Lamont Lindstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lamont Lindstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lamont |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindstrom |
| SIGNATURE | LINDSTROM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tulsa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Afterword: Habemus (Im)Material
Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)
Usufruct in the City: Tanna migrants in Port Vila
The Men Who Would Be King, Jon Tonks (Photographs) and Christopher Lord (Text) (2021)
Review of: The Men Who Would be King , Jon Tonks (Photographs) and Christopher Lord (Text) (2021) Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 200 pp., ISBN 978 1 91130 643 6 (hbk), £39.00
Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia 1965–2015, Rowan Light (2022)
Review of: ANZAC Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia 1965–2015 , Rowan Light (2022) Dunedin: Otago University Press, 262 pp., ISBN 978 1 99004 820 3 (pbk), NZ$50.00
Jean Guiart’s Contacts culturels
J. Guiart’s analysis of the John Frum Movement, published as Un siècle et demi de contacts culturels à Tanna, was the first in a series of ethnographic monographs that tackled post-war social movements in the Southwest Pacific. Following the Pacific War, anthropological attention had shifted from the description of functionally coherent communities to investigation of crisis, breakdown, and social transformation. Guiart likewise turned to history…
Jean Guiart: L’ethnographie comme marathon d’une vie
Grandeur et misère de Jean Guiart Jean Guiart s’est éteint le 4 août 2019, à l’âge de 94 ans, dans sa maison de Puna’auia, près de Papeete à Tahiti. Il repose non loin de là, au cimetière de La Pointe des Pêcheurs, auprès de son épouse Joséphine Pawé Wahnyamala Sootr, originaire de l’île de Lifou, partie avant lui en 2012. Dans les pas de son maître Maurice Leenhardt, premier président de la Société des Océanistes de 1946 à 1952, Guiart fut élu à…
Jean Guiart: Ethnography as a life marathon
Jean Guiart passed away aged 94 on 4 August 2019, at his home in Puna'auia, near Papeete in Tahiti. He lies not far from there, in Pointe des Pcheurs cemetery beside his wife Josphine Paw Wahnyamala Sootr, from the island of Lifou, who died before him in 2012. Following in the steps of his mentor Maurice Leenhardt, the first president of the Socit des Ocanistes from 1946Ocanistes from to 1952Ocanistes from , in 1955 Guiart was elected a board mem…
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2022 Conference Distinguished Lecture: Social Movement Sightseeing in Melanesia and Beyond
Social movements often attract tourists in their wake. The Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania convened a successful annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, less than a year after passionate protests that attracted national attention in the United States. Concerned city boosters, in response, invited tourists to enjoy Portland's vibrant diversity. That same year, Tulsa (Oklahoma) commemorated a 1921 race massacre with a new museum and even…
Notes on Sovereignty in Vanuatu
The colonial New Hebrides acquired independence and a new name, Vanuatu, in July 1980. The nascent state despite its expectations and exhortations of national sovereignty has dealt with challenges at several levels to its authority. I review a series of Vanuatu's sovereign competitors, both internal and external. These have included insurgent social movements, claimants to traditional ( kastom ) chiefly authority, foreign freebooters, former colo…
Tanna Times: Islanders in the World
In, I found my way to Tanna Island in what was then the New Hebrides, and Vanuatu today.My proposal to study di erential success with economic development as informed by religious a liation soon morphed into a series of better conceived and more fruitful projects.Then and now, the generous people of Samaria village put me up and put up with me.Over the years, I have come to know Samaria and its neighboring villages located within southeast Tanna'…
Panpipes and clubs: Early images of Tanna Islanders
William Hodges, James Cook’s artist on his second voyage, produced notably popular and influential drawings and paintings. These included several illustrations of Tanna Islanders (Vanuatu) that shaped European visions of the island from the 1770s through the 1830s, after which they were supplanted by Christian missionary depictions. Influenced by neoclassicist artistic convention, Hodges’s engravings, which subsequently were much copied, commonly…
Jean Guiart, 1925–2019
International audience
Solomon Islanders in World War II: An Indigenous Perspective
"Solomon Islanders in World War II: An Indigenous Perspective." The Journal of Pacific History, 53(2), pp. 216–217
Cargo Cults
Cargo cult—the term—appeared in 1945, at the end of the Pacific War. Anthropologists rapidly embraced the neologism to label the Melanesian social movements that had come to their attention during the colonial era (which began in the region in the second half of the nineteenth century) as well as post-war movements that captured ethnographic attention. A southwest Pacific example of messianic or millenarian movements once common throughout the co…
