sorts of spaces and identities created by cargo cult narratives. It explores those placements of identity which emerge in the colonial context, out of the interface of self and Other, where each self can only be a self through determining its relationship to the space occupied by the Other. This is a concern with the topography of colonialism, with that multiplicity of regions and sites which black and white are made to oc…
Wiping the Blood Off Aboriginality
I had to meet the white man's eyes. An unfamiliar weight burdened me. In the white world the man of colour encounters difficulties in the development of his bodily schemes ... I was battered down by tom‐toms, cannibalism, intellectual deficiency, fetishism, racial defects ... I took myself off far from my own presence ... What else could it be for me but an amputation, an excision, a haemorrhage that splattered my whole body with black blood? (Fa…
Hysteria, anthropological disclosure and the concept of the unconscious
Primitivism, nationalism and individualism in Australian popular culture
(1992). Primitivism, nationalism and individualism in Australian popular culture. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, pp. 45-58
The Punishment Of Masks
L'A. etudie en quoi le colonialisme a affecte l'image que les Bush Kaliai de l'ouest de la Nouvelle-Bretagne ont de leur propre culture. Si les masques avaient une fonction importante dans le maintien des relations hierarchiques homme-femme, ils representent desormais une opposition entre le monde des images des Kaliai soumis et le monde reel des colonisateurs blancs. L'interiorisation de telles relations de pouvoir a conduit a produire une image…
Essentialism, Memory and Resistance
This paper is about how the discourses of white intellectuals operating in Aboriginal Studies create a knowledgeable gaze which seeks to police the cultural practices through which Aborigines produce themselves. Aborigines have become the focus of a gaze which analyses, questions, and problematises their resistances and even their identities. Determining the boundaries of Aboriginal authenticity has become the preoccupation of some European intel…
Sorcery and Colonialism
Ce sont les structures narratives qui rendent l'experience communicable, ce qui ne signifie pas, bien sur, qu'elle n'existe pas en dehors de la mediation textuelle. Cet article montre que c'est a travers des textes narratifs que la maladie et la mort s'incorporent a une certaine vision de l'existence. On explore en particulier les realites destructrices que la sorcellerie revele aux Kaliai de la foret en Nouvelle Bretagne occidentale. En decrivan…
Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society. Lamont LINDSTROM
Cargo Cult
Humanitarianism and Australian Nationalism in Colonial Papua
This paper is about Australian nationalism in Papua at the beginning of the century. It analyses the role of science and humanitarianism in sustaining the colonial project and the white man's identity. Colonialism was formulated as philanthropy operating on a global scale, where the redemption and salvation of humanity involved the ‘higher cultures’ having a ‘sacred trust’ to educate and morally uplift the natives. This duty to pacify and civilis…
Introduction
Memory, Forgetting and the New Tribes Mission in West New Britain
In this paper, I use ethnography from the Kaliai area to explore the social and political relationships which underpin memory and forgetting. I analyse the relationships of hegemony and resistance which are inscribed and articulated in a context of missionising where villagers and missionaries enter into an uneasy alliance to control what should be remembered so that people emerge as particular kinds of subjects. In exploring the social and polit…
Neither cargo nor cult
Neither cargo nor cult: Ritual politics and the colonial imagination in Fiji, by Martha Kaplan. Duke University Press, Durham NC, 1995. ISBN 0–8223–1593–9
The Underground Life of Capitalism
Emplaced Myth
Telephones, Cameras and Technology in West New Britain Cargo Cults
In this paper, I explore the creative practices of cargo cult followers in the Kaliai bush of West New Britain. I focus on how rural villagers reworked their experiences of meaning and sociality through their appropriations of western technology. In particular, bush Kaliai cult followers frequently used telephones and cameras in idiosyncratic ways that mapped out anew and redisclosed the spaces occupied by a racialised human existence. Through th…
Identity and Being
Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Reviewed by: Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House Andrew Lattas Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House, by Gilbert Herdt. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. ISBN cloth, 0-472-09761-x; paper, 0-472-06761-3; xvii + 269 pages, map, photograph, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$64.95; paper, US$26.95. In this thoughtful book, Gilbert Herdt proposes a gen…
Capitalizing on Complicity
Using the cargo cult movement of Dakoa on Bali Island (West New Britain),this article explores the relationship between history and the other forms of human time articulated in cult practices, beliefs, and myths of origins. This relationship often entails the collapsing of historical time into biographical time. It involves Dakoa's cult taking up Western notions of kingship and the Christian figures of God, Jesus, and Moses-all of whom are merged…
Technologies of Visibility
This paper explores how Melanesian villagers have harnessed modern, technological ways of seeing. It begins by analysing the politics and narrative structures of dreams and popular stories about secret photos concerning the dead. These are stories about losing control and regaining hidden, alternative representations of Melanesians. I then analyse how millenarian followers have experimented with ‘constructing’ their own versions of cameras, telev…
The utopian promise of government
Today academic debate and public discourse about the Pacific often focuses on the collapse of government - on failed nation-states. Yet ever since Self-Government and Independence, Melanesians have experimented with developing their own alternative forms of local government, which have often embraced but also side-tracked official governmental schemes, structures, and practices. Using the Pomio Kivung movement in East New Britain, this article ex…
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