Anton Ploeg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anton Ploeg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anton |
| FAMILY NAME | Ploeg |
| SIGNATURE | PLOEG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rossel Islanders and Wanggulam Lani: Contrasting forms of social inequality
This paper compares social inequality in the Melanesian societies of the Rossel Islanders and the Wanggulam Lani. As regards the Rossel Islanders, I rely on the ethnography of John Liep. For the Wanggulam Lani I use my own research among them. The comparison shows how, in these two societies, men ac-quired prestige and power in different ways: on Rossel Island by prominence in transactions in wealth items, and among the Wanggulam Lani by warriorh…
De Harvard-Peabody Expeditie naar de Dani van de Baliem-vallei. Ethnografische en Autobiografische Notities. Exploratieressort Oostelijk Bergland. 1959–1962, by Broekhuyse, Jan
Jan Broekhuyse was a member of the colonial public service from 1959 to 1962 in what was then Dutch New Guinea, until the Dutch ceded administration to Indonesia.He stayed on during the interim administration run by the United Nations, from October 1962 through to March 1963.Later, he worked in a range of development projects across Africa.Shortly before his death, in late 2020, he completed the book under review in which he accounts for his work…
The ‘Third Expedition to South New Guinea’: A Review Essay
The essay deals with colonial exploration in southwest New Guinea in the early 20th century. The expedition concerned was a large-scale, complex, and risky undertaking in an area that was hardly known at the time. The essay reviews the diary written by Gerard Versteeg, a staff member of the expedition. Versteeg was a physician, but in addition to his medical work he had to perform other tasks. His diary provides a day-to-day account of the course…
A Vocation, a Task: Two New Contributions on Dutch New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea inherited a multiple entry system for its administrative staff, resembling the one that had existed in the Dutch East Indies.At the top were the public servants dealing with Interior Affairs (ambtenaren Binnenlands Bestuur), in short ambtenaren BB.They were Dutchmen with university degrees obtained in the Netherlands, first in "Indology", later, when that discipline was discontinued, in a range of other disciplines.Second were th…
Dreams Made Small: The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia, by Jenny Munro
Government in Wanggulam
J an P ouwer's Field Research in the S tar M ountains, W est N ew G uinea
The Dutch Retreat from New Guinea: Two Accounts
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnton PloegRadboud University
Herman van Roijen 1905–1991: Een diplomaat van klasse
Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Modern Papuan activists
Review of: Victor Kaisiëpo Msn, Een perspectief voor Papoea: Het verhaal van mijn leven en mijn strijd. Recorded and edited by Willem Campschreur. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2011, 272 pp. ISBN 9789460221149. Price: EUR 19.50 (paperback). Charles Farhadian (ed.), De getuigenissen: Papoea. Zuidland: [Lems], 2010, 240 pp. [Translation of The testimony project Papua: A collection of personal histories in West Papua. Jayapura: Deiyai, 2007.] ISBN 9789…
The Other Western Highlands
The German Eipo Research Project
This paper reviews the results of the research carried out that a group of German scholars and scientists has carried out with the Eipo, in the eastern highlands of West Papua, Indonesia. Their work started in the mid- 1970’s and has not been completely finalised so far. The research aimed at a comprehensive documentation of the way of life of the Eipo. This aim required the interdisciplinarity that characterised the project, although anthropolog…
Wealth Items in the Western Highlands of West Papua
n Contains fulltext :\n 64363-OA.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
De Papoea: What's in a name?1
The other Western Highlands
This paper deals with the ways of life obtaining in the western half of the Central Highlands of western New Guinea at the eve of the colonial era. It analyses headmanship and the disposal of the fruits of intensive agriculture making use of the Great Men – Leader – Big Man typology conceptualised by Godelier and Lemonnier in their analyses of east New Guinea Highlands ways of life. While Ekagi-me, living near the Paniai lakes, conformed to a Big…
Colonial land law in dutch new guinea
Amendments proposed, in 1955, to the section of the New Guinea Act dealing with the recognition and alienation of land under indigenous tenure in Dutch New Guinea led to open debate. Orthodox views on the land rights of colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies, and the criticisms levelled at the colonial administration by the distinguished legal expert, C. van Vollenhoven, provide a context for appreciating the debate over land law in Dutch New…
Introduction: Change and conflict in Papua new guinea land and resource rights
(1997). Introduction: Change and conflict in Papua new guinea land and resource rights. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 507-527
First contact, in the highlands of Irian Jaya
The intensive exploration of West New Guinea started in the early years of this century. It was interrupted by World War I and resumed afterwards. Apart from a large scale programme undertaken by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies, it included expeditions by British and German explorers. Many among them were scholars who investigated the local populations, fauna, geography, and geology, with a view to the colonial valorisation of th…