Afterword: In Search of Melanesian Order
These essays explore three contemporary forms of order in Papua New Guinea: improvised village courts, a nursing school curriculum including village practicums, and student boycotts and strikes. My comments assess these new sorts of order as reflected against earlier ethnographic accounts of Papua New Guinean societies as well as those elsewhere in Melanesia. This often has taken the region’s social groups and lineages, religions and belief syste…
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Urban Melanesia
des Ocanistes 99 (http://jso.revues
Respek et autres mots-clés du Port-Vila urbain
Dans leurs histoires de migration urbaine, les habitants de Tanna qui vivent dans les quartiers informels de Port-Vila emploient souvent un certain nombre de mots-clés pour décrire la vie en ville. J’utilise la méthode d’analyse culturelle dite par “mots-clés” afin d’aborder la perception insulaire de l’expérience urbaine. Respek (le respect) est un terme qui revient très fréquemment dans les entretiens que j’ai enregistrés. Ailleurs dans le mond…
L’urbanisation en Mélanésie
ils] n'avaient que rarement entendu les no-Guinens parler favorablement de leurs villes [et que ces derniers] se plaignaient du cot de la vie dans les villes, de la violence qui y rgnait et des dangers et difficults associs la vie au milieu de tant d'trangers (Levine et Levine, 1979 : 1, notre traduction)
Respek and Other Urban Vila Keywords
Dans leurs histoires de migration urbaine, les habitants de Tanna qui vivent dans les quartiers informels de Port-Vila emploient souvent un certain nombre de mots-clés pour décrire la vie en ville. J'utilise la méthode d'analyse culturelle dite par "mots-clés" afin d'aborder la perception insulaire de l'expérience urbaine. Respek (le respect) est un terme qui revient très fréquemment dans les entretiens que j'ai enregistrés. Ailleurs dans le mond…
The Pacific War: Aftermaths, remembrance and culture
John Dewey, in 1939, acknowledged that ‘All history is necessarily written from the standpoint of the present’ and that ‘material that had formerly been passed by, offers itself as data because the
Shooting Melanesians: Martin Johnson and Edward Salisbury in the Southwest Pacific
By the turn of the 20th century American photographers were venturing into the western Pacific. Two of the first cinematic teams to film in Melanesia were the Kansan explorers Martin and Osa Johnson and the yachtsman Edward A. Salisbury, who was joined by Merian Cooper (of later King Kong fame). Both drew on representational practice honed partly along the American Western Frontier. Both pairs took still and motion pictures in the New Hebrides an…
Cargo Cults
Secrecy, Anthropology of
Doctor, Lawyer, Wise Man, Priest: Big-Men and Knowledge in Melanesia
Big Man: A Short Terminological History
Urbane Tannese: Local Perspectives on Settlement Life in Port Vila
Significant rural-urban migration has characterized the postcolonial Melanesian states including Vanuatu. Over the past 30 years, most people who once lived in Samaria village (Tanna Island) have moved to squatter settlements that ring Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital town. Life history interviewing of migrants now living in Port Vila’s Blacksands and Ohlen neighbourhoods, and also of those remaining back on Tanna, document peoples’ participation in …
Tradition and Christianity: The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society
Burt studies the effects of the 19th century labour trade, colonial subjugation and the subsequent Christian conversion. He examines the anti-colonial Maasina Rule movement of the 1940s and finally illustrates the subsequent efforts of Kwara'ae leaders to regain their self-determination and to reaffirm the values of under Christianity.The Kwara'ae example of colonialism and Christianity is part of the broader experience of Melanesia and of other …
MelanesianKastomand Its Transformations
Editorial Board Note: In 2006, the Discipline Group of Anthropology and Sociology at The University of Western Australia hosted a symposium, 'Anthropology in the West: 1956-2006', to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the then Department of Anthropology by the late Ronald Berndt and his wife, Catherine, whose contributions to anthropology were a major focus of the symposium. Symposium participants also documented contributions made…
Introduction: Custom today
Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission In Papua New Guinea
Inside the Cult: Religious Innovation and Transmission In Papua New Guinea. Harvey Whitehouse. New York. Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv. 234 pp., figures, maps, tables, bibliography, glossary, index
L’urbanisation en Mélanésie
ils] n'avaient que rarement entendu les no-Guinens parler favorablement de leurs villes [et que ces derniers] se plaignaient du cot de la vie dans les villes, de la violence qui y rgnait et des dangers et difficults associs la vie au milieu de tant d'trangers (Levine et Levine, 1979 : 1, notre traduction)
Anthropology's New Cargo: Future Horizons
Lamont Lindstrom, Geoffrey M. White, Anthropology's New Cargo: Future Horizons, Ethnology, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands: Part II (Summer, 1995), pp. 201-209
Cargo cult culture: Toward a genealogy of Melanesian kastom
(1993). Cargo cult culture: Toward a genealogy of Melanesian kastom. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 6, Custom Today, pp. 495-513
Tanna Times: Islanders in the World
In, I found my way to Tanna Island in what was then the New Hebrides, and Vanuatu today.My proposal to study di erential success with economic development as informed by religious a liation soon morphed into a series of better conceived and more fruitful projects.Then and now, the generous people of Samaria village put me up and put up with me.Over the years, I have come to know Samaria and its neighboring villages located within southeast Tanna'…
Urban Melanesia
des Ocanistes 99 (http://jso.revues
Big Men as Ancestors: Inspiration and Copyrights on Tanna (Vanuatu)
Some Melanesian big men grow even bigger after they die, if political size is measured by reputation. Big man stature, in different parts of Melanesia, depends on an assortment of achieved or inherited resources and talents (Lindstrom 1981a). All big men, however, whatever the particulars of their authority, possess a personal reputation or name. As Oliver (1955:399) has noted of the status, high rank means having renown. This renown, in some cas…
Shooting Melanesians: Martin Johnson and Edward Salisbury in the Southwest Pacific
By the turn of the 20th century American photographers were venturing into the western Pacific. Two of the first cinematic teams to film in Melanesia were the Kansan explorers Martin and Osa Johnson and the yachtsman Edward A. Salisbury, who was joined by Merian Cooper (of later King Kong fame). Both drew on representational practice honed partly along the American Western Frontier. Both pairs took still and motion pictures in the New Hebrides an…
Kava Pirates in Vanuatu
Cultural property activists have worried about the bioprospecting, or even biopiracy, of kava (Piper methysticum), a plant exchanged and consumed for many Pacific social and ritual purposes. By the 1990s, kava and concoctions made from the plant's component kavalactones were increasingly popular products within global markets for recreational and medicinal drugs. Starting in 2002, however, a number of European countries among others banned kava i…
Mambu phone home
Mambu: A Melanesian millennium, by Kenelm Burridge. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1995 [reprinting of original 1960 edition with new preface]. 296pp., appendices, index. ISBN 0–691–00166–9 (paperback)
Culture, Society and Drugs: The Social Science Approach to Drug Use
Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond
Big men and the conversational marketplace of Tanna (Vanuatu)
Big men" in different parts of Melanesia achieve political status by various means. However, all big men possess a reputation-a "big name." Reputations grow or decline as people talk. Big men acquire renown by meeting the costs of the "conversational marketplace," to use Randall Collins' term. Some of these costs are systemic, given by the local mode of communication; others are discursive, related to cultural rules for producing authentic talk. …
Usufruct in the City: Tanna migrants in Port Vila
Cargo Cults
Cargo cult—the term—appeared in 1945, at the end of the Pacific War. Anthropologists rapidly embraced the neologism to label the Melanesian social movements that had come to their attention during the colonial era (which began in the region in the second half of the nineteenth century) as well as post-war movements that captured ethnographic attention. A southwest Pacific example of messianic or millenarian movements once common throughout the co…
Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a series of inspiring essays, noted scholars of the region examine these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis.The collection marks a turning point in the debate on the conceptualization of traditio…
Respek et autres mots-clés du Port-Vila urbain
Dans leurs histoires de migration urbaine, les habitants de Tanna qui vivent dans les quartiers informels de Port-Vila emploient souvent un certain nombre de mots-clés pour décrire la vie en ville. J’utilise la méthode d’analyse culturelle dite par “mots-clés” afin d’aborder la perception insulaire de l’expérience urbaine. Respek (le respect) est un terme qui revient très fréquemment dans les entretiens que j’ai enregistrés. Ailleurs dans le mond…
Respek and Other Urban Vila Keywords
Dans leurs histoires de migration urbaine, les habitants de Tanna qui vivent dans les quartiers informels de Port-Vila emploient souvent un certain nombre de mots-clés pour décrire la vie en ville. J'utilise la méthode d'analyse culturelle dite par "mots-clés" afin d'aborder la perception insulaire de l'expérience urbaine. Respek (le respect) est un terme qui revient très fréquemment dans les entretiens que j'ai enregistrés. Ailleurs dans le mond…
Cargo Cult Horror
Anthropological analyses of cargo cults offer certain plots alongside ethnographic detail. Many such accounts assume one or the other of three common storylines. Cargo cults have been plotted as bildungsroman, as horror story, and as carnival. Bildungsroman cargo narratives suggest that cargo is good but culting is bad. Carnivalesque accounts reverse this polarity to celebrate culting while disparaging the dangers of cargo. The horror storyline l…
