Doug Dalton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doug Dalton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doug |
| FAMILY NAME | Dalton |
| SIGNATURE | DALTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Longwood University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rawa-Nore gifting
This article comprises a rethinking of Mauss’s The gift, reciprocity, and exchange theory in anthropology, using theories of chaos and complexity to make sense of the author’s ethnographic data from Papua New Guinea. The article begins with an explanation of chaos and complexity, proceeds with an ethnographic demonstration focusing on pig feasts, marriage exchange, and exchanges within households, and concludes with a consideration of the implica…
C argo C ults
The term “cargo cult” originally embodied a colonial stereotype of irrational native behavior which anthropologists endeavored to explain in non‐ethnocentric ways, producing several classical accounts before anthropologists then sought to distance themselves from and to eliminate the phrase as derogatory and distorting of indigenous understandings and cultural means of innovation. Yet “cargo cult” continues to be widely employed as an analytical …
Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
Recursive Tricks and Holographic Infinities
At the beginning of the Winnebago trickster cycle, trickster fails as a chief by repeatedly calling a war party (which chiefs never do) each time only to be found cohabiting with a woman (which war leaders never do). Eventually leading his warriors, trickster utterly alienates them by smashing his own canoe and sacred war bundle. Finally left entirely alone, he then uses straw dummies to trick a buffalo into a quagmire, but as he carves the meat,…
Cargo Cults and Discursive Madness
Understood as mimetic portrayals of the image of unlimited good projected by European colonial culture, Melanesian 'cargo cults' are therefore viewed as 'irrational' within indigenous understandings. Consequently, Western anthropological discourse has sought to functionally normalize and nativize 'cargo cult' behaviors at the expense of denying their non-rational character. The result has been a lexical and semantic uncertainty and explanatory in…
The Lost Drum
The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond. JAMES F. WEINER. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxii + 199 pp., figures, illustrations, notes, references, index
Deconstructing Critical Anthropology
In a review of Critical Anthropology, this paper argues that Critical Anthropology misinterprets 'deconstruction' because it continually aims to transcend Western metaphysical categories. Drawing on my fieldwork experience in Papua New Guinea, I propose instead a self-deconstructing ethnography that locates itself in inescapable interpretive paradoxes by considering the postmodern 'withdrawal of reality' through an examination of the difference b…
Cargo Cults and Discursive Madness
Understood as mimetic portrayals of the image of unlimited good projected by European colonial culture, Melanesian 'cargo cults' are therefore viewed as 'irrational' within indigenous understandings. Consequently, Western anthropological discourse has sought to functionally normalize and nativize 'cargo cult' behaviors at the expense of denying their non-rational character. The result has been a lexical and semantic uncertainty and explanatory in…
Recursive Tricks and Holographic Infinities
At the beginning of the Winnebago trickster cycle, trickster fails as a chief by repeatedly calling a war party (which chiefs never do) each time only to be found cohabiting with a woman (which war leaders never do). Eventually leading his warriors, trickster utterly alienates them by smashing his own canoe and sacred war bundle. Finally left entirely alone, he then uses straw dummies to trick a buffalo into a quagmire, but as he carves the meat,…
Deconstructing Critical Anthropology
In a review of Critical Anthropology, this paper argues that Critical Anthropology misinterprets 'deconstruction' because it continually aims to transcend Western metaphysical categories. Drawing on my fieldwork experience in Papua New Guinea, I propose instead a self-deconstructing ethnography that locates itself in inescapable interpretive paradoxes by considering the postmodern 'withdrawal of reality' through an examination of the difference b…
The Lost Drum
The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond. JAMES F. WEINER. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxii + 199 pp., figures, illustrations, notes, references, index
Cargo Cults and Discursive Madness
Understood as mimetic portrayals of the image of unlimited good projected by European colonial culture, Melanesian 'cargo cults' are therefore viewed as 'irrational' within indigenous understandings. Consequently, Western anthropological discourse has sought to functionally normalize and nativize 'cargo cult' behaviors at the expense of denying their non-rational character. The result has been a lexical and semantic uncertainty and explanatory in…
Recursive Tricks and Holographic Infinities
At the beginning of the Winnebago trickster cycle, trickster fails as a chief by repeatedly calling a war party (which chiefs never do) each time only to be found cohabiting with a woman (which war leaders never do). Eventually leading his warriors, trickster utterly alienates them by smashing his own canoe and sacred war bundle. Finally left entirely alone, he then uses straw dummies to trick a buffalo into a quagmire, but as he carves the meat,…
Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique
C argo C ults
The term “cargo cult” originally embodied a colonial stereotype of irrational native behavior which anthropologists endeavored to explain in non‐ethnocentric ways, producing several classical accounts before anthropologists then sought to distance themselves from and to eliminate the phrase as derogatory and distorting of indigenous understandings and cultural means of innovation. Yet “cargo cult” continues to be widely employed as an analytical …
Rawa-Nore gifting
This article comprises a rethinking of Mauss’s The gift, reciprocity, and exchange theory in anthropology, using theories of chaos and complexity to make sense of the author’s ethnographic data from Papua New Guinea. The article begins with an explanation of chaos and complexity, proceeds with an ethnographic demonstration focusing on pig feasts, marriage exchange, and exchanges within households, and concludes with a consideration of the implica…
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cult (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · New guinea (3 works)