Ethnographies/Ers Like Greek Tragedies
Cultural politics among the Siassi, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea
This article deals with relationships between, on the one hand, Papua New Guinean public institutions at the state and provincial levels and statewide organizations such as churches and, on the other hand, groups of rural Papua New Guineans.The article is subdivided into four parts.In the first part, I discuss principal features of the state-subject relationships in Papua New Guinea as they developed over the course of the colonial era.In the sec…
Legacies of an unknown past
This paper deals with contrasts between on the one hand Dani cultures in the Central Highlands of West Irian, and on the other hand cultures in what are now the Eastern and Western Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea. In two earlier papers I compared Grand Valley with Bokondini Dani, a Western Dani group (Ploeg 1966 and Ploeg in press). Fortunately, Feil's recent analysis of the evolution of Highland cultures (1987) now allows me to elaborate…
Dependency Among the Kovai, Siassi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea1
Food imports into Papua New Guinea
A source-critical or tradition-historical approach to the Genesis Apocryphon will quite justifiably emphasize the features of the Apocryphon that point toward what can be described as its lack of compositional unity. There exists, however, a level on which the Apocryphon can be shown to be a whole; that is its narrative unity. The latter is the result of the ways in which the final author/composer organized and manipulated the sources and traditi…
A New Guinea Landscape: Community, Space and Time in the Eastern Highlands
Introduction: Change and conflict in Papua new guinea land and resource rights
(1997). Introduction: Change and conflict in Papua new guinea land and resource rights. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 507-527
Legacies of an unknown past
This paper deals with contrasts between on the one hand Dani cultures in the Central Highlands of West Irian, and on the other hand cultures in what are now the Eastern and Western Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea. In two earlier papers I compared Grand Valley with Bokondini Dani, a Western Dani group (Ploeg 1966 and Ploeg in press). Fortunately, Feil's recent analysis of the evolution of Highland cultures (1987) now allows me to elaborate…
Some comparative remarks about the Dani of the Baliem valley and the Dani at Bokondini
1T he name "Dani" refers to about 150,000 to 200,000 people (Bromley; 1960, 235) living in the Central Highlands of West New Guinea.To a certain extent they form a cultural unit and in this paper I would like to discuss some identical and diverse elements in the cultures of two Dani groupings.The groupings are Dani living in the upper catchment area of the Hablifoeri and Dani living in the Grand Baliem Valley.For brevity I will refer to the Grand…
De Papoea: What's in a name?1
Feasting for Gain and Help
The German Eipo Research Project
This paper reviews the results of the research carried out that a group of German scholars and scientists has carried out with the Eipo, in the eastern highlands of West Papua, Indonesia. Their work started in the mid- 1970’s and has not been completely finalised so far. The research aimed at a comprehensive documentation of the way of life of the Eipo. This aim required the interdisciplinarity that characterised the project, although anthropolog…
Wealth Items in the Western Highlands of West Papua
n Contains fulltext :\n 64363-OA.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Colonial land law in dutch new guinea
Amendments proposed, in 1955, to the section of the New Guinea Act dealing with the recognition and alienation of land under indigenous tenure in Dutch New Guinea led to open debate. Orthodox views on the land rights of colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies, and the criticisms levelled at the colonial administration by the distinguished legal expert, C. van Vollenhoven, provide a context for appreciating the debate over land law in Dutch New…
First contact, in the highlands of Irian Jaya
The intensive exploration of West New Guinea started in the early years of this century. It was interrupted by World War I and resumed afterwards. Apart from a large scale programme undertaken by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies, it included expeditions by British and German explorers. Many among them were scholars who investigated the local populations, fauna, geography, and geology, with a view to the colonial valorisation of th…
A New Guinea Landscape: Community, Space and Time in the Eastern Highlands
The Situm and Gobari Ex-Servicemen's Settlements
The establishme nt of the settlementsThe block-holders Intra-block contacts between settlers Inter-block contac ts between settlers 66Relationships between settlers and outsiders Conclus ionOutline of those parts of the Papua-New Guinea Administration concerned with rural resettlement policy
Some comparative remarks about the Dani of the Baliem valley and the Dani at Bokondini
1T he name "Dani" refers to about 150,000 to 200,000 people (Bromley; 1960, 235) living in the Central Highlands of West New Guinea.To a certain extent they form a cultural unit and in this paper I would like to discuss some identical and diverse elements in the cultures of two Dani groupings.The groupings are Dani living in the upper catchment area of the Hablifoeri and Dani living in the Grand Baliem Valley.For brevity I will refer to the Grand…
