Anna‐karina Hermkens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna‐karina Hermkens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna‐karina |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermkens |
| SIGNATURE | HERMKENS A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender Equality Theology and Essentialism: Catholic Responses to Gender‐Based Violence and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
This paper addresses how Christianity, and in particular Catholicism, is deployed in response to gender‐based violence (GBV) in Papua New Guinea. It provides insights into the various ways the Catholic community, Church, and its clergy respond to and manage GBV. Focusing on a case study in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, the article reveals how Gender Equality Theology is used and received to address GBV in this region.…
Gender and Material Culture
Despite the fact that both gender and material culture have been crucial to the articulation of anthropological debates and theory, their relationship has received relatively little anthropological attention. Only in the 1990s did there arise a renewed interest in material culture informed by theoretical concerns with issues such as gender. Before this period, scholars mainly focused on non‐Western “art” made by men, with women's creative product…
The Mothers’ Union goes on strike: Women, tapa cloth and Christianity in a Papua New Guinea society
This paper explores the story of the formation and subsequent activities of a church women's group in Maisin villages and women's experiences of Christianity more broadly, in relation to the changing production and uses of traditional bark cloth ( tapa ), a signature women's product which has become a marker of Maisin identity. While the influence of the local Mothers’ Union has waxed and waned over the past 60 years, tapa cloth has had a continu…
Mediations of Cloth: Tapa and Personhood among the Maisin in PNG
Tapa (or barkcloth), which is made from the outer bark of specific trees, is intimately interwoven with past and present socialities across O ceania. The cloths have been used to decorate, wrap, cover, protect, and carry the human body, as exchange valuables and commodities, in land claims, and as indexes and embodiments of ancestral power. This article explores the complexities of personhood in O ceania by focusing on the making and ceremonial u…
Like Moses Who Led His People to the Promised Land: Nation‐ and State‐Building in Bougainville
This article focuses on indigenous religious beliefs and practices in relation to nationalism and state‐building in conflict and post‐conflict Bougainville. Since the early seventies, people of the island of B ougainville have sought to secede from P apua N ew G uinea and constitute a separate sovereign state. The almost ten year long secessionist struggle between the B ougainville R evolutionary A rmy ( BRA ) and the PNG D efence F orce ( PNGDF …
Light Intervention. Lessons from Bougainville
n Contains fulltext :\n 101206.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Josephine's Journey: Gender‐based Violence and Marian Devotion in Urban Papua New Guinea
This article deals with how, in the urban setting of Madang, Papua New Guinea, Marian devotion is deployed in response to domestic and gender‐based violence. While providing insight into the lived religious experiences of Catholic women living in Madang, this article shows how Mary empowers her followers to resist violence, yet, at the same time, paradoxically, is instrumental in sanctioning women to tolerate violence. Josephine's ‘journey of vio…
The power of Mary in Papua New Guinea
n Contains fulltext :\n 56046.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The power of Mary in Papua New Guinea
n Contains fulltext :\n 56046.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The power of Mary in Papua New Guinea
n Contains fulltext :\n 56046.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Josephine's Journey: Gender‐based Violence and Marian Devotion in Urban Papua New Guinea
This article deals with how, in the urban setting of Madang, Papua New Guinea, Marian devotion is deployed in response to domestic and gender‐based violence. While providing insight into the lived religious experiences of Catholic women living in Madang, this article shows how Mary empowers her followers to resist violence, yet, at the same time, paradoxically, is instrumental in sanctioning women to tolerate violence. Josephine's ‘journey of vio…
Light Intervention. Lessons from Bougainville
n Contains fulltext :\n 101206.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Like Moses Who Led His People to the Promised Land: Nation‐ and State‐Building in Bougainville
This article focuses on indigenous religious beliefs and practices in relation to nationalism and state‐building in conflict and post‐conflict Bougainville. Since the early seventies, people of the island of B ougainville have sought to secede from P apua N ew G uinea and constitute a separate sovereign state. The almost ten year long secessionist struggle between the B ougainville R evolutionary A rmy ( BRA ) and the PNG D efence F orce ( PNGDF …
Mediations of Cloth: Tapa and Personhood among the Maisin in PNG
Tapa (or barkcloth), which is made from the outer bark of specific trees, is intimately interwoven with past and present socialities across O ceania. The cloths have been used to decorate, wrap, cover, protect, and carry the human body, as exchange valuables and commodities, in land claims, and as indexes and embodiments of ancestral power. This article explores the complexities of personhood in O ceania by focusing on the making and ceremonial u…
The Mothers’ Union goes on strike: Women, tapa cloth and Christianity in a Papua New Guinea society
This paper explores the story of the formation and subsequent activities of a church women's group in Maisin villages and women's experiences of Christianity more broadly, in relation to the changing production and uses of traditional bark cloth ( tapa ), a signature women's product which has become a marker of Maisin identity. While the influence of the local Mothers’ Union has waxed and waned over the past 60 years, tapa cloth has had a continu…
Gender and Material Culture
Despite the fact that both gender and material culture have been crucial to the articulation of anthropological debates and theory, their relationship has received relatively little anthropological attention. Only in the 1990s did there arise a renewed interest in material culture informed by theoretical concerns with issues such as gender. Before this period, scholars mainly focused on non‐Western “art” made by men, with women's creative product…
Gender Equality Theology and Essentialism: Catholic Responses to Gender‐Based Violence and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
This paper addresses how Christianity, and in particular Catholicism, is deployed in response to gender‐based violence (GBV) in Papua New Guinea. It provides insights into the various ways the Catholic community, Church, and its clergy respond to and manage GBV. Focusing on a case study in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, the article reveals how Gender Equality Theology is used and received to address GBV in this region.…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · History (4 works) · New guinea (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)