Memory, Forgetting and the New Tribes Mission in West New Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18932363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Lattas (Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 286-304 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-8077 • E-ISSN: 1834-4461 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1996.tb02560.x |
| OpenAlex | W2081628715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In this paper, I use ethnography from the Kaliai area to explore the social and political relationships which underpin memory and forgetting. I analyse the relationships of hegemony and resistance which are inscribed and articulated in a context of missionising where villagers and missionaries enter into an uneasy alliance to control what should be remembered so that people emerge as particular kinds of subjects. In exploring the social and political organisation of memory, this paper does not treat memory and forgetting as opposites, for people are also taught how to forget. Indeed they are caught in the paradox of always needing to remember that they have to always try to forget. Here the need to forget has the paradoxical effect of keeping alive the content of what must be forgotten. In a strange sort of way the need to forget sustains the need to remember what must be forgotten. I explore the political implications of these paradoxes and ambiguities for sustaining a place outside European hegemony whilst still inscribed in it
Aesthetics · Alliance · Archaeology · Collective memory · Context (archaeology) · Ethnography · Forgetting · Hegemony · Inscribed figure · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2022 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |