Wayne Fife
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne Fife |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Fife |
| SIGNATURE | FIFE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Along the Empirical Road: An Extended Review of Michael Jackson’s Paths Toward a Clearing
Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact, by Rebecca Gibson
Gibson, Rebecca. Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact. New York and London: (Pivot Series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 141 pages. An article from journal Anthropologica (The Bureaucratic Practices of Migration), on Érudit
Counting as a Qualitative Method: Grappling with the Reliability Issue in Ethnographic Research
Fieldwork
Fieldwork involves long‐term research in which the investigator spends an intensive amount of time inquiring into the way of life of a specific human population. Used properly, it can result in extremely useful portraits of little‐known, misunderstood, or fully unknown ways of life. The main goal is to learn an inside point of view, or what it is like to live as a member of a specific sociocultural formation. Instead of relying on the statistical…
Fly Fishing as Religion: Literature as a Form of Public Consciousness
Focusing on the question of how to be in the world, ontological religion often comes in forms that look very little like our standard expectations for religious institutions. Intuitive, experiential, and often taking a mystical bent, this direct kind of religious practice nevertheless needs guideposts for its participants. The literature of fly fishing serves as one such guidepost, offering a forum for a kind of spiritual public consciousness tha…
Internal Borders as Naturalized Political Instruments
This article explores how internal borders can become naturalized political instruments that are heavily implicated in the extension of state control over rural populations and rural landscapes. It shows how seemingly innocuous instruments such as national parks and hunting and sport fishing regulations can be utilized to create essentialist ecological arguments for the extension of class and urban-based centers of power. Specific examples of the…
Souvenirs and cultural politics in Santiago de Compostela
This article focuses on the visual landscape created by displays of souvenirs for sale in the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela. It demonstrates that images of St. James and other Catholic symbols compete with more recent representations of the pilgrimage to Santiago, including the modernist mascot O Peregrn created for the 1993 Holy Year. Equally prevalent are souvenirs that constitute reflections on Galician culture, ranging from folkl…
The cultural politics of tourism and heritage in Galicia: Anthropological perspectives
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Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods
O pen up any introductory textbook in sociocultural anthropology and you will find a section explaining the importance of the concept of holism. The author will typically go on to explain that anthropologists are generally more interested in gaining an understanding of how human lives “make sense” within the contexts in which they live than we are in arriving at universal generalizations or “laws” regarding human behavior. This is particularly tr…
Analysis
M any researchers find that the end of the fieldwork phase of the project is not the end of their questions about how to go about completing the study. The research project should be thought of as something that includes both the analysis of the information gathered during fieldwork and a consideration of its theoretical implications (the subjects of this chapter and chapter 9). What good is all of this evidence if it sits on a shelf (or in a dra…
Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond
Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyz
Semantic Slippage as a New Aspect of Authenticity: Viking Tourism on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
In this article Fife examines contemporary use of Viking sites in Newfoundland to explore how a scientifically established archaeological site has served as the basis for an elaborate construction of heritage sites in an economically depressed region of Canada. He suggests a new theory of semantic slippage to account for the process by which original "signs" are turned into popularly acceptable modernist representations of a Viking past. Numerous…
Penetrating Types: Conflating Modernist and Postmodernist Tourism on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
This article explores the conflation of modernism and postmodernism at two tourist sites involving the representation of a Viking past in Newfoundland, Canada. The archaeologically based site at L'Anse aux Meadows is compared to the purpose-built tourist site of Norstead, and both are analysed in terms of the hybridity that occurs within each location. Rationalist versus aesthetic forms of authenticity are considered in relation to the constructi…
The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place
Owain Jones and Paul Cloke, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002, xii + 252 pages (paper).Reviewer: Wayne Fife Memorial University of NewfoundlandI originally encountered this as part of a reading group at Memorial University. I took extensive notes on it before we met and what follows is to be taken as my own opinion, but that opinion has inevitably been influenced by the lively discussion that this work engendered among our group. Reaction to the ra…
Creating the Moral Body: Missionaries and the Technology of Power in Early Papua New Guinea
British missionaries went to Papua New Guinea in order to create new moral body: Christian character that would fit into Great Britain's colonial world. Education by missionaries became, in an interpretation paralleling the theories of Michel Foucault, of power for imposing particular forms of social discipline upon individuals so that they might want to become part of the institutional relationships that favored Christianity and colonialism at t…
Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa
Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa. Paul Stoller New York: Routledge, 1995. 226 pp
The Look of Rationality and the Bureaucratization of Consciousness in Papua New Guinea
Taussig (1993), in his Mimesis and Alterity, offers a useful concept for understanding cultural creativity in Pacific region in light of colonial relationships (also see Thomas 1991 and 1993). It is the mimetic faculty; nature that culture uses to create second nature, faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become other (Taussig 1993:xiii). Taussig explains that although this human faculty is universal and ubiqu…