Government in Wanggulam
The Situm and Gobari Ex-Servicemen's Settlements
The establishme nt of the settlementsThe block-holders Intra-block contacts between settlers Inter-block contac ts between settlers 66Relationships between settlers and outsiders Conclus ionOutline of those parts of the Papua-New Guinea Administration concerned with rural resettlement policy
Feasting for Gain and Help
Law and State in Papua New Guinea
A New Guinea Landscape: Community, Space and Time in the Eastern Highlands
Dependency Among the Kovai, Siassi, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea1
Food imports into Papua New Guinea
A source-critical or tradition-historical approach to the Genesis Apocryphon will quite justifiably emphasize the features of the Apocryphon that point toward what can be described as its lack of compositional unity. There exists, however, a level on which the Apocryphon can be shown to be a whole; that is its narrative unity. The latter is the result of the ways in which the final author/composer organized and manipulated the sources and traditi…
Legacies of an unknown past
This paper deals with contrasts between on the one hand Dani cultures in the Central Highlands of West Irian, and on the other hand cultures in what are now the Eastern and Western Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea. In two earlier papers I compared Grand Valley with Bokondini Dani, a Western Dani group (Ploeg 1966 and Ploeg in press). Fortunately, Feil's recent analysis of the evolution of Highland cultures (1987) now allows me to elaborate…
Ethnographies/Ers Like Greek Tragedies
Cultural politics among the Siassi, Morobe province, Papua New Guinea
This article deals with relationships between, on the one hand, Papua New Guinean public institutions at the state and provincial levels and statewide organizations such as churches and, on the other hand, groups of rural Papua New Guineans.The article is subdivided into four parts.In the first part, I discuss principal features of the state-subject relationships in Papua New Guinea as they developed over the course of the colonial era.In the sec…
First contact, in the highlands of Irian Jaya
The intensive exploration of West New Guinea started in the early years of this century. It was interrupted by World War I and resumed afterwards. Apart from a large scale programme undertaken by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies, it included expeditions by British and German explorers. Many among them were scholars who investigated the local populations, fauna, geography, and geology, with a view to the colonial valorisation of th…
Introduction: Change and conflict in Papua new guinea land and resource rights
(1997). Introduction: Change and conflict in Papua new guinea land and resource rights. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 507-527
Colonial land law in dutch new guinea
Amendments proposed, in 1955, to the section of the New Guinea Act dealing with the recognition and alienation of land under indigenous tenure in Dutch New Guinea led to open debate. Orthodox views on the land rights of colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies, and the criticisms levelled at the colonial administration by the distinguished legal expert, C. van Vollenhoven, provide a context for appreciating the debate over land law in Dutch New…
The other Western Highlands
This paper deals with the ways of life obtaining in the western half of the Central Highlands of western New Guinea at the eve of the colonial era. It analyses headmanship and the disposal of the fruits of intensive agriculture making use of the Great Men – Leader – Big Man typology conceptualised by Godelier and Lemonnier in their analyses of east New Guinea Highlands ways of life. While Ekagi-me, living near the Paniai lakes, conformed to a Big…
De Papoea: What's in a name?1
The German Eipo Research Project
This paper reviews the results of the research carried out that a group of German scholars and scientists has carried out with the Eipo, in the eastern highlands of West Papua, Indonesia. Their work started in the mid- 1970’s and has not been completely finalised so far. The research aimed at a comprehensive documentation of the way of life of the Eipo. This aim required the interdisciplinarity that characterised the project, although anthropolog…
Wealth Items in the Western Highlands of West Papua
n Contains fulltext :\n 64363-OA.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The Other Western Highlands
Modern Papuan activists
Review of: Victor Kaisiëpo Msn, Een perspectief voor Papoea: Het verhaal van mijn leven en mijn strijd. Recorded and edited by Willem Campschreur. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2011, 272 pp. ISBN 9789460221149. Price: EUR 19.50 (paperback). Charles Farhadian (ed.), De getuigenissen: Papoea. Zuidland: [Lems], 2010, 240 pp. [Translation of The testimony project Papua: A collection of personal histories in West Papua. Jayapura: Deiyai, 2007.] ISBN 9789…
Government in Wanggulam
J an P ouwer's Field Research in the S tar M ountains, W est N ew G uinea
The Dutch Retreat from New Guinea: Two Accounts
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnton PloegRadboud University
Herman van Roijen 1905–1991: Een diplomaat van klasse
Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
History (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Ethnology (13 works) · New guinea (13 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works)