Jadran Mimica
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jadran Mimica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jadran |
| FAMILY NAME | Mimica |
| SIGNATURE | MIMICA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gillison's gift
Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia ( PNG )
Among the Yagwoia (PNG), the dynamics of fatherhood is a process of man's transmission to and incorporation of his vital substance by his progeny. In this way, the father becomes replaced principally by his son(s). This process, referred to as the incorporation and replacement of the father's ‘bone’, has multiple actualisations whose concrete reality and significance can only be adequately understood through individual‐biographical life‐situation…
If the Yagwoia were the Gimi: A Reply to Gillison's Critical Appraisal of ‘Stalked by the Malignant Spirit…’
She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women. A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Gillian Gillison. Series: Culture, Mind, and Society. 2020. Londo…
In Memoriam: Roy Wagner (1938–2018) – An Anthropologist Extraordinaire
On Academic Foucauldian-dramaturgy and Modernity in Melanesia: On Academic Foucauldian-dramaturgy and Modernity in Melanesia
This short paper offers a critical reflection on the uses of Michel Foucault's ideas and the notion of ‘modernity’ which mark a current trend among so many ethnographers of Melanesian life-worlds. Through the examination of several ethnographic cases I show the limitations of these usages and, correlatively, advocate a more mindful epistemic regard for the cultural realities and the processes of transformations of Melanesian life-worlds in the pr…
Discriminatory Statistics: Reply
Of shamanism and planetary crisis
Comment on Kopenawa, Davi and Bruce Albert. 2013. The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
A Message from the Editors
Flying away like a bird: An instance of severance from the parental abode (Iwolaqamalycaane, Yagwoia, Papua New Guinea)
This is a psychoanalytic ethnographic account of a Yagwoia-Angan boy’s struggle to break away from the sphere of his paternal and agnatic fraternal relatedness. It exemplifies a particular biographical situation which is consonant with the general cultural-existential dynamics of the Yagwoia father-son relationship
Un/knowing and the practice of ethnography: A reflection on some Western cosmo-ontological notions and their anthropological application
Framed by a critical take on the anthropological use of Western epistemological and cosmo-ontological notions, this article explores their applications to different cultural life-worlds that anthropologists explore and write about. I assess the inadequacy of this enterprise and offer a constructive corrective based on a positive and critical anthropological appreciation and appropriation of Western intellectual tradition. More specifically, this …
Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research
In this article I sketch out some fundamental aspects of ethnographic practice and understanding within the framework of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Their synthesis, created through continuous field research and self-transformative thinking, offers a deeper understanding of psyche, unconscious, and imagination as the generative matrix of human cultural life-worlds. Moreover, this view posits ethnographic experience and creation of critical …
Mother's Umbilicus and Father's Spirit: The Dialectics of Selfhood of a Yagwoia Transgendered Person
This is an ethnographic exploration of a Yagwoia transgendered person and his‐her life‐situation within the specificities of libidinal dynamics and economy of intersubjective relationships that constitute Yagwoia matrix of kinship and affinal relatedness. Developed within a framework of psychoanalysis and existential phenomenology, and forged through a long‐term field research, this study offers an in‐depth perspective on concrete realities of ge…
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
"Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable wi…
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
This collection of essays is about psychoanalytic ethnography. Its concern is the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psychoanalytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. The authors engage various aspects of the human condition within a wide range of conceptual frameworks that are representative of contemporary psychoanalytic understanding and practice. The anthropological contributions …
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
This collection of essays is about psychoanalytic ethnography. Its concern is the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psychoanalytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. The authors engage various aspects of the human condition within a wide range of conceptual frameworks that are representative of contemporary psychoanalytic understanding and practice. The anthropological contributions …
