M Maccarthy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 48331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Maccarthy |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Maccarthy |
| ASSINATURA | MACCARTHY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5908-5967 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field
Undertaking fieldwork in a remote location with limited health care and transportation comes with inherent risks, but doing so with a small child, in a place where understandings of illness and malice may be of a fundamentally different nature than in the ethnographer's home e, brings additional challenges and highlights the ethical dilemmas we may face in the field. This paper describes how continued fieldwork became impossibe when my infant son…
Born again, again: Witchcraft, Pentecostal conversions, and spiritual rebirth in the Trobriand Islands
In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), yoyowa (consistently translated as “witches” by English-speaking Trobrianders) are a constant threat, causing illness and death to those who arouse their envy or ire. While some women are widely known to be yoyowa, accusations are never made publicly, and there are no reprisals. People exercise caution when dealing with known or potential yoyowa, and always try to “make them happy,” in a common …
The rebirth of an old question: A comment on “Where are our ancestors? Rethinking Trobriand cosmology”
Jarillo et al. have offered an insightful rethinking of the role of baloma in reincarnation and the perpetuation of the dala lineage in Trobriand cosmology, based on an innovative and collaborative methodology, that counters the prevailing wisdom first published by Malinowski and reinforced in numerous disparate publications since. This comment reflects on Jarillo et al.'s argument and offers some additional comments about the role of rebirth in …
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples worldwide are affected by, and engage with, tourism in a number of ways. On the one hand, tourism may be oriented to facilitate direct interactions between Indigenous peoples and foreign tourists, often referred to as cultural or even “primitivist” tourism. In such cases, Indigenous people may or may not have much agency in how that interaction transpires and how much profit they directly derive. In other cases, such as ecotour…
Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
In this introduction we give a comparative overview of the situation of Pentecostalism, witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia. Our comparison between Africa and Melanesia starts off from the cultural specificity of witchcraft and sorcery, but simultaneously highlights how Christian evangelism “pentecostalizes” witchcraft and sorcery by making them universal concerns of life and death, good and evil
Doing away with Doba? Women’s Wealth and Shifting Values in Trobriand Mortuary Distributions
Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands
In August 2013, I attended a Revival Crusade in the Trobriand village of Omarakana. Pastors from various Pentecostal and evangelical churches had been invited from southern Kiriwina and the outer islands to preach, testify, and perform alter calls to engage the holy spirit and effect conversions for those ready to be born again. While these male pastors who were generally the figures leading prayers and alter calls were charismatic and compelling…
Chapter One. Ethnographic Context: The Place and the People
The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’
Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a long history of Christian missions, coupled with a recent ‘Revival’ brought about by the arrival of Pentecostal forms of worship, certain dances come to be key markers of particular moral positions. Primary among these is the Tap…
Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands
She examines the social dimensions of cross-cultural exchange in these four arenas (performance, village life, souvenirs, photography) to argue that cultural commodities are conceived of as singularities, a special category whose commodity status is downplayed in order to generate an increased sense of authenticity and to perpetuate the myth of a "primitive" economy and way of life more generally. In touristic encounters, experience itself is a s…
Like Playing a Game Where You Don't Know the Rules: Investing Meaning in Intercultural Cash Transactions Between Tourists and Trobriand Islanders
When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities in tourism contexts may appear to be simple market transactions, they are often in fact morally fraught sites of ambiguous interaction, invested with disparate meanings by different participants. Drawing on Bloch and Parry's…
More than grass skirts and feathers: Negotiating culture in the Trobriand Islands
A number of competing incentives are at work in determining how people actively choose to preserve or, alternatively, discard aspects of their ‘cultural heritage’. Cultural identity serves a social role in giving people a sense of unity and belonging; it may be used to political ends, as a means of imploring government support or special status; and it increasingly serves as a means of generating income and stimulating economic development throug…
Playing Politics with Yams: Food Security in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Food insecurity is a significant socioeconomic problem, particularly in developing countries where most households operate at the subsistence level. In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, where the fame that comes with being a skilled gardener who annually produces an enviable pile of yams, and where the series of exchanges that ensue are of the utmost social importance, current trends of reduced soil fertility and crop yields threaten not…
Like Playing a Game Where You Don't Know the Rules: Investing Meaning in Intercultural Cash Transactions Between Tourists and Trobriand Islanders
When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities in tourism contexts may appear to be simple market transactions, they are often in fact morally fraught sites of ambiguous interaction, invested with disparate meanings by different participants. Drawing on Bloch and Parry's…
More than grass skirts and feathers: Negotiating culture in the Trobriand Islands
A number of competing incentives are at work in determining how people actively choose to preserve or, alternatively, discard aspects of their ‘cultural heritage’. Cultural identity serves a social role in giving people a sense of unity and belonging; it may be used to political ends, as a means of imploring government support or special status; and it increasingly serves as a means of generating income and stimulating economic development throug…
Playing Politics with Yams: Food Security in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Food insecurity is a significant socioeconomic problem, particularly in developing countries where most households operate at the subsistence level. In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, where the fame that comes with being a skilled gardener who annually produces an enviable pile of yams, and where the series of exchanges that ensue are of the utmost social importance, current trends of reduced soil fertility and crop yields threaten not…
The rebirth of an old question: A comment on “Where are our ancestors? Rethinking Trobriand cosmology”
Jarillo et al. have offered an insightful rethinking of the role of baloma in reincarnation and the perpetuation of the dala lineage in Trobriand cosmology, based on an innovative and collaborative methodology, that counters the prevailing wisdom first published by Malinowski and reinforced in numerous disparate publications since. This comment reflects on Jarillo et al.'s argument and offers some additional comments about the role of rebirth in …
Playing Politics with Yams: Food Security in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Food insecurity is a significant socioeconomic problem, particularly in developing countries where most households operate at the subsistence level. In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, where the fame that comes with being a skilled gardener who annually produces an enviable pile of yams, and where the series of exchanges that ensue are of the utmost social importance, current trends of reduced soil fertility and crop yields threaten not…
More than grass skirts and feathers: Negotiating culture in the Trobriand Islands
A number of competing incentives are at work in determining how people actively choose to preserve or, alternatively, discard aspects of their ‘cultural heritage’. Cultural identity serves a social role in giving people a sense of unity and belonging; it may be used to political ends, as a means of imploring government support or special status; and it increasingly serves as a means of generating income and stimulating economic development throug…
Like Playing a Game Where You Don't Know the Rules: Investing Meaning in Intercultural Cash Transactions Between Tourists and Trobriand Islanders
When tourists visit cultural tourism destinations, the primary form of interaction between visitors and local residents is in the exchange of money for material objects and performances. While purchase of cultural commodities in tourism contexts may appear to be simple market transactions, they are often in fact morally fraught sites of ambiguous interaction, invested with disparate meanings by different participants. Drawing on Bloch and Parry's…
The morality of mweki: Performing sexuality in the ‘Islands of Love’
Trobriand dance is a key cultural expression and a means of communicating subjectivity in a number of ways: it expresses aspects of kinship, gender, morality, and ideas about modernity and primitivity. In a region with a long history of Christian missions, coupled with a recent ‘Revival’ brought about by the arrival of Pentecostal forms of worship, certain dances come to be key markers of particular moral positions. Primary among these is the Tap…
Making the Modern Primitive: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands
She examines the social dimensions of cross-cultural exchange in these four arenas (performance, village life, souvenirs, photography) to argue that cultural commodities are conceived of as singularities, a special category whose commodity status is downplayed in order to generate an increased sense of authenticity and to perpetuate the myth of a "primitive" economy and way of life more generally. In touristic encounters, experience itself is a s…
Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraft and Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
In this introduction we give a comparative overview of the situation of Pentecostalism, witchcraft and spiritual politics in Africa and Melanesia. Our comparison between Africa and Melanesia starts off from the cultural specificity of witchcraft and sorcery, but simultaneously highlights how Christian evangelism “pentecostalizes” witchcraft and sorcery by making them universal concerns of life and death, good and evil
Doing away with Doba? Women’s Wealth and Shifting Values in Trobriand Mortuary Distributions
Jesus Lives in Me: Pentecostal Conversions, Witchcraft Confessions, and Gendered Power in the Trobriand Islands
In August 2013, I attended a Revival Crusade in the Trobriand village of Omarakana. Pastors from various Pentecostal and evangelical churches had been invited from southern Kiriwina and the outer islands to preach, testify, and perform alter calls to engage the holy spirit and effect conversions for those ready to be born again. While these male pastors who were generally the figures leading prayers and alter calls were charismatic and compelling…
Chapter One. Ethnographic Context: The Place and the People
Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples worldwide are affected by, and engage with, tourism in a number of ways. On the one hand, tourism may be oriented to facilitate direct interactions between Indigenous peoples and foreign tourists, often referred to as cultural or even “primitivist” tourism. In such cases, Indigenous people may or may not have much agency in how that interaction transpires and how much profit they directly derive. In other cases, such as ecotour…
The rebirth of an old question: A comment on “Where are our ancestors? Rethinking Trobriand cosmology”
Jarillo et al. have offered an insightful rethinking of the role of baloma in reincarnation and the perpetuation of the dala lineage in Trobriand cosmology, based on an innovative and collaborative methodology, that counters the prevailing wisdom first published by Malinowski and reinforced in numerous disparate publications since. This comment reflects on Jarillo et al.'s argument and offers some additional comments about the role of rebirth in …
Born again, again: Witchcraft, Pentecostal conversions, and spiritual rebirth in the Trobriand Islands
In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), yoyowa (consistently translated as “witches” by English-speaking Trobrianders) are a constant threat, causing illness and death to those who arouse their envy or ire. While some women are widely known to be yoyowa, accusations are never made publicly, and there are no reprisals. People exercise caution when dealing with known or potential yoyowa, and always try to “make them happy,” in a common …
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field
Undertaking fieldwork in a remote location with limited health care and transportation comes with inherent risks, but doing so with a small child, in a place where understandings of illness and malice may be of a fundamentally different nature than in the ethnographer's home e, brings additional challenges and highlights the ethical dilemmas we may face in the field. This paper describes how continued fieldwork became impossibe when my infant son…
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