Lisette Josephides

Biographic Data

ID3580960
NAMELisette Josephides
GIVEN NAMESLisette
FAMILY NAMEJosephides
SIGNATUREJOSEPHIDES L
AFFILIATIONSQueen's University Belfast
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS157
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX8

  • Pacific Futures: Projects, Politics and Interests

    Annelin Eriksen, Courtney Handman et al.BOOKPacific futures2022

    The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as ‘custom’, has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse—outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures …

  • Being held accountable: Why Attributing Responsibility Matters

    Open AccessLisette JosephidesARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2022Cited by: 7References: 13

    Debates over reconciliation, atonement, forgiveness, and forgetting involve political and personal elements, with substantial investments and commitments. I contrast two perspectives: one stresses unconditional forgiveness independent of atonement; the other reflects on the importance of moral responsibility for the formation of the person. Being held accountable, for Ricoeur, matters for the development of the self. For Derrida, forgiveness is a…

  • Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements

    Lisette JosephidesBOOKKnowledge and Ethics in…2020

  • Finding and Mining the Talk: Negotiating Knowledge and Knowledge Transfer in the Field

    Lisette JosephidesCHAPTERInterview2020

    This chapter reflects on how anthropologists collect, record and analyse field data in the process of creating academic knowledge. First, what are ethnographic techniques and practices of knowledge-transaction intended to elicit? Echoing Williams, the author would answer that they seek ‘some reflective social knowledge, including history’, that commands assent ((1985) 2006: 199)— what ethnographers might call baseline ethnographic data. Second, h…

  • Dialogue

    Lisette Josephides, N Rapport et al.CHAPTERKnowledge and Ethics in…2020

    LJ: I am grateful to Nigel Rapport who first mooted the idea of a dialogue as a fitting conclusion to this volume. Before the dialogue got underway, Marilyn Strathern suggested that we table a 'position' statement on knowledge exchange as a medium of (scholarly) writing. Not having thought of this question in explicit terms before, I quickly put together the 'position' below. I hasten to add that it is mine alone, serving as a heuristic that star…

  • Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements

    Lisette JosephidesBOOKKnowledge and Ethics in…2015

    This new collection of essays is inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and draws together the work of internationally recognized scholars, including Strathern herself, to examine a range of methodologies and approaches to the anthropology of knowledge. The book looks at the production of knowledge through a variety of different themes, all centered around the idea of the ethnographers' obligations and requirement…

  • We the Cosmopolitans

    Lisette Josephides, Alexandra HallBOOKWe the Cosmopolitans2014

    The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-h…

  • Straight talk, hidden talk and modernity: Shifts in discourse strategy in Highland New Guinea

    Lisette JosephidesCHAPTERAnthropology of Indirect…2010

  • Representing the anthropologist’s predicament

    Lisette JosephidesCHAPTERAfter Writing Culture2010

  • Cosmopolitanism as the existential condition of humanity: Cosmopolitanism as the Existential Condition of Humanity

    Open AccessLisette JosephidesARTICLESocial Anthropology2010

    Cosmopolitanism as the existential condition of humanity refers to the view that human beings are both transcendent and social. This is argued through another pair of concepts, commonality and difference. If humans are moral, it is because they recognise each other as sharing a basic ontology. But this morality is expressed in the sort of regard that separates ‘me’ from ‘you’. Two aspects of difference are elaborated: foreignness feared as alien …

  • The Ethics of Apology: A Set of Commentaries

    Open AccessN Mookherjee, N Rapport et al.ARTICLECritique of Anthropology2009Cited by: 10References: 1

    ■ On 13 February 2008, the Australian government apologized to the 'stolen generations': those children of Aboriginal descent who were removed from their parents (usually their Aboriginal mothers) to be raised in white foster-homes and institutions administered by government and Christian churches - a practice that lasted from before the First World War to the early 1970s. This apology was significant, in the words of Rudd, for the 'healing' of t…

  • Empire of the senses: The sensual culture reader - Edited by David Howes

    Open AccessLisette JosephidesARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2008Cited by: 1

  • Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

    Lisette JosephidesREVIEWAfrica2001

    Michael Lambek and Andrew Strathern (eds), Bodies and Persons: comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 311 pp., £45.00, ISBN 521 62194 1 (hard covers), £15.00, ISBN 0 521 62737 0 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2

  • Disengagement and Desire: The Tactics of Everyday Life

    Open AccessLisette JosephidesARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1999Cited by: 4References: 18

    In this article, my ethnographic interest in Kewa women's quest for different lifestyles merges with my theoretical interests in the interactional basis of everyday life to produce an analysis that places the impolite person at the center of daily tactics that go beyond making do. Drawing on such fields as linguistic analysis, politeness theory, moral theory, and theories of practice, I develop a polemological account of a cultural change that is…

  • Fictions of Feminist Ethnography

    Lisette Josephides, Mamala VisweswaranARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1997Cited by: 9

  • Questions of Consciousness

    Lisette Josephides, Anthony P Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1997Cited by: 4

  • To Sing with Pigs Is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea. Jane C. Goodale

    Open AccessLisette JosephidesARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1996

  • Speaking to Power: Gender and Politics in the Western Pacific. Lynn B. Wilson

    Open AccessLisette JosephidesARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1996

  • Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology. Gillian Gillison

    Lisette JosephidesARTICLEHistory of Religions1996

  • Gendered Violence in a Changing Society: The Case of Urban Papua New Guinea

    Lisette JosephidesARTICLEJournal de la Société des…1994Cited by: 10

    Josephides Lisette. Gendered Violence in a Changing Society : The Case of Urban Papua New Guinea. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 99, 1994-2. pp. 187-196

  • Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia

    Lisette JosephidesREVIEWMan1992Cited by: 1

  • Metaphors, Metathemes, and the Construction of Sociality: A Critique of the New Melanesian Ethnography

    Lisette JosephidesARTICLEMan1991Cited by: 51References: 3

  • Feminism and Anthropology

    Lisette JosephidesREVIEWMan1989

  • The Production of Inequality: Gender and Exchange Among the Kewa

    Alfred Gell, Lisette JosephidesARTICLEMan1989Cited by: 8

  • Cultural Alternatives and a Feminist Anthropology: An Analysis of Culturally Constructed Gender Interests in Papua New Guinea

    Lisette Josephides, Frederick Errington et al.ARTICLEMan1989Cited by: 8

    The Chambri of Papua New Guinea are well known as being the 'Tchambuli' of Margaret Mead's influential work, Sex and Temperament, in which she described them as a people among whom, in contrast to Western society, women dominated over men. In this book, however, Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz re-analyse Mead's data, and present original material of their own, to reveal that Mead misinterpreted the Chambri situation, and that in fact Cham…