Education in Papua New Guinea: The Hidden Curriculum of a New Moral Order
To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain
David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America s working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority concerns for affordable health care, education, environmental protection, and a foreign policy consistent with American democratic ideals. Here, in his autobiography, Obey looks back on his journ…
Education in Papua New Guinea: The Hidden Curriculum of a New Moral Order
IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, parents' and students' expectations regarding the connection between education and the cash economy contradict the social and economic experience of adult life. Drawing on research from three urban-oriented primary schools in the province of West New Britain, I show that teachers unknowingly promote a new moral order through the hidden curriculum of classroom instruction. This moral order celebrates the "modern life" of urban…
A certain kind of education: Education, culture and society in West New Britain
Crossing boundaries: Dissolution as a secondary message of education in Papua New Guinea
"A Conservative Generation of Students? Comments on "Anthropology's Other Press
"Comment on Turner's "Physical Anthropology as Anthropology
Creating the Moral Body: Missionaries and the Technology of Power in Early Papua New Guinea
British missionaries went to Papua New Guinea in order to create new moral body: Christian character that would fit into Great Britain's colonial world. Education by missionaries became, in an interpretation paralleling the theories of Michel Foucault, of power for imposing particular forms of social discipline upon individuals so that they might want to become part of the institutional relationships that favored Christianity and colonialism at t…
Semantic Slippage as a New Aspect of Authenticity: Viking Tourism on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
In this article Fife examines contemporary use of Viking sites in Newfoundland to explore how a scientifically established archaeological site has served as the basis for an elaborate construction of heritage sites in an economically depressed region of Canada. He suggests a new theory of semantic slippage to account for the process by which original "signs" are turned into popularly acceptable modernist representations of a Viking past. Numerous…
The Look of Rationality and the Bureaucratization of Consciousness in Papua New Guinea
Taussig (1993), in his Mimesis and Alterity, offers a useful concept for understanding cultural creativity in Pacific region in light of colonial relationships (also see Thomas 1991 and 1993). It is the mimetic faculty; nature that culture uses to create second nature, faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become other (Taussig 1993:xiii). Taussig explains that although this human faculty is universal and ubiqu…
Penetrating Types: Conflating Modernist and Postmodernist Tourism on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
This article explores the conflation of modernism and postmodernism at two tourist sites involving the representation of a Viking past in Newfoundland, Canada. The archaeologically based site at L'Anse aux Meadows is compared to the purpose-built tourist site of Norstead, and both are analysed in terms of the hybridity that occurs within each location. Rationalist versus aesthetic forms of authenticity are considered in relation to the constructi…
A certain kind of education: Education, culture and society in West New Britain
Crossing boundaries: Dissolution as a secondary message of education in Papua New Guinea
Souvenirs and cultural politics in Santiago de Compostela
This article focuses on the visual landscape created by displays of souvenirs for sale in the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela. It demonstrates that images of St. James and other Catholic symbols compete with more recent representations of the pilgrimage to Santiago, including the modernist mascot O Peregrn created for the 1993 Holy Year. Equally prevalent are souvenirs that constitute reflections on Galician culture, ranging from folkl…
The cultural politics of tourism and heritage in Galicia: Anthropological perspectives
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Education in Papua New Guinea: The Hidden Curriculum of a New Moral Order
IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, parents' and students' expectations regarding the connection between education and the cash economy contradict the social and economic experience of adult life. Drawing on research from three urban-oriented primary schools in the province of West New Britain, I show that teachers unknowingly promote a new moral order through the hidden curriculum of classroom instruction. This moral order celebrates the "modern life" of urban…
"A Conservative Generation of Students? Comments on "Anthropology's Other Press
"Comment on Turner's "Physical Anthropology as Anthropology
"A Conservative Generation of Students? Comments on "Anthropology's Other Press
Crossing boundaries: Dissolution as a secondary message of education in Papua New Guinea
A certain kind of education: Education, culture and society in West New Britain
Education in Papua New Guinea: The Hidden Curriculum of a New Moral Order
To Remember the Faces of the Dead: The Plentitude of Memory in Southwestern New Britain
David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America s working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the Appropriations Committee and is positioned to pursue his priority concerns for affordable health care, education, environmental protection, and a foreign policy consistent with American democratic ideals. Here, in his autobiography, Obey looks back on his journ…
Education in Papua New Guinea: The Hidden Curriculum of a New Moral Order
IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA, parents' and students' expectations regarding the connection between education and the cash economy contradict the social and economic experience of adult life. Drawing on research from three urban-oriented primary schools in the province of West New Britain, I show that teachers unknowingly promote a new moral order through the hidden curriculum of classroom instruction. This moral order celebrates the "modern life" of urban…
The Look of Rationality and the Bureaucratization of Consciousness in Papua New Guinea
