In the Shadow of the Palm
Dispersed Ontologies among Marind, West Papua
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2435637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Chