Christine Dureau
Biographic Data
| ID | 628245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Dureau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Dureau |
| SIGNATURE | DUREAU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation
The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later w…
Afterword: Porosity, corporeality and the divine
Focusing on porosity, embodiment and the relationship to the divine highlights the wider pertinence of the concept of dividual personhood. The dividual has conventionally been opposed to the individual as an alternative conceptualisation of personhood (e.g. Although this is widely acknowledged as a heuristic, the literature repeatedly reifies it, treating different cultural regions and/or historical periods as essentially dividualist or individua…
‘Greater love …’: Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood
In recent years, the relationship between conversion, culture and personhood has been a key issue in anthropological approaches to Christianity. From one perspective, the force of Christian ideation stimulates reflection on existential and ontological truths. Working with recently converted Urapmin people, Joel For Robbins (2007), with whom the individualising argument is most famously associated, anthropologists have been prone to 'continuity th…
Pollution and Intimacy in a Transcendent Ethics of Care: A Case of Aged-care in India
In India, where children's care of ageing parents is seen as practical and sacred, animated by notions of seva (selfless service), the outsourcing of elder care causes considerable concern. Meanwhile, carers' work in old-age homes is treated as transactional, and their moral claims about this work are either overlooked or criticised. While gendered, socio-economic circumstances compel the women we discuss in this paper to care-work at an old-age …
The death of a key symbol
Sherry Ortner's concept of key symbols has been a mainstay in symbolic studies since its publication in 1973, but it has been little developed since then. This paper proffers temporality as a significant, but largely overlooked element of some key symbols. A case study of an old-woman's death on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands, demonstrates how key symbols may emerge and decline rapidly in contexts of uncertainty and political negotiation
Translating Love
This article addresses relationships between personal experience and cross-cultural understanding of maternal love. I analyze claims of mutual maternal understanding by women on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands, highlighting the contexts in which they expressed love in compassionate terms and the interplay of fieldwork intersubjectivity. Although assumptions of a priori emotional comprehension grounded in apparently similar experiences are problema…
Converting Birth on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands
The politics of knowledge: Science, race and evolution in Asia and the pacific
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relations…
Decreed affinities: Nationhood and the western Solomon Islands
Among the many consequences of colonisation in the Pacific were the twin processes of conjunction and separation of indigenous societies following the establishment of colonial boundaries. In the Solomon Islands, both occurred. Particularly in the northwest, earlier connections were reduced (although not eliminated) following the establishment of the British‐German boundary between the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) and German (later…
Nobody asked the mother: Women and maternity on Simbo, western Solomon Islands
‘I don't believe you. They say that because they're infertile ... The life of a mother on Simbo is very hard but if I have no children, then why am I on this earth? And my life will be empty. 1 Look at Zila 2 [a woman in an infertile marriage] who has nothing except cats and adopted animals. Will her cats carry her coffin or cry for her? But my children stop me from doing all the things I need and want to do in the church and the UCWF and the lin…
Death, gender and regeneration: A critique of Maurice Bloch
1991). Death, gender and regeneration: a critique of Maurice Bloch. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 24-44
Translating Love
This article addresses relationships between personal experience and cross-cultural understanding of maternal love. I analyze claims of mutual maternal understanding by women on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands, highlighting the contexts in which they expressed love in compassionate terms and the interplay of fieldwork intersubjectivity. Although assumptions of a priori emotional comprehension grounded in apparently similar experiences are problema…
Decreed affinities: Nationhood and the western Solomon Islands
Among the many consequences of colonisation in the Pacific were the twin processes of conjunction and separation of indigenous societies following the establishment of colonial boundaries. In the Solomon Islands, both occurred. Particularly in the northwest, earlier connections were reduced (although not eliminated) following the establishment of the British‐German boundary between the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) and German (later…
The politics of knowledge: Science, race and evolution in Asia and the pacific
Death, gender and regeneration: A critique of Maurice Bloch
1991). Death, gender and regeneration: a critique of Maurice Bloch. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 24-44
Pollution and Intimacy in a Transcendent Ethics of Care: A Case of Aged-care in India
In India, where children's care of ageing parents is seen as practical and sacred, animated by notions of seva (selfless service), the outsourcing of elder care causes considerable concern. Meanwhile, carers' work in old-age homes is treated as transactional, and their moral claims about this work are either overlooked or criticised. While gendered, socio-economic circumstances compel the women we discuss in this paper to care-work at an old-age …
Death, gender and regeneration: A critique of Maurice Bloch
1991). Death, gender and regeneration: a critique of Maurice Bloch. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 24-44
Nobody asked the mother: Women and maternity on Simbo, western Solomon Islands
‘I don't believe you. They say that because they're infertile ... The life of a mother on Simbo is very hard but if I have no children, then why am I on this earth? And my life will be empty. 1 Look at Zila 2 [a woman in an infertile marriage] who has nothing except cats and adopted animals. Will her cats carry her coffin or cry for her? But my children stop me from doing all the things I need and want to do in the church and the UCWF and the lin…
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relations…
Decreed affinities: Nationhood and the western Solomon Islands
Among the many consequences of colonisation in the Pacific were the twin processes of conjunction and separation of indigenous societies following the establishment of colonial boundaries. In the Solomon Islands, both occurred. Particularly in the northwest, earlier connections were reduced (although not eliminated) following the establishment of the British‐German boundary between the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) and German (later…
The politics of knowledge: Science, race and evolution in Asia and the pacific
Converting Birth on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands
The death of a key symbol
Sherry Ortner's concept of key symbols has been a mainstay in symbolic studies since its publication in 1973, but it has been little developed since then. This paper proffers temporality as a significant, but largely overlooked element of some key symbols. A case study of an old-woman's death on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands, demonstrates how key symbols may emerge and decline rapidly in contexts of uncertainty and political negotiation
Translating Love
This article addresses relationships between personal experience and cross-cultural understanding of maternal love. I analyze claims of mutual maternal understanding by women on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands, highlighting the contexts in which they expressed love in compassionate terms and the interplay of fieldwork intersubjectivity. Although assumptions of a priori emotional comprehension grounded in apparently similar experiences are problema…
Pollution and Intimacy in a Transcendent Ethics of Care: A Case of Aged-care in India
In India, where children's care of ageing parents is seen as practical and sacred, animated by notions of seva (selfless service), the outsourcing of elder care causes considerable concern. Meanwhile, carers' work in old-age homes is treated as transactional, and their moral claims about this work are either overlooked or criticised. While gendered, socio-economic circumstances compel the women we discuss in this paper to care-work at an old-age …
Afterword: Porosity, corporeality and the divine
Focusing on porosity, embodiment and the relationship to the divine highlights the wider pertinence of the concept of dividual personhood. The dividual has conventionally been opposed to the individual as an alternative conceptualisation of personhood (e.g. Although this is widely acknowledged as a heuristic, the literature repeatedly reifies it, treating different cultural regions and/or historical periods as essentially dividualist or individua…
‘Greater love …’: Methodist missionaries, self-sacrifice and relational personhood
In recent years, the relationship between conversion, culture and personhood has been a key issue in anthropological approaches to Christianity. From one perspective, the force of Christian ideation stimulates reflection on existential and ontological truths. Working with recently converted Urapmin people, Joel For Robbins (2007), with whom the individualising argument is most famously associated, anthropologists have been prone to 'continuity th…
Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation
The Ethnographic Experiment: A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later w…
Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)