Taussig (1993), in his Mimesis and Alterity, offers a useful concept for understanding cultural creativity in Pacific region in light of colonial relationships (also see Thomas 1991 and 1993). It is the mimetic faculty; nature that culture uses to create second nature, faculty to copy, imitate, make models, explore difference, yield into and become other (Taussig 1993:xiii). Taussig explains that although this human faculty is universal and ubiqu…
Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa
Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power, and the Hauka in West Africa. Paul Stoller New York: Routledge, 1995. 226 pp
Creating the Moral Body: Missionaries and the Technology of Power in Early Papua New Guinea
British missionaries went to Papua New Guinea in order to create new moral body: Christian character that would fit into Great Britain's colonial world. Education by missionaries became, in an interpretation paralleling the theories of Michel Foucault, of power for imposing particular forms of social discipline upon individuals so that they might want to become part of the institutional relationships that favored Christianity and colonialism at t…
The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place
Owain Jones and Paul Cloke, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002, xii + 252 pages (paper).Reviewer: Wayne Fife Memorial University of NewfoundlandI originally encountered this as part of a reading group at Memorial University. I took extensive notes on it before we met and what follows is to be taken as my own opinion, but that opinion has inevitably been influenced by the lively discussion that this work engendered among our group. Reaction to the ra…
Semantic Slippage as a New Aspect of Authenticity: Viking Tourism on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
In this article Fife examines contemporary use of Viking sites in Newfoundland to explore how a scientifically established archaeological site has served as the basis for an elaborate construction of heritage sites in an economically depressed region of Canada. He suggests a new theory of semantic slippage to account for the process by which original "signs" are turned into popularly acceptable modernist representations of a Viking past. Numerous…
Penetrating Types: Conflating Modernist and Postmodernist Tourism on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland
This article explores the conflation of modernism and postmodernism at two tourist sites involving the representation of a Viking past in Newfoundland, Canada. The archaeologically based site at L'Anse aux Meadows is compared to the purpose-built tourist site of Norstead, and both are analysed in terms of the hybridity that occurs within each location. Rationalist versus aesthetic forms of authenticity are considered in relation to the constructi…
Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods
O pen up any introductory textbook in sociocultural anthropology and you will find a section explaining the importance of the concept of holism. The author will typically go on to explain that anthropologists are generally more interested in gaining an understanding of how human lives “make sense” within the contexts in which they live than we are in arriving at universal generalizations or “laws” regarding human behavior. This is particularly tr…
Analysis
M any researchers find that the end of the fieldwork phase of the project is not the end of their questions about how to go about completing the study. The research project should be thought of as something that includes both the analysis of the information gathered during fieldwork and a consideration of its theoretical implications (the subjects of this chapter and chapter 9). What good is all of this evidence if it sits on a shelf (or in a dra…
Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond
Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyz
Souvenirs and cultural politics in Santiago de Compostela
This article focuses on the visual landscape created by displays of souvenirs for sale in the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela. It demonstrates that images of St. James and other Catholic symbols compete with more recent representations of the pilgrimage to Santiago, including the modernist mascot O Peregrn created for the 1993 Holy Year. Equally prevalent are souvenirs that constitute reflections on Galician culture, ranging from folkl…
The cultural politics of tourism and heritage in Galicia: Anthropological perspectives
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Internal Borders as Naturalized Political Instruments
This article explores how internal borders can become naturalized political instruments that are heavily implicated in the extension of state control over rural populations and rural landscapes. It shows how seemingly innocuous instruments such as national parks and hunting and sport fishing regulations can be utilized to create essentialist ecological arguments for the extension of class and urban-based centers of power. Specific examples of the…
Fly Fishing as Religion: Literature as a Form of Public Consciousness
Focusing on the question of how to be in the world, ontological religion often comes in forms that look very little like our standard expectations for religious institutions. Intuitive, experiential, and often taking a mystical bent, this direct kind of religious practice nevertheless needs guideposts for its participants. The literature of fly fishing serves as one such guidepost, offering a forum for a kind of spiritual public consciousness tha…
Fieldwork
Fieldwork involves long‐term research in which the investigator spends an intensive amount of time inquiring into the way of life of a specific human population. Used properly, it can result in extremely useful portraits of little‐known, misunderstood, or fully unknown ways of life. The main goal is to learn an inside point of view, or what it is like to live as a member of a specific sociocultural formation. Instead of relying on the statistical…
Counting as a Qualitative Method: Grappling with the Reliability Issue in Ethnographic Research
Along the Empirical Road: An Extended Review of Michael Jackson’s Paths Toward a Clearing
Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact, by Rebecca Gibson
Gibson, Rebecca. Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact. New York and London: (Pivot Series) Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 141 pages. An article from journal Anthropologica (The Bureaucratic Practices of Migration), on Érudit
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