The Anthropologist’s Voice

This chapter is dedicated, as is this book, to the memory of Don Tuzin, a great anthropologist who studied the Arapesh-speaking village of Ilahita in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. If I seem, at times, to be a wayward admirer, critiquing as well as giving homage, I hope that this will be taken in the spirit meant-as an essay presented in the absence of a great talk with Don, usually a brief time out from the chatter of professional meetings when, for a few moments, two voices might be heard speaking animatedly, sometimes hesitantly, grasping for the right word, seeking meaning, striving to comprehend a point, a parrying engagement of two individuals who have something to say and much in common-a dialogue. I did fieldwork only a few miles from Ilahita in the Abelam-speaking village of Apangai. This proximity meant that I engaged with Don's work in a terrain where similarities and differences in cultural forms could be, at times, closely compared. I, and the rest of us in this volume, will not have that conversational dialogue again; the text might remain, but the voice disappears, except in fragile memory-much to my great sadness

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• The Abelam Tribe, Sepik District, New Guinea a Preliminary Report

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• The Abelam Tribe, Sepik District, New Guinea a Preliminary Report

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• Margaret Mead in New Guinea

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• Naven

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• The Voice of The Tambaran

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• Works and lives

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• Art and Environment in the Sepik

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• Anthony's Feast

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• Margaret Mead and Samoa, The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth

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