Landscape, Myth and Time

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2390877
AutoresEric Hirsch (0000-0003-0365-9372, Brunel University, UK)
Año2006
Volumen11
Número1-2
Páginas151-165
Fecha de publicación2006-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183506063018
OpenAlexW2080498242
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas9

This article demonstrates the inherent relations between landscape, myth and time. Here I follow the lead of anthropologists such as Lévi-Strauss and Wagner and historians like Simon Schama. In particular, I highlight that what goes on 'inside' of myths is systematically connected to what occurs 'outside': how the intimate features of landscape form a kind of prism through which wider influences might be understood. The article considers two tidibe narratives from the Fuyuge people of highland Papua. These mythic narratives emerged at different moments in the colonial and postcolonial state project. Each narrative portrays features of landscape that simultaneously disclose a unique presence of time. This 'time' is different from the progress-orientated 'time' of government or missionaries. And yet, as I show, both are connected: through the ways government and missionaries transformed the Fuyuge people and their landscape, and how the Fuyuge landscape and tidibe came to reveal these 'outside' influences

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