Martha Macintyre
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Macintyre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Macintyre |
| SIGNATURE | MACINTYRE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Frederick K. Errington (1941–2021)
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific
As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of…
Gender and Mining
This entry explores issues of gender in the context of large‐scale and artisanal mining in developing countries. Mining is often perceived to be a masculine occupation because men predominate in the work of extraction. Women, however, play vital roles in processing ores and precious stones as well as providing services to working men. Anthropological studies of gender and mining are undertaken from two main perspectives: (1) feminist analysis of …
Encountering Anthropology: An Interview with Martha Macintyre
Harvests, Feasts and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea, by Ryan Schram
In the past two decades anthropologists have begun to acknowledge the ways that Christianity, its tenets and practices have been major forces for change across the Pacific. In many places in Papua
Gender and Fieldwork
Anthropological study involving fieldwork and participant observation is profoundly affected by the gender of the researcher. Conformity or sensitivity to ideals of gender in the host community is crucial to acceptance and incorporation. This was initially not recognized, but since the mid‐twentieth century, when feminism and postcolonialism gained theoretical authority in anthropology, the gender of the researcher has been a subject of reflectio…
Afterword Places, migration and sustainability: Anthropological reflections on mining and movement
Based on ethnographic research around the Misima and Lihir gold mines in Papua New Guinea, this Afterword provides anthropological reflections on the main themes of the articles in this issue. Endorsing the call for interdisciplinary research on mining, I present instantiations of the varying meanings of place, migration and sustainability. I describe variations in perceptions of place between different sites and these are also subject to change …
Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others
Contents: Introduction: Where life is in the pits (and elsewhere) and gendered, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha Macintyre. Reconstructing Gendered Histories of Mines: Women miners: here and there, now and then, Gill Burke Japanese coal mining: women discovered, Sachiko Sone Race, gender and the tin-mining industry in Malaya, 1900-1950, Amarjit Kaur Patriarchy, colonialism and capitalism: unearthing the history of Adivasi women miners of Chotanagpu…
Transformations of Gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners
Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women's and girls
C hristian Marriage, Money Scams, and M elanesian Social Imaginaries
In this paper, we draw on fieldwork with middle‐class investors in ‘fast money schemes’ ( P onzi scams) to consider how N eo‐ P entecostal C hristianity may be mediating social and economic change in P apua N ew G uinea, particularly in relation to gender equality. Ideas of companionate marriage and the cultivation of an affective self imply masculinities that are more sensitive and less domineering. As these images of fulfilled modernity flow ou…
Problems with ethics committees
Science, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Anthropology: Managing the Impacts of Mining in Papua New Guinea
Science, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Anthropology:Managing the Impacts of Mining in Papua New Guinea Martha Macintyre (bio) and Simon Foale (bio) A little knowledge is apt to puff up, and make men giddy, but a greater share of it will set them right, and bring them to low and humble thoughts of themselves -A. B., The Mystery of Phanaticism, 1698 More than a decade of monitoring the social impacts of mining required numerous collaborativ…
Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
1. Introduction: Gender Politics and the Reimagining of Human Rights in the Asia Pacific Maila Stivens 2. Sexual Violence, Silence, and Human Rights Discourse: The Emergence of the Military Prostitution Issue Vera Mackie 3. The State and The Women's Movement: Instabilities in the Discourse of 'Rights' in India Kalpana Ram 4. Dead Daughters, Dissident Sons, And Human Rights in China Antonia Finnane 5. The HUman Rights of Gendered Citizens: Notes f…
Savage Memory: A Documentary about a Legendary Anthropologist and the Shadows of Our Ancestors
Tales from Facebook
Confronting Violence against Women
Comment on Maclean’s ‘Globalization and bridewealth rhetoric’
Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935 (review)
Reviewed by: Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935 Martha Macintyre Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935. By Brenda Johnson Clay. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Anthropology's relationship with colonialism has preoccupied many in the discipline for several decades. The recognition that the subjects of research, those whom anthropology defined as its…
