Danilyn Rutherford
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78478 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Danilyn Rutherford |
| PRENOMES | Danilyn |
| SOBRENOME | Rutherford |
| ASSINATURA | RUTHERFORD D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9209-3336 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 315 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Populism
Escribir en comunidad
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Writing in community
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast
The Price of Wealth
Danilyn RutherfordYou have probably been in one of those meetings that was supposed to be interdisciplinary.A lone geneticist sits silently to your left, the unwilling representative of a vast epistemological tradition.They smile politely, but they are clearly having trouble finding their way into the discussion.When they present their paper, no one asks any questions: the anthropologists do not know how to read the charts.Or you are the lonely e…
In the Shadow of the Palms
Book Review| December 01 2023 In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua. By Sophie Chao. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. iii, 321 pp. ISBN: 9781478015611. Danilyn Rutherford Danilyn Rutherford Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10872680. https://…
Becoming an operating system
A remarkable experiment in assistive technology, known as PODD, draws on and challenges mainstream understandings of communication in the US. To engage disabled people in conversation, caregivers turn to PODD books, which are binders of laminated sheets that display icons. As caregivers use these books, they act as "operating systems," listing directions as they navigate from page to page, then animating the selected utterance in an enthusiastic …
Cultures of Fermentation
Previous articleNext article FreeCultures of Fermentation Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 24Danilyn RutherfordDanilyn Rutherford Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore"A form of microbial metabolism that converts carbon compounds to energy in the absence of oxygen" (Hendy et al. 2021). This def…
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Masculinities, Maleness, and Violence
Previous articleNext article FreeToward an Anthropological Understanding of Masculinities, Maleness, and Violence Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 23Danilyn RutherfordDanilyn RutherfordPDFPDF PLUSAbstractFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAbstractThis brief essay offers a preface to "Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Masculinities, M…
Eight… The Bible Meets the Idol. Writing and Conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
Proximity to Disability
Proximity can be overwhelming. Proximity can be particularly overwhelming in these modern times, when groups and individuals find themselves in the grip of regimes demanding that they live their identities and relationships with others in particular ways. Modern individuals are supposed to find themselves in what Elizabeth Povinelli calls an intimate event of recognition: an encounter between "I" and a particular kind of "Thou," a lover or a nati…
Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World
This brief essay offers a preface to "Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World," Supplement 22 in the Wenner-Gren Symposium Series with Current Anthropology
Disability Worlds
This brief essay offers a preface to Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 21, "Disability Worlds
Patchy Anthropocene
Previous articleNext article FreePatchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 20Danilyn RutherfordDanilyn Rutherford Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIn June 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey, the Wenner-Gren Foundation hosted the Int…
Cultures of Militarism
Previous articleNext article FreeCultures of Militarism Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 19Danilyn RutherfordDanilyn Rutherford Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreDoes militarism have a culture? It seems to be having a moment. Here in the United States, John McCain's funeral brought home how …
Sympathy and the Savage Slot
Chapter 5 leaves behind van Eechoud, de Bruijn, and their friends and colleagues and fast-forwards to the late 1950s when the social anthropologist Leopold Pospisil conducted fieldwork in the Wissel Lakes. Pospisil’s voluminous and engaging depictions of his work among the Kapauku Papuans offer evidence of how one anthropologist deployed sympathy as a tool. They also offer a glimpse of how the Kapauku might have experienced Pospisil’s fieldwork. …
Sympathetic State-Building
Having sketched out the scene of hospitality Dutch officials entered when they came to the Wissel Lakes, chapter 2 considers the strategy they pursued to reach their goals. The aim of their mission in the highlands was, as the resident of Ambon put it, to make the Papuans “predictable according to our concepts.” To do so, officials like van Eechoud and de Bruijn had to learn to see and feel as they imagined the Papuans did: that is, they had to “…
Technological Passions