Big Man: A Short Terminological History
Studies in Pacific Languages and Cultures: In Honour of Bruce Biggs . Jim Hollyman and Andrew Pawley , eds
Doctor, Lawyer, Wise Man, Priest: Big-Men and Knowledge in Melanesia
Big men and the conversational marketplace of Tanna (Vanuatu)
Big men" in different parts of Melanesia achieve political status by various means. However, all big men possess a reputation-a "big name." Reputations grow or decline as people talk. Big men acquire renown by meeting the costs of the "conversational marketplace," to use Randall Collins' term. Some of these costs are systemic, given by the local mode of communication; others are discursive, related to cultural rules for producing authentic talk. …
The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II
Charisma and the production of messages on Tanna (Vanuatu)
This paper draws upon Foucault's analysis of ‘orders of discourse’ to explore why ‘charisma’—or legitimate authority based upon the production of valuable messages—is rarely institutionalized in Melanesia. A discursive emphasis on inspiration, devaluation of authorial creativity, and other conditions ensure that individual prophets lose control of their messages and their authoritative sources. As such, Melanesian charisma is depersonalized and d…
Knowledge and power in a South Pacific society
Drawing on the extensive photographs, notes, diaries, reports, recorded data, and manuals he collected during his five years at the Zeppelin Company in Germany, Harold G. Dick tells the story of the two great passenger Zeppelins. --from vendor description.
Big Men as Ancestors: Inspiration and Copyrights on Tanna (Vanuatu)
Some Melanesian big men grow even bigger after they die, if political size is measured by reputation. Big man stature, in different parts of Melanesia, depends on an assortment of achieved or inherited resources and talents (Lindstrom 1981a). All big men, however, whatever the particulars of their authority, possess a personal reputation or name. As Oliver (1955:399) has noted of the status, high rank means having renown. This renown, in some cas…
Culture, Kin, and Cognition in Oceania: Essays in Honor of Ward H. Goodenough . Mac Marshall and John L. Caughey
The Pacific Theatre: Island Representations of World War II
Contributions from anthropologists participating in a symposium of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, New Harmony, Indiana, 1986, examine the experiences of Pacific Islanders in the war and their remembrances of it as observers, laborers, on patrol, under bombardment. The studies de
Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II
I. Introduction -- War stories / Lamont Lindstrom and Geoffrey M. White -- II. Island selves and wartime others -- Histories of contact, narratives of the self : Wartime encounters in Santa Isabel / Geoffrey M. White -- The source of the force in Marshallese cosmology / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Echoes of massacre : Recollections of World War II on Sapwuahfik (Ngatik Atoll) / Lin Poyer -- Time of famine, time of transformation : Hell in the Pa…
The Pacific Theatre: Islanders' Representations of World War II
This introduction to a special issue of Man, "The Pacific Theatre: Islanders' Representations of World War II," explores how Pacific Islanders experienced and interpreted the war, challenging conventional Eurocentric narratives. The authors argue that the war was not simply a foreign imposition but a transformative event integrated into existing cultural frameworks and social structures. The issue aims to recover indigenous voices and perspective…
Nguna Voices: Text and Culture from Central Vanuatu. Ellen E. Facey
Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society
A Rape of Justice: MacArthur and the New Guinea Hangings
Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Postmodernism, Reason and Religion. Ernest Gellner
Cargo cult culture: Toward a genealogy of Melanesian kastom
(1993). Cargo cult culture: Toward a genealogy of Melanesian kastom. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 6, Custom Today, pp. 495-513
Introduction: Custom today
The Prevalence of Deceit. F. G. Bailey
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire From Melanesia and Beyond
Cargoism and Occidentalism
Paul Nizan in Aden, Arabie, his travelogue of disillusionment, wrote gloomily that ’The Orient reproduces the Occident and is a commentary on it’ (1987: ll0). Although Nizan had in mind wretched attempts of European colons to replicate life back home, his disappointment in the similarities between Orient and Occident says something about the gravity of expectation that surrounds this boundary. Nizan travelled to Arabie seeking difference but he d…
Anthropology's New Cargo: Future Horizons
Lamont Lindstrom, Geoffrey M. White, Anthropology's New Cargo: Future Horizons, Ethnology, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue on Politics of Culture in the Pacific Islands: Part II (Summer, 1995), pp. 201-209
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