Police and Thieves, Gunmen and Drunks: Problems with Men and Problems with Society in Papua New Guinea
The image of the ‘man with a gun’ is pervasive in Papua New Guinea and connotes not only the state's capacity to use force, but that of men to resist and subvert state control. At the same time, the association of beer and marijuana with both modernity and violent masculine behaviours provides the context, the justification and the forms of homosocial activities involving violence. In this paper, I explore the ambiguities surrounding guns as inst…
Responding to Gender Violence in Papua New Guinea
Land and Marine Tenure, Ownership, and New Forms of Entitlement on Lihir: Changing Notions of Property in the Context of a Goldmining Project
We describe and analyze changes in ideas of land and marine tenure and resource rights in the Lihir group of islands in Papua New Guinea as they have developed over a ten-year period. The paper examines some issues that have become contentious since goldmining mine began in the 1980s, analyzing the underlying principles of tenure and changing ideas of entitlement that inform them. Beginning with a description of the basic representation of tenure…
Informed Consent and Mining Projects: A View from Papua New Guinea
Free, prior and informed consent is increasingly perceived as a means of ensuring that people's human fights are respected and their interests protected. This paper explores issues arising in the context of gaining informed consent about mining projects from people who are citizens of a developing nation. Assumptions about rights, processes of negotiation, scientific knowledge and environmental degradation are often alien to the local people invo…
Green Fantasies: Photographic representations of biodiversity and ecotourism in the Western Pacific
Photography is a powerful tool for persuading donors to support conservation programs in the Pacific, but it frequently distorts the ecological concepts from which their legitimacy is derived. In this paper we argue that the images of charismatic wild life used to portray the Pacific as a“pristine wilderness” of rainforest and reef, betray the hegemonic ideology underpinning both biodiversity conservation and its related ecotourism development pr…
Taking Care of Culture: Consultancy, Anthropology, and Gender Issues
Warfare and the changing context of ‘Kune’ on Tubetube
(1983). Warfare and the changing context of ‘Kune’ on Tubetube. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 18, The History and Anthropology of the Massim, pp. 11-34
Transformations of Gender in Melanesia
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners
Gender Violence & Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu
The postcolonial states of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu operate today in a global arena in which human rights are widely accepted. As ratifiers of UN treaties such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, these Pacific Island countries have committed to promoting women's and girls
Dynamic and Flexible Aspects of Land and Marine Tenure at West Nggela: Implications for Marine Resource Management
At West Nggela, access to high value marine invertebrate stocks is controlled by consanguineal corporate groups holding primary rights (which include rights of exclusion) over reefs bearing these stocks. Disputes over primary rights appear to result in a breakdown in management practices, resulting in overfishing and severe depletion of stocks. An understanding of the common causes of disputes is therefore of considerable importance to marine res…
Police and Thieves, Gunmen and Drunks: Problems with Men and Problems with Society in Papua New Guinea
The image of the ‘man with a gun’ is pervasive in Papua New Guinea and connotes not only the state's capacity to use force, but that of men to resist and subvert state control. At the same time, the association of beer and marijuana with both modernity and violent masculine behaviours provides the context, the justification and the forms of homosocial activities involving violence. In this paper, I explore the ambiguities surrounding guns as inst…
The problem of the semi-alienable pig
Politicized Ecology: Local Responses to Mining in Papua New Guinea
Our paper draws on research in two sites where large goldmining projects are located — Misima and Lihir islands in Papua New Guinea. We examine the socio‐economic context in which criticisms of environmental degradation arise. We discuss the social and political meanings embedded in local demands for compensation for environmental damage, drawing attention to the disparities between local Melanesian conceptions of the environment and global, West…
Too many chiefs? Leadership in the Massim in the colonial ERA
Informed Consent and Mining Projects: A View from Papua New Guinea
Free, prior and informed consent is increasingly perceived as a means of ensuring that people's human fights are respected and their interests protected. This paper explores issues arising in the context of gaining informed consent about mining projects from people who are citizens of a developing nation. Assumptions about rights, processes of negotiation, scientific knowledge and environmental degradation are often alien to the local people invo…
Green Fantasies: Photographic representations of biodiversity and ecotourism in the Western Pacific
Photography is a powerful tool for persuading donors to support conservation programs in the Pacific, but it frequently distorts the ecological concepts from which their legitimacy is derived. In this paper we argue that the images of charismatic wild life used to portray the Pacific as a“pristine wilderness” of rainforest and reef, betray the hegemonic ideology underpinning both biodiversity conservation and its related ecotourism development pr…
Pottery manufacture on tubetube
Problems with ethics committees
Science, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Anthropology: Managing the Impacts of Mining in Papua New Guinea
Science, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Anthropology:Managing the Impacts of Mining in Papua New Guinea Martha Macintyre (bio) and Simon Foale (bio) A little knowledge is apt to puff up, and make men giddy, but a greater share of it will set them right, and bring them to low and humble thoughts of themselves -A. B., The Mystery of Phanaticism, 1698 More than a decade of monitoring the social impacts of mining required numerous collaborativ…
Afterword Places, migration and sustainability: Anthropological reflections on mining and movement
Based on ethnographic research around the Misima and Lihir gold mines in Papua New Guinea, this Afterword provides anthropological reflections on the main themes of the articles in this issue. Endorsing the call for interdisciplinary research on mining, I present instantiations of the varying meanings of place, migration and sustainability. I describe variations in perceptions of place between different sites and these are also subject to change …
Confronting Violence against Women
Thoroughly modern mothers: Maternal aspirations and declining mortality on the Lihir islands, Papua
Attempts to improve overall rates of maternal and child survival and health in Pacific societies have often sought explanation in the traditional ideas and cultural practices that were assumed to discourage women from embracing introduced, modern medical services. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and data collected in the context of social monitoring of the impacts of a mining project on the Lihir islands, this paper describes a case in which wome…
Anthropology's histories: Dealing with time and transformation in the pacific
Battaglia, Debbora. On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. x + 252 pp. including appendix, notes, references, and index. $41.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Biersack, Aletta, ed. Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. vii + 383 pp. including chapter references. $37.40 cloth. Damon, Frederick H. From M…
Pottery manufacture on tubetube
Warfare and the changing context of ‘Kune’ on Tubetube
(1983). Warfare and the changing context of ‘Kune’ on Tubetube. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 18, The History and Anthropology of the Massim, pp. 11-34
The Kula: New Perspectives in Massim Exchange
The problem of the semi-alienable pig
The Kula. New Perspectives on Massim Exchange
Nurturance and nutrition: Change and continuity in concepts of food and feasting in a Southern Massim community
this period of dramatic dietary changes. New plants have been incorporated into the agricultural and nutritional systems, and the stability of gift exchange institutions, that mediate and accommodate material changes, has facilitated this syncretic process
The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. Annette B. Weiner
Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact
The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific peoples. The dramatic changes that affected the political and economic autonomy of indigenous people in the region also had significant effects on domestic life. This book, originally published in 1989, examines the ways in which this happened. Using the insights of history and anthropology, chapters cover a wide range of geogr…
Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System. Peggy Reeves Sanday
Wage, Trade, and Exchange in Melanesia: A Manus Society in the Modern State
Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate the traditional and the exotic with the untouched. They do so by describing the links between a peripheral village society and Papua New Guinea's natio…
Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact
Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact
Anthropology's histories: Dealing with time and transformation in the pacific
Battaglia, Debbora. On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. x + 252 pp. including appendix, notes, references, and index. $41.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Biersack, Aletta, ed. Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. vii + 383 pp. including chapter references. $37.40 cloth. Damon, Frederick H. From M…