Descended from the Celestial Rope: From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self
The dialectics of fatherhood and sonship among the Yagwoia of Papua New Guinea has multiple actualizations whose concrete reality and significance can be adequately understood only through individual-biographical life situations and trajectories. Accordingly, the focus is on the lifelong course of the relationship between a man and his father through which the individual specificities of the incorporative dynamics indigenously lived as 'implantat…
Dreams, Laki , and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia ‘Inner Feminine’
This is a three-part study of dream-experiences and their existential reality in the life-world of the Yagwoia of the Papua New Guinea highlands. The focus is on a single conjugal couple, their life-trajectory, and the articulation of their bond as specifically expressed in their dreams. In the first instalment is presented the general cosmo-ontological background of Yagwoia dreaming and the fundamental dialectics of the contra-sexual self-identi…
Dreams, Laki , and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia “Inner Feminine”
In the first part of this study (Oceania, 76/1) I presented the general cosmo-ontological background of Yagwoia dreaming and the fundamental dialectics of the contra-sexual self-identity of a conjugal couple (Tilm and QANG) manifest in their oneiric encounters. The second part focuses on the man, QANG, and the vicissitudes of his soul's power to affect gambling outcomes. I explore the intrinsic relationship between dreaming and the practice of ga…
Dreams, Laki , and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia ‘Inner Feminine’
In the first part of this study ( Oceania , 76/1) I presented the general cosmo‐ontological background of Yagwoia (Papua New Guinea) dreaming and the fundamental dialectics of the contra‐sexual self‐identity of a conjugal couple (Tilm and QANG) manifest in their oneiric encounters. The second part ( Oceania , 76/2) was focused on the man, QANG, and the vicissitudes of his soul's power to affect gambling outcomes. I showed that Yagwoia gambling ex…
The Death of a Strong, Great, Bad Man: An Ethnography Of Soul Incorporation
The paper is a detailed description and interpretation of the death of a Yagwoia‐Angan great killer‐warrior and of two soul‐incorporation rites performed in the period preceding the interment of the corpse. The interpretive framework is a synthesis of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and archetypal psychology articulated through the cosmo‐ontological specificities of the Yagwoia life‐world. The paper elucidates the dynamics and original…
A Review from the Field
Book reviewed in this article: Gilbert Herdt. Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field
The Foi and Heidegger: Western Philosophical Poetics and a New Guinea Life‐World
James F. Weiner. The Empty Place. Poetry, Space and Being Among the Foi of Papua New Guinea
The Incest Passions: An Outline of the Logic of Iqwaye Social Organization
Incest is best elucidated as a plethora of human desires, which are affirmed by their social regulation rather than negated by it This contrasts with the received wisdom of anthropological theory which is focussed on the prohibition of incest rather man on the incest desires which motivate the logic of their social regulation through interdictions. The theoretical fixation on prohibition expresses modern Western bourgeois incesto‐phobic sensibili…
The Incest Passions: An Outline of the Logic of the Iqwaye Social Organization
In the first part of this paper ( Oceania 62(1)) I presented the mythopoeic‐cosmological foundations of incest among the Iqwaye people, a Yagwoia‐Anga group of the West Menyamya Census Division, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The core of incest passions derives from the primordial autosexual‐autonutritive, i.e. self‐procreative, cosmic man. Here I am demonstrating how incest as autocreation is realized in the main structural configurations of…
Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopoeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number
Un/knowing and the practice of ethnography: A reflection on some Western cosmo-ontological notions and their anthropological application
Framed by a critical take on the anthropological use of Western epistemological and cosmo-ontological notions, this article explores their applications to different cultural life-worlds that anthropologists explore and write about. I assess the inadequacy of this enterprise and offer a constructive corrective based on a positive and critical anthropological appreciation and appropriation of Western intellectual tradition. More specifically, this …
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
This collection of essays is about psychoanalytic ethnography. Its concern is the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psychoanalytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. The authors engage various aspects of the human condition within a wide range of conceptual frameworks that are representative of contemporary psychoanalytic understanding and practice. The anthropological contributions …
Anthropology in its highest form: Critical Comments on R.C. Kelly'sEtoro Social Structure: A Study in Structural Contradiction
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Of shamanism and planetary crisis
Comment on Kopenawa, Davi and Bruce Albert. 2013. The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Flying away like a bird: An instance of severance from the parental abode (Iwolaqamalycaane, Yagwoia, Papua New Guinea)
This is a psychoanalytic ethnographic account of a Yagwoia-Angan boy’s struggle to break away from the sphere of his paternal and agnatic fraternal relatedness. It exemplifies a particular biographical situation which is consonant with the general cultural-existential dynamics of the Yagwoia father-son relationship
Anthropology in its highest form: Critical Comments on R.C. Kelly'sEtoro Social Structure: A Study in Structural Contradiction
a
Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopoeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number
The Incest Passions: An Outline of the Logic of Iqwaye Social Organization
Incest is best elucidated as a plethora of human desires, which are affirmed by their social regulation rather than negated by it This contrasts with the received wisdom of anthropological theory which is focussed on the prohibition of incest rather man on the incest desires which motivate the logic of their social regulation through interdictions. The theoretical fixation on prohibition expresses modern Western bourgeois incesto‐phobic sensibili…
The Incest Passions: An Outline of the Logic of the Iqwaye Social Organization
In the first part of this paper ( Oceania 62(1)) I presented the mythopoeic‐cosmological foundations of incest among the Iqwaye people, a Yagwoia‐Anga group of the West Menyamya Census Division, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The core of incest passions derives from the primordial autosexual‐autonutritive, i.e. self‐procreative, cosmic man. Here I am demonstrating how incest as autocreation is realized in the main structural configurations of…
The Foi and Heidegger: Western Philosophical Poetics and a New Guinea Life‐World
James F. Weiner. The Empty Place. Poetry, Space and Being Among the Foi of Papua New Guinea
A Review from the Field
Book reviewed in this article: Gilbert Herdt. Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field
The Death of a Strong, Great, Bad Man: An Ethnography Of Soul Incorporation
The paper is a detailed description and interpretation of the death of a Yagwoia‐Angan great killer‐warrior and of two soul‐incorporation rites performed in the period preceding the interment of the corpse. The interpretive framework is a synthesis of existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and archetypal psychology articulated through the cosmo‐ontological specificities of the Yagwoia life‐world. The paper elucidates the dynamics and original…
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
This collection of essays is about psychoanalytic ethnography. Its concern is the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psychoanalytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. The authors engage various aspects of the human condition within a wide range of conceptual frameworks that are representative of contemporary psychoanalytic understanding and practice. The anthropological contributions …
Descended from the Celestial Rope: From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self
The dialectics of fatherhood and sonship among the Yagwoia of Papua New Guinea has multiple actualizations whose concrete reality and significance can be adequately understood only through individual-biographical life situations and trajectories. Accordingly, the focus is on the lifelong course of the relationship between a man and his father through which the individual specificities of the incorporative dynamics indigenously lived as 'implantat…
Dreams, Laki , and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia ‘Inner Feminine’
This is a three-part study of dream-experiences and their existential reality in the life-world of the Yagwoia of the Papua New Guinea highlands. The focus is on a single conjugal couple, their life-trajectory, and the articulation of their bond as specifically expressed in their dreams. In the first instalment is presented the general cosmo-ontological background of Yagwoia dreaming and the fundamental dialectics of the contra-sexual self-identi…
Dreams, Laki , and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia “Inner Feminine”
In the first part of this study (Oceania, 76/1) I presented the general cosmo-ontological background of Yagwoia dreaming and the fundamental dialectics of the contra-sexual self-identity of a conjugal couple (Tilm and QANG) manifest in their oneiric encounters. The second part focuses on the man, QANG, and the vicissitudes of his soul's power to affect gambling outcomes. I explore the intrinsic relationship between dreaming and the practice of ga…
Dreams, Laki , and Mourning: A Psychoanalytic Ethnography of the Yagwoia ‘Inner Feminine’
In the first part of this study ( Oceania , 76/1) I presented the general cosmo‐ontological background of Yagwoia (Papua New Guinea) dreaming and the fundamental dialectics of the contra‐sexual self‐identity of a conjugal couple (Tilm and QANG) manifest in their oneiric encounters. The second part ( Oceania , 76/2) was focused on the man, QANG, and the vicissitudes of his soul's power to affect gambling outcomes. I showed that Yagwoia gambling ex…
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
"Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable wi…
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
This collection of essays is about psychoanalytic ethnography. Its concern is the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psychoanalytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. The authors engage various aspects of the human condition within a wide range of conceptual frameworks that are representative of contemporary psychoanalytic understanding and practice. The anthropological contributions …
Mother's Umbilicus and Father's Spirit: The Dialectics of Selfhood of a Yagwoia Transgendered Person
This is an ethnographic exploration of a Yagwoia transgendered person and his‐her life‐situation within the specificities of libidinal dynamics and economy of intersubjective relationships that constitute Yagwoia matrix of kinship and affinal relatedness. Developed within a framework of psychoanalysis and existential phenomenology, and forged through a long‐term field research, this study offers an in‐depth perspective on concrete realities of ge…
Phenomenological Psychoanalysis: The Epistemology of Ethnographic Field Research
In this article I sketch out some fundamental aspects of ethnographic practice and understanding within the framework of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Their synthesis, created through continuous field research and self-transformative thinking, offers a deeper understanding of psyche, unconscious, and imagination as the generative matrix of human cultural life-worlds. Moreover, this view posits ethnographic experience and creation of critical …
Flying away like a bird: An instance of severance from the parental abode (Iwolaqamalycaane, Yagwoia, Papua New Guinea)
This is a psychoanalytic ethnographic account of a Yagwoia-Angan boy’s struggle to break away from the sphere of his paternal and agnatic fraternal relatedness. It exemplifies a particular biographical situation which is consonant with the general cultural-existential dynamics of the Yagwoia father-son relationship
Un/knowing and the practice of ethnography: A reflection on some Western cosmo-ontological notions and their anthropological application
Framed by a critical take on the anthropological use of Western epistemological and cosmo-ontological notions, this article explores their applications to different cultural life-worlds that anthropologists explore and write about. I assess the inadequacy of this enterprise and offer a constructive corrective based on a positive and critical anthropological appreciation and appropriation of Western intellectual tradition. More specifically, this …
A Message from the Editors
On Academic Foucauldian-dramaturgy and Modernity in Melanesia: On Academic Foucauldian-dramaturgy and Modernity in Melanesia
This short paper offers a critical reflection on the uses of Michel Foucault's ideas and the notion of ‘modernity’ which mark a current trend among so many ethnographers of Melanesian life-worlds. Through the examination of several ethnographic cases I show the limitations of these usages and, correlatively, advocate a more mindful epistemic regard for the cultural realities and the processes of transformations of Melanesian life-worlds in the pr…
Discriminatory Statistics: Reply
Of shamanism and planetary crisis
Comment on Kopenawa, Davi and Bruce Albert. 2013. The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman. Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
In Memoriam: Roy Wagner (1938–2018) – An Anthropologist Extraordinaire
Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia ( PNG )
Among the Yagwoia (PNG), the dynamics of fatherhood is a process of man's transmission to and incorporation of his vital substance by his progeny. In this way, the father becomes replaced principally by his son(s). This process, referred to as the incorporation and replacement of the father's ‘bone’, has multiple actualisations whose concrete reality and significance can only be adequately understood through individual‐biographical life‐situation…
If the Yagwoia were the Gimi: A Reply to Gillison's Critical Appraisal of ‘Stalked by the Malignant Spirit…’
Sociology (20 works) · Anthropology (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Ethnography (13 works) · History (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (7 works)