Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2266932 |
|---|---|
| Autores | P D Dwyer (0000-0003-1799-5318, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente), M Minnegal (0000-0001-5008-3770, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2007 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 545-562 |
| Data de publicação | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00442.x |
| OpenAlex | W2081576104 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 28 |
An account of the history and actions of one man is used to show how agency was central to processes of social change among Kubo people of the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Through a thirteen-year period, a growing awareness of, but little exposure to, 'Western' modes of living challenged earlier certainties, created desires, and suggested alternatives. Modernity thus provided the context for change. But modernity is not itself a process of change. By drawing from ambiguities inherent in pre-existing structures (or discourses) or createdde novothrough encounters with previously unimagined possibilities, and by favouring one or another of the multiple trajectories legitimized by those ambiguities, people were causally implicated in changing the conditions of their own existence. Those changes entailed a shift from a predominantly relational epistemology to an increasingly categorical epistemology.RésuméDans cet article, le récit de la vie et des actes d'un homme servent à montrer comment l'intentionnalité (agency) a été essentielle dans les processus de changement social chez les Kubos des basses terres intérieures de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée. Sur une période de treize ans, la connaissance accrue qu'ils ont eue des modes de vie « occidentaux »- tout en y étant peu exposés - a remis en question des certitudes antérieures, créé des désirs, et suggéré des alternatives. La modernité a ainsi créé le contexte du changement, sans être en elle-même un processus de changement. À partir des ambiguïtés inhérentes aux structures (ou discours) préexistantes ou crééesde novopar la découverte de possibilités jusqu'alors inimaginables, et en privilégiant l'une ou l'autre des multiples trajectoires légitimées par ces ambiguïtés, les Kubos ont été impliqués dans une relation causale de changement des conditions de leur propre existence. Ces changements ont entraîné le passage d'une épistémologie principalement relationnelle à une épistémologie de plus en plus catégorielle
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Sago games
Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Making Gender
Nature, Culture, and Society
High Religion
Encompassing Others
Materialising Oceania
Syncretic Persons
Ecology and community dynamics of Kubo people in the tropical lowlands of Papua New Guinea
Women, Pigs, God and Evolution
Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future
The Unseen Influence
Agency and Culture
Responses to a Drought in the Interior Lowlands of Papua New Guinea
Status and Sacredness
The Gender of the GiftProblems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
Biological Structure and Embodied Human Agency
The Transformation of Use-Rights
Rereading Relationships
Waiting for Company
On Certain Unconsidered Aspects of Double Descent Systems
Ritual form and permutation in New Guinea
Ambiguating Agency
"Animism" Revisited
Debating Self, Identity, and Culture in Anthropology
Intensification and Social Complexity in the Interior Lowlands of Papua New Guinea
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2010 - 2020 (11) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |