Jeffrey Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Colonisation and Late Period Faunal Assemblages from Ofu Island, American Samoa
The identification and analysis of 1583 bones from colonisation (~2700 cal BP) to late period (post-800 cal BP) cultural layers from archaeological site AS-13-41 on Ofu Island, American Samoa are reported. The assemblage is dominated by fish (~91 per cent; NISP = 1435, MNI = 162) with bones of human, Green Sea Turtle, sea birds (shearwaters and petrels) and a terrestrial bird (Buff-Banded Rail), as well as the commensals Pacific Rat, chicken (Red…
Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. He reflects upon his own fieldwork as an anthropologist as he scrutinizes the cultural construction of encounters and exchanges between New Guineans and Australians from the 1930s on. Colonized and colonizers alike are the focus of an analysis that draws upon theories of culture, temporality, discursive rep…
Cause And Afek: Primal women, bachelor cults and the female spirit
Blurred Boundaries And Transformed Identities: Myth and ritual in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Shit Beautiful: Tambu and Kina Revisited
The concept of inalienability as discussed by Annette Weiner (1992) seems to privilege Polynesia over Melanesia in terms of a more ‘evolved’ logic of object possession. Two instantiations of material culture from the Wiru and Tolai people, pearlshells and coils of shell‐money respectively, are compared and assessed for their inclusion into the category of “inalienable possessions.” The conclusion argues against fitting Melanesian artefacts into a…
Gold, Sex, and Pollution: Male illness and myth at Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea
In 1986 a goldfield was discovered in a high-altitude valley of the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Hundreds of Huli people from the Southern Highlands Province soon arrived to take advantage of the fortunes that could be made. This article examines the gold's incorporation into Huli mythopoeia, relates it to men's explanations of the illnesses they suffered at the goldfield, and shows how gold became analogous to menstrual blood as an agent of pollu…
Madness and colonisation: The embodiment of power in Pangia
The article considers two examples of ‘madness’ which occurred during the colonial era in Pangia district, Southern Highlands Province, PNG. The first, immediately prior to pacification, concerned outbreaks of madness among young Wiru men which were similar to the ‘wildman’ behaviour described in the Highlands ethnography. The second style of madness was associated with the so‐called ‘hysteria’ accompanying revival activity by Christian missions.…
Debacle in Somalia
now threaten to obscure the fact that, prior to late 1992, the international response to Somalia's long agony was indeed abject failure. Inadequate and halfhearted multilateral measures contributed significantly to the very circumstances of anarchy, violence and starvation now being addressed?by necessity?by 31,000 U.S. Marines and combined internation al military forces. Operation Restore Hope is likely to prevent marauding bandits from stealing…
Pearlshell Symbolism in Highlands Papua New Guinea, With Particular Reference to the Wiru People of Southern Highlands Province
Pearlshells, in their use in exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, have usually been analysed as 'power tokens' in a political context dominated by big men. This article attempts to account for the historically recent acceptance and use of pearlshells in terms of symbolic and aesthetic, rather than political and economic, values. The symbolism of two types of pearlshell found among Wiru people is considered, and an overview of available mat…
The Incredible Shrinking Men: Male ideology and development in a Southern Highlands society
Kaun and Kogono: Cargo Cults and Development in Karavar and Pangia1
Differences between Highlands and Seaboard Melanesia have intrigued anthropologists for decades. The persistence of cargo cults on the Seaboard was used to differentiate coastal people from Highlanders, who, because of their interest and engagement in development, were often viewed as more pragmatic and less ‘religious’ than Seaboarders. This study will suggest that development can have cult dimensions, and concludes with a proposed distinction b…
Gold, Sex, and Pollution: Male illness and myth at Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea
In 1986 a goldfield was discovered in a high-altitude valley of the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Hundreds of Huli people from the Southern Highlands Province soon arrived to take advantage of the fortunes that could be made. This article examines the gold's incorporation into Huli mythopoeia, relates it to men's explanations of the illnesses they suffered at the goldfield, and shows how gold became analogous to menstrual blood as an agent of pollu…
The Incredible Shrinking Men: Male ideology and development in a Southern Highlands society
Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. He reflects upon his own fieldwork as an anthropologist as he scrutinizes the cultural construction of encounters and exchanges between New Guineans and Australians from the 1930s on. Colonized and colonizers alike are the focus of an analysis that draws upon theories of culture, temporality, discursive rep…
Debacle in Somalia
now threaten to obscure the fact that, prior to late 1992, the international response to Somalia's long agony was indeed abject failure. Inadequate and halfhearted multilateral measures contributed significantly to the very circumstances of anarchy, violence and starvation now being addressed?by necessity?by 31,000 U.S. Marines and combined internation al military forces. Operation Restore Hope is likely to prevent marauding bandits from stealing…
Cause And Afek: Primal women, bachelor cults and the female spirit
Kaun and Kogono: Cargo Cults and Development in Karavar and Pangia1
Differences between Highlands and Seaboard Melanesia have intrigued anthropologists for decades. The persistence of cargo cults on the Seaboard was used to differentiate coastal people from Highlanders, who, because of their interest and engagement in development, were often viewed as more pragmatic and less ‘religious’ than Seaboarders. This study will suggest that development can have cult dimensions, and concludes with a proposed distinction b…
The Incredible Shrinking Men: Male ideology and development in a Southern Highlands society
Pearlshell Symbolism in Highlands Papua New Guinea, With Particular Reference to the Wiru People of Southern Highlands Province
Pearlshells, in their use in exchange in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, have usually been analysed as 'power tokens' in a political context dominated by big men. This article attempts to account for the historically recent acceptance and use of pearlshells in terms of symbolic and aesthetic, rather than political and economic, values. The symbolism of two types of pearlshell found among Wiru people is considered, and an overview of available mat…
Madness and colonisation: The embodiment of power in Pangia
The article considers two examples of ‘madness’ which occurred during the colonial era in Pangia district, Southern Highlands Province, PNG. The first, immediately prior to pacification, concerned outbreaks of madness among young Wiru men which were similar to the ‘wildman’ behaviour described in the Highlands ethnography. The second style of madness was associated with the so‐called ‘hysteria’ accompanying revival activity by Christian missions.…
Debacle in Somalia
now threaten to obscure the fact that, prior to late 1992, the international response to Somalia's long agony was indeed abject failure. Inadequate and halfhearted multilateral measures contributed significantly to the very circumstances of anarchy, violence and starvation now being addressed?by necessity?by 31,000 U.S. Marines and combined internation al military forces. Operation Restore Hope is likely to prevent marauding bandits from stealing…
Gold, Sex, and Pollution: Male illness and myth at Mt. Kare, Papua New Guinea
In 1986 a goldfield was discovered in a high-altitude valley of the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Hundreds of Huli people from the Southern Highlands Province soon arrived to take advantage of the fortunes that could be made. This article examines the gold's incorporation into Huli mythopoeia, relates it to men's explanations of the illnesses they suffered at the goldfield, and shows how gold became analogous to menstrual blood as an agent of pollu…
Shit Beautiful: Tambu and Kina Revisited
The concept of inalienability as discussed by Annette Weiner (1992) seems to privilege Polynesia over Melanesia in terms of a more ‘evolved’ logic of object possession. Two instantiations of material culture from the Wiru and Tolai people, pearlshells and coils of shell‐money respectively, are compared and assessed for their inclusion into the category of “inalienable possessions.” The conclusion argues against fitting Melanesian artefacts into a…
Cause And Afek: Primal women, bachelor cults and the female spirit
Blurred Boundaries And Transformed Identities: Myth and ritual in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. He reflects upon his own fieldwork as an anthropologist as he scrutinizes the cultural construction of encounters and exchanges between New Guineans and Australians from the 1930s on. Colonized and colonizers alike are the focus of an analysis that draws upon theories of culture, temporality, discursive rep…
Colonisation and Late Period Faunal Assemblages from Ofu Island, American Samoa
The identification and analysis of 1583 bones from colonisation (~2700 cal BP) to late period (post-800 cal BP) cultural layers from archaeological site AS-13-41 on Ofu Island, American Samoa are reported. The assemblage is dominated by fish (~91 per cent; NISP = 1435, MNI = 162) with bones of human, Green Sea Turtle, sea birds (shearwaters and petrels) and a terrestrial bird (Buff-Banded Rail), as well as the commensals Pacific Rat, chicken (Red…
History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works)