Chapter 3 goes back in time to Jan van Eechoud’s first expedition in the Meervlakte region and the way he describes it in his memoir as an experience that enabled him to become an effective component of what I will call “the trekking machine”: the assemblage of men and materiel that made it possible for colonial officials to imagine they were capable of taking control of New Guinea. The chapter focuses on the feelings technologies inspire, and th…
The Ethics of Kinky Empiricism
Chapter 6 is a manifesto. The first part of the chapter consists of a close reading of James Clifford and George Marcus's Writing Culture. It is suggested that rather than leading anthropologists away from empirical questions, the contributors taught anthropologists to be empirical in new and more rigorous ways. This new version of empiricism is "kinky" in the sense that it is both perverse and reflexive: it reveals the limits of mainstream socia…
Hospitality in the Highlands
In the Wissel Lakes, Dutch officials described colonialism as a form of hospitality in which the natives welcomed the Dutch into their homelands and the Dutch welcomed them into the civilized world. Rather than simply dismissing this conceit, chapter 1 delves into the concept of hospitality, which captures the instability of colonial hierarchies. The chapter begins with a discussion of Jacques Derrida’s analysis of the D. H. Lawrence poem “Snake,…
Technological Performances
Chapter 4 turns from the vulnerability officials felt in the face of technology to their efforts to reassert mastery. The chapter analyzes several technology demonstrations, which were a critical element of initial attempts to establish contact with new native groups on both sides of New Guinea and in the rest of the colonial world. The chapter shows how the shooting of firearms, the playing of gramophones, and other spectacles functioned as what…
Empiricism
Empiricism is not a word that cultural anthropologists have used with great frequency. Yet a distinctive form of empiricism has characterized their scholarship since the subfield's earliest days. Using David Hume's version of empiricism as a point of comparison, the entry considers the empirical approaches taken at three moments in the subfield's history: one marked by Franz Boas's invention of the scientific concept of culture; another heralded …
Living in the Stone Age
The Will to Improve
Living in the Stone Age
In the Shadow of the Palms
Book Review| December 01 2023 In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua. By Sophie Chao. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. iii, 321 pp. ISBN: 9781478015611. Danilyn Rutherford Danilyn Rutherford Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10872680. https://…
Sympathy, State Building, and the Experience of Empire
What is the role of sympathy in imperial state building? In this essay, inspired by the empiricist philosopher David Hume and the anthropologist Nancy Munn, I develop a materialist concept of sympathy in an effort to cast new light on the expansion of colonial rule. I deploy this concept in an analysis of reports written just before WWII by officials charged with extending the Netherlands Indies government's reach within western New Guinea. Along…
Of Birds and Gifts
Kinky Empiricism
In this article, which takes James Clifford and George Marcus's Writing Culture as its starting point, I make the case for a kinky kind of empiricism that builds on the singular power of anthropological ways of knowing the world. Kinky empiricism takes established forms to an extreme and turns back to reflect on its own conditions of possibility. At the same time, it deploys methods that create obligations, obligations that compel those who seek …
From Irian Java to Papua
On October 6, 2000, there occurred an event that had long been dreaded by those who have followed the rise of Papuan nationalism in Irian Jaya, the Indonesian province that covers the western half of New Guinea. (Papuan nationalists call this territory West Papua; it is now commonly called Papua in Indonesia. In this context, the use of a particular toponym is a political act, even more than is usually the case.) In the Baliem Valley of Jayawijay…
Living in the Stone Age
The White Edge of the Margin
In Biak, Irian Jaya, in the far east of Indonesia, foreign slogans, narratives, and books are considered a crucial source of authority. In this article, I examine how amber beba (big foreigners), the Biak term for respected leaders, harness the potency attributed to distant lands by presenting their words as translations of an alien text. I explore the implications of this strategy for pursuing authority by examining the worldview expressed in bi…
Introduction
IntroductionAbout Time Danilyn Rutherford Kinship: it's about time. It's about time for kinship's revival as a legitimate topic of anthropological inquiry. That much seems clear. David Schneider's (1984) critique never effectively eliminated anthropologists' interest in the topic (see also Schneider 1980). Almost as soon as the ink on Schneider's diatribe was dry, his students and others were picking up their pens and writing fascinating analyses…
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
Intimacy and Alienation
Research Article| May 01 2001 Intimacy and Alienation: Money and the Foreign in Biak Danilyn Rutherford Danilyn Rutherford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 299–324. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-299 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Being Modern in Bali
Humanism
This essay offers a brief reflection on the problem of death as it has been elaborated within certain strands of humanist thought. In their attempts to come to grips with the scale of slaughter produced during World War I, European thinkers turned to a reexamination of the meaning of death within human life. The essay addresses two opposing viewpoints that emerged from this endeavor, an ontological conception, developed primarily in Heidegger, an…
Waiting for the End in Biak
The organization of the AFC was to include: (a) consultations with the representative councils of the nine regions on the procedures and methods to be followed for ascertaining the freely expressed decision of the people; (b) a clear formulation of whether or not Indonesia was to continue in control; (c) a guarantee of the eligibility of all indigenous inhabitants to participate in the AFC, which was to be carried out in accordance with internati…
Commentary
Rheana Parreñas's examination of orangutan–human encounters suggests how cultural anthropologists might pioneer a bolder approach to the analysis of social interactions of all sorts. All interactions, however closely acquainted the parties involved, require the interpretation of more or less inscrutable sounds and gestures. Engaging with this strangeness incites intensely felt bodily experiences that people only imperfectly translate into passion…
Signs of Recognition
Becoming an operating system
A remarkable experiment in assistive technology, known as PODD, draws on and challenges mainstream understandings of communication in the US. To engage disabled people in conversation, caregivers turn to PODD books, which are binders of laminated sheets that display icons. As caregivers use these books, they act as "operating systems," listing directions as they navigate from page to page, then animating the selected utterance in an enthusiastic …
Proximity to Disability
Proximity can be overwhelming. Proximity can be particularly overwhelming in these modern times, when groups and individuals find themselves in the grip of regimes demanding that they live their identities and relationships with others in particular ways. Modern individuals are supposed to find themselves in what Elizabeth Povinelli calls an intimate event of recognition: an encounter between "I" and a particular kind of "Thou," a lover or a nati…
How structuralism matters
How does structuralism matter? How does it still matter well past its heyday in anthropology and the other so-called "sciences of man?" In this lecture, which is one part intellectual memoir, one part lay of the land, with some autoethnography involving my disabled daughter thrown in at the end, I suggest that certain premises associated with structuralism are at the heart of anthropology's most interesting new work
Love, Violence, and Foreign Wealth
This article addresses a central problem in the anthropology and history of Southeast Asia, in an unexpected place: Biak, an island off New Guinea's north coast which was long a distant frontier of Southeast Asia's colonial and pre-colonial polities. The article suggests how the islanders' ability to 'localize' foreign influences rests on the character of kinship on the island. Oriented by the 'love' of brothers for their out-married sisters, tra…
Unpacking a National Heroine
RutherfordAs Head of the Country, I deeply regret that among the people there are still those who doubt the heroism of Kartini___ Haven't we already unanimously decided that Kartini is a National Heroine?1 On August 11,1986, as Dr
A Life Beyond Boundaries
Frontiers of the lingua franca
This essay explores ideologies of the linguistic contact zone in western New Guinea, a region that was once a colonial backwater, but is now the Indonesian province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), where a separatist movement is underway. The analysis focuses on the efforts of colonial missionaries to draw firm boundaries between Malay, the Netherlands Indies' lingua franca which later became Indonesian, and the Papuan language known as Mefoorsch.…
Why Papua Wants Freedom
Research Article| May 01 2008 Why Papua Wants Freedom: The Third Person in Contemporary Nationalism Danilyn Rutherford Danilyn Rutherford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 345–373. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Danilyn Rutherford; Why Papua Wants Freedom: The Third Person in Contempor…
Writing in community
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer-reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of …
Cultures of Fermentation
Previous articleNext article FreeCultures of Fermentation Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 24Danilyn RutherfordDanilyn Rutherford Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore"A form of microbial metabolism that converts carbon compounds to energy in the absence of oxygen" (Hendy et al. 2021). This def…
Unpacking a National Heroine
RutherfordAs Head of the Country, I deeply regret that among the people there are still those who doubt the heroism of Kartini___ Haven't we already unanimously decided that Kartini is a National Heroine?1 On August 11,1986, as Dr
Being Modern in Bali
Of Birds and Gifts
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
Signs of Recognition
Love, Violence, and Foreign Wealth
This article addresses a central problem in the anthropology and history of Southeast Asia, in an unexpected place: Biak, an island off New Guinea's north coast which was long a distant frontier of Southeast Asia's colonial and pre-colonial polities. The article suggests how the islanders' ability to 'localize' foreign influences rests on the character of kinship on the island. Oriented by the 'love' of brothers for their out-married sisters, tra…
The White Edge of the Margin
In Biak, Irian Jaya, in the far east of Indonesia, foreign slogans, narratives, and books are considered a crucial source of authority. In this article, I examine how amber beba (big foreigners), the Biak term for respected leaders, harness the potency attributed to distant lands by presenting their words as translations of an alien text. I explore the implications of this strategy for pursuing authority by examining the worldview expressed in bi…
From Irian Java to Papua
On October 6, 2000, there occurred an event that had long been dreaded by those who have followed the rise of Papuan nationalism in Irian Jaya, the Indonesian province that covers the western half of New Guinea. (Papuan nationalists call this territory West Papua; it is now commonly called Papua in Indonesia. In this context, the use of a particular toponym is a political act, even more than is usually the case.) In the Baliem Valley of Jayawijay…
Intimacy and Alienation
Research Article| May 01 2001 Intimacy and Alienation: Money and the Foreign in Biak Danilyn Rutherford Danilyn Rutherford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 299–324. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-299 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Raiding the Land of the Foreigners
Ethnography Without Culture? Modernity and Marginality in the Anthropology of Indonesia
(2003). Ethnography Without Culture? Modernity and Marginality in the Anthropology of Indonesia. Reviews in Anthropology: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 91-108
Frontiers of the lingua franca
This essay explores ideologies of the linguistic contact zone in western New Guinea, a region that was once a colonial backwater, but is now the Indonesian province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), where a separatist movement is underway. The analysis focuses on the efforts of colonial missionaries to draw firm boundaries between Malay, the Netherlands Indies' lingua franca which later became Indonesian, and the Papuan language known as Mefoorsch.…
The Bible Meets the Idol
The Gay Archipelago
Why Papua Wants Freedom
Research Article| May 01 2008 Why Papua Wants Freedom: The Third Person in Contemporary Nationalism Danilyn Rutherford Danilyn Rutherford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 345–373. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Danilyn Rutherford; Why Papua Wants Freedom: The Third Person in Contempor…
The empire of love
Along the Archival Grain
Reviewed by: Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense Danilyn Rutherford Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. By Ann Laura Stoler. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. By page 51 of her long-awaited Along the Archival Grain, Ann Laura Stoler has used no fewer than four metaphors to describe her topic. The colonial archive is wood, to be read along or against the grain. The…
Sympathy, State Building, and the Experience of Empire
What is the role of sympathy in imperial state building? In this essay, inspired by the empiricist philosopher David Hume and the anthropologist Nancy Munn, I develop a materialist concept of sympathy in an effort to cast new light on the expansion of colonial rule. I deploy this concept in an analysis of reports written just before WWII by officials charged with extending the Netherlands Indies government's reach within western New Guinea. Along…
Laughing at Leviathan
Commentary
Rheana Parreñas's examination of orangutan–human encounters suggests how cultural anthropologists might pioneer a bolder approach to the analysis of social interactions of all sorts. All interactions, however closely acquainted the parties involved, require the interpretation of more or less inscrutable sounds and gestures. Engaging with this strangeness incites intensely felt bodily experiences that people only imperfectly translate into passion…
Kinky Empiricism
In this article, which takes James Clifford and George Marcus's Writing Culture as its starting point, I make the case for a kinky kind of empiricism that builds on the singular power of anthropological ways of knowing the world. Kinky empiricism takes established forms to an extreme and turns back to reflect on its own conditions of possibility. At the same time, it deploys methods that create obligations, obligations that compel those who seek …
Living, as It Were, in the Stone Age
Producing Indonesia
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time
There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the 'stone-age' is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the
Real food
Comment on Palmié, Stephan. 2013. The cooking of history: How not to study Afro-Cuban religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
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