Brigitta Hauser‐schäublin
Biographic Data
| ID | 78573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitta Hauser‐schäublin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitta |
| FAMILY NAME | Hauser‐schäublin |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÄUBLIN B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Provenienzforschung zwischen politisierter Wahrheitsfindung und systemischem Ablenkungsmanöver
Ausgangspunkt fr meinen Beitrag bilden mehrere Aufstze, die ich zwischen 2018 und 2020 in verschiedenen Zeitungen verffentlicht habe. 1 In ihnen habe ich gegen eine pauschale Verurteilung von ethnografischem Sammeln whrend der Kolonialzeit und ein Einstimmen in den domi
Women in Kararau
The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women's lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, t…
Transcultural journeys
Artefacts have always been part of inter- and transcultural journeys in the Sepik. People and artefacts had been continuously moving throughout the area in pre-colonial New Guinea due to migrations, exchange and plundering. However, the scope and the quality of these journeys changed fundamentally when the process of disembedding of artefacts started with the collecting activities of explorers in the colonial area. Against the backdrop of the tra…
Introduction. The Power of Indigeneity
This volume analyses the way in which the legal category of “indigenous peoples” and, consequently, the notion of indigeneity as propagated by international conventions are understood, deployed and implemented by different actors – national as well as regional and local – in Indonesia. The first two chapters, therefore, discuss the formation of the several different conventions dealing with “indigenous” or “tribal” peoples and the recognition of …
The fridge in the forest’
The Dancers Who Became Transformed into Wood
Borrowing, exchanging, and violent appropriation of ritual artefacts have been actions that have contributed to the development of cultural diversity within a particular frame of variations in the Middle Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. The mai masks of the Iatmul, already mentioned by Bateson, are the well-documented result of a violent appropriation, as indigenous evidence shows. However, the 'model' which served for the mai were ritual dancer…
Protecting Siam’s Heritage (Baker)
This work is a book review considering the title Protecting Siam’s Heritage edited by Chris Baker
From Homo Politicus to Immobilized Icon
This article analyses Clifford Geertz's shift from a social scientist who participated during the Cold War in policy-serving research on modernization in Indonesia to an anthropologist who focused on meaning and treated culture as an ensemble of texts to be read over the shoulder of the native. This shift becomes most evident in the different ways in which Geertz represented the social and political organization of the economy in Java and Bali in…
Between Harmony and Discrimination
Between Harmony and Discrimination explores the varying expressions of religious practices and the intertwined, shifting interreligious relationships of the peoples of Bali and Lombok. As religion has become a progressively more important identity marker in the 21st century, the shared histories and practices of peoples of both similar and differing faiths are renegotiated, reconfirmed or reconfigured. This renegotiation, inspired by Hindu or Isl…
The enduring agency of borderland regimes
The listing of the ruins of the ancient Khmer temple of Preah Vihear on the Thai/Cambodian border as a UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cambodia in 2008 stirred up a century-old conflict about the ownership of these monuments and the boundary between the two nations. The demarcation of geographic boundaries took place at the instigation of the French colonial power in the early-20th century and was, subsquently, challenged by Thailand. Over time, th…
Adat and Indigeneity in Indonesia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Comment on Lansing/de Vet’s paper
The diversion of the village gods
Royal edicts inscribed on copper plates were addressed to the villagers of Julah on the north coast of Bali; they date back to the 10th century. Since then, these artefacts have undergone many transformations in function and meaning. They were kept as sacred heirlooms in the village temple of Julah until recently. However, these copper plates were stolen by a man from a neighbouring village in 2002 and transported to Java in order to sell them as…
Land Donations and the Gift of Water. On Temple Landlordism and Irrigation Agriculture in Pre-Colonial Bali
Burials, Texts and Rituals
proves a past very different from the popular assumptions of "Bali Aga".
Temple and King
This article discusses the intricate relationship between economics, temples, rituals, and king and kingship in early Bali. So far the anthropological representation of the organization of the pre-colonial or early colonial Balinese state and society has oscillated between the 'theatre state' in which 'power served pomp' and the alleged disjunction of the state from an economy based for the most part on irrigated agriculture (rice). This article …
On Irrigation and the Balinese State
The politics of sacred space; Using conceptual models of space for socio-political transformations in Bali
Austronesian aboriginality or the ritual organization of the state? A controversy on the political dimension of temple networks in early bali
Since early colonial times, Dutch government officials as well as anthropologists have made a distinction between what have been called “Bali Aga”, the allegedly aboriginal inhabitants of Bali (Indonesia), and those inhabitants associated with title‐bearing groups oriented towards royal courts and brahmana ritual specialists. While the former have been described as constituting a society characterized by equality and democracy, the latter have be…
The Precolonial Balinese State Reconsidered
The social organization of irrigation agriculture is an important part of many theories of the origin of the state. Ever since Marx described the organization and control of irrigation agriculture as a central task of rulers in Oriental societies, scholars have debated whether extensive irrigation could have existed in preindustrial societies without state intervention. In the Balinese case, Geertzs theater state and Lansings democratic irrigatio…
The Thrill of the Line, the String, and the Frond, or why the Abelam are a non‐cloth culture
With few exceptions, weaving was traditionally unknown in Oceania. Yet soft, pliable bark cloth — often richly decorated — was produced, and used like textiles, especially in Polynesia. This cloth was artistically draped around objects and people and in turn ritually removed. These cloth cultures are based on a system of aesthetic values radically different from those of inland groups especially in New Guinea. This article demonstrates that withi…
The New Guinea Highlands
Women's Status in Egalitarian Society
The analysis of women's status in egalitarian society is inseparable from the analysis of egalitarian social-economic structure as a whole, and concepts based on the hierarchical structure of our society distort both. To see relations of power and property that characterize our society as present in band societies, although extremely weak, obscures the qualitatively different relations that obtained when, in place of dyadic lines of dependency, e…
Women's Status in Egalitarian Society
The analysis of women's status in egalitarian society is inseparable from the analysis of egalitarian social-economic structure as a whole, and concepts based on the hierarchical structure of our society distort both. To see relations of power and property that characterize our society as present in band societies, although extremely weak, obscures the qualitatively different relations that obtained when, in place of dyadic lines of dependency, e…
The Precolonial Balinese State Reconsidered
The social organization of irrigation agriculture is an important part of many theories of the origin of the state. Ever since Marx described the organization and control of irrigation agriculture as a central task of rulers in Oriental societies, scholars have debated whether extensive irrigation could have existed in preindustrial societies without state intervention. In the Balinese case, Geertzs theater state and Lansings democratic irrigatio…
The New Guinea Highlands
The fridge in the forest’
Temple and King
This article discusses the intricate relationship between economics, temples, rituals, and king and kingship in early Bali. So far the anthropological representation of the organization of the pre-colonial or early colonial Balinese state and society has oscillated between the 'theatre state' in which 'power served pomp' and the alleged disjunction of the state from an economy based for the most part on irrigated agriculture (rice). This article …
On Irrigation and the Balinese State
Austronesian aboriginality or the ritual organization of the state? A controversy on the political dimension of temple networks in early bali
Since early colonial times, Dutch government officials as well as anthropologists have made a distinction between what have been called “Bali Aga”, the allegedly aboriginal inhabitants of Bali (Indonesia), and those inhabitants associated with title‐bearing groups oriented towards royal courts and brahmana ritual specialists. While the former have been described as constituting a society characterized by equality and democracy, the latter have be…
Adat and Indigeneity in Indonesia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Land Donations and the Gift of Water. On Temple Landlordism and Irrigation Agriculture in Pre-Colonial Bali
The Dancers Who Became Transformed into Wood
Borrowing, exchanging, and violent appropriation of ritual artefacts have been actions that have contributed to the development of cultural diversity within a particular frame of variations in the Middle Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. The mai masks of the Iatmul, already mentioned by Bateson, are the well-documented result of a violent appropriation, as indigenous evidence shows. However, the 'model' which served for the mai were ritual dancer…
The politics of sacred space; Using conceptual models of space for socio-political transformations in Bali
Women in Kararau
The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women's lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, t…
The diversion of the village gods
Royal edicts inscribed on copper plates were addressed to the villagers of Julah on the north coast of Bali; they date back to the 10th century. Since then, these artefacts have undergone many transformations in function and meaning. They were kept as sacred heirlooms in the village temple of Julah until recently. However, these copper plates were stolen by a man from a neighbouring village in 2002 and transported to Java in order to sell them as…
Women's Status in Egalitarian Society
The analysis of women's status in egalitarian society is inseparable from the analysis of egalitarian social-economic structure as a whole, and concepts based on the hierarchical structure of our society distort both. To see relations of power and property that characterize our society as present in band societies, although extremely weak, obscures the qualitatively different relations that obtained when, in place of dyadic lines of dependency, e…
The New Guinea Highlands
The Thrill of the Line, the String, and the Frond, or why the Abelam are a non‐cloth culture
With few exceptions, weaving was traditionally unknown in Oceania. Yet soft, pliable bark cloth — often richly decorated — was produced, and used like textiles, especially in Polynesia. This cloth was artistically draped around objects and people and in turn ritually removed. These cloth cultures are based on a system of aesthetic values radically different from those of inland groups especially in New Guinea. This article demonstrates that withi…
The Precolonial Balinese State Reconsidered
The social organization of irrigation agriculture is an important part of many theories of the origin of the state. Ever since Marx described the organization and control of irrigation agriculture as a central task of rulers in Oriental societies, scholars have debated whether extensive irrigation could have existed in preindustrial societies without state intervention. In the Balinese case, Geertzs theater state and Lansings democratic irrigatio…
The politics of sacred space; Using conceptual models of space for socio-political transformations in Bali
Austronesian aboriginality or the ritual organization of the state? A controversy on the political dimension of temple networks in early bali
Since early colonial times, Dutch government officials as well as anthropologists have made a distinction between what have been called “Bali Aga”, the allegedly aboriginal inhabitants of Bali (Indonesia), and those inhabitants associated with title‐bearing groups oriented towards royal courts and brahmana ritual specialists. While the former have been described as constituting a society characterized by equality and democracy, the latter have be…
Temple and King
This article discusses the intricate relationship between economics, temples, rituals, and king and kingship in early Bali. So far the anthropological representation of the organization of the pre-colonial or early colonial Balinese state and society has oscillated between the 'theatre state' in which 'power served pomp' and the alleged disjunction of the state from an economy based for the most part on irrigated agriculture (rice). This article …
On Irrigation and the Balinese State
Burials, Texts and Rituals
proves a past very different from the popular assumptions of "Bali Aga".
Land Donations and the Gift of Water. On Temple Landlordism and Irrigation Agriculture in Pre-Colonial Bali
Comment on Lansing/de Vet’s paper
The diversion of the village gods
Royal edicts inscribed on copper plates were addressed to the villagers of Julah on the north coast of Bali; they date back to the 10th century. Since then, these artefacts have undergone many transformations in function and meaning. They were kept as sacred heirlooms in the village temple of Julah until recently. However, these copper plates were stolen by a man from a neighbouring village in 2002 and transported to Java in order to sell them as…
Between Harmony and Discrimination
Between Harmony and Discrimination explores the varying expressions of religious practices and the intertwined, shifting interreligious relationships of the peoples of Bali and Lombok. As religion has become a progressively more important identity marker in the 21st century, the shared histories and practices of peoples of both similar and differing faiths are renegotiated, reconfirmed or reconfigured. This renegotiation, inspired by Hindu or Isl…
The enduring agency of borderland regimes
The listing of the ruins of the ancient Khmer temple of Preah Vihear on the Thai/Cambodian border as a UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cambodia in 2008 stirred up a century-old conflict about the ownership of these monuments and the boundary between the two nations. The demarcation of geographic boundaries took place at the instigation of the French colonial power in the early-20th century and was, subsquently, challenged by Thailand. Over time, th…
Adat and Indigeneity in Indonesia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Protecting Siam’s Heritage (Baker)
This work is a book review considering the title Protecting Siam’s Heritage edited by Chris Baker
From Homo Politicus to Immobilized Icon
This article analyses Clifford Geertz's shift from a social scientist who participated during the Cold War in policy-serving research on modernization in Indonesia to an anthropologist who focused on meaning and treated culture as an ensemble of texts to be read over the shoulder of the native. This shift becomes most evident in the different ways in which Geertz represented the social and political organization of the economy in Java and Bali in…
Introduction. The Power of Indigeneity
This volume analyses the way in which the legal category of “indigenous peoples” and, consequently, the notion of indigeneity as propagated by international conventions are understood, deployed and implemented by different actors – national as well as regional and local – in Indonesia. The first two chapters, therefore, discuss the formation of the several different conventions dealing with “indigenous” or “tribal” peoples and the recognition of …
The fridge in the forest’
The Dancers Who Became Transformed into Wood
Borrowing, exchanging, and violent appropriation of ritual artefacts have been actions that have contributed to the development of cultural diversity within a particular frame of variations in the Middle Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. The mai masks of the Iatmul, already mentioned by Bateson, are the well-documented result of a violent appropriation, as indigenous evidence shows. However, the 'model' which served for the mai were ritual dancer…
Transcultural journeys
Artefacts have always been part of inter- and transcultural journeys in the Sepik. People and artefacts had been continuously moving throughout the area in pre-colonial New Guinea due to migrations, exchange and plundering. However, the scope and the quality of these journeys changed fundamentally when the process of disembedding of artefacts started with the collecting activities of explorers in the colonial area. Against the backdrop of the tra…
Women in Kararau
The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles among the neighbouring Tchambuli (Chambri) people. The author lived in the Iatmul village of Kararau in 1972/3 where she studied women's lives, works, and knowledge in detail. She revisited the Sepik in 2015 and 2017. The book, t…
Provenienzforschung zwischen politisierter Wahrheitsfindung und systemischem Ablenkungsmanöver
Ausgangspunkt fr meinen Beitrag bilden mehrere Aufstze, die ich zwischen 2018 und 2020 in verschiedenen Zeitungen verffentlicht habe. 1 In ihnen habe ich gegen eine pauschale Verurteilung von ethnografischem Sammeln whrend der Kolonialzeit und ein Einstimmen in den domi
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