Too many chiefs? Leadership in the Massim in the colonial ERA
Roger Martin Keesing (1935-93)
On Equivocal Ethnography
Cet article propose une reflexion sur l'ecriture de l'ethnologie, notamment sur la place de l'ethnographe lors de la recherche sur le terrain, sur les relations avec les informateurs, enfin sur la construction d'une ethnologie ou les informateurs participent a son elaboration. A partir d'une critique de l'experience ethnographique de Roger Keesing, qui a ecrit des histoires de vie en commun avec trois informateurs Kwaio des Iles Salomon, l'A. mon…
Dynamic and Flexible Aspects of Land and Marine Tenure at West Nggela: Implications for Marine Resource Management
At West Nggela, access to high value marine invertebrate stocks is controlled by consanguineal corporate groups holding primary rights (which include rights of exclusion) over reefs bearing these stocks. Disputes over primary rights appear to result in a breakdown in management practices, resulting in overfishing and severe depletion of stocks. An understanding of the common causes of disputes is therefore of considerable importance to marine res…
Petztorme Women: Responding to Change in Lihir, Papua New Guinea
The goldmining project on Lihir Island in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, has brought dramatic socio‐economic changes. In this matrilineal society, while women's economic contributions were substantial, their political status was not. Women's participation in decision‐making about the mine has been restricted, mainly because men have excluded them. The mining company established a women's section that has supported the development of wome…
Taking Care of Culture: Consultancy, Anthropology, and Gender Issues
Politicized Ecology: Local Responses to Mining in Papua New Guinea
Our paper draws on research in two sites where large goldmining projects are located — Misima and Lihir islands in Papua New Guinea. We examine the socio‐economic context in which criticisms of environmental degradation arise. We discuss the social and political meanings embedded in local demands for compensation for environmental damage, drawing attention to the disparities between local Melanesian conceptions of the environment and global, West…
Thoroughly modern mothers: Maternal aspirations and declining mortality on the Lihir islands, Papua
Attempts to improve overall rates of maternal and child survival and health in Pacific societies have often sought explanation in the traditional ideas and cultural practices that were assumed to discourage women from embracing introduced, modern medical services. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and data collected in the context of social monitoring of the impacts of a mining project on the Lihir islands, this paper describes a case in which wome…
Green Fantasies: Photographic representations of biodiversity and ecotourism in the Western Pacific
Photography is a powerful tool for persuading donors to support conservation programs in the Pacific, but it frequently distorts the ecological concepts from which their legitimacy is derived. In this paper we argue that the images of charismatic wild life used to portray the Pacific as a“pristine wilderness” of rainforest and reef, betray the hegemonic ideology underpinning both biodiversity conservation and its related ecotourism development pr…
Land and Marine Tenure, Ownership, and New Forms of Entitlement on Lihir: Changing Notions of Property in the Context of a Goldmining Project
We describe and analyze changes in ideas of land and marine tenure and resource rights in the Lihir group of islands in Papua New Guinea as they have developed over a ten-year period. The paper examines some issues that have become contentious since goldmining mine began in the 1980s, analyzing the underlying principles of tenure and changing ideas of entitlement that inform them. Beginning with a description of the basic representation of tenure…
Informed Consent and Mining Projects: A View from Papua New Guinea
Free, prior and informed consent is increasingly perceived as a means of ensuring that people's human fights are respected and their interests protected. This paper explores issues arising in the context of gaining informed consent about mining projects from people who are citizens of a developing nation. Assumptions about rights, processes of negotiation, scientific knowledge and environmental degradation are often alien to the local people invo…
Police and Thieves, Gunmen and Drunks: Problems with Men and Problems with Society in Papua New Guinea
The image of the ‘man with a gun’ is pervasive in Papua New Guinea and connotes not only the state's capacity to use force, but that of men to resist and subvert state control. At the same time, the association of beer and marijuana with both modernity and violent masculine behaviours provides the context, the justification and the forms of homosocial activities involving violence. In this paper, I explore the ambiguities surrounding guns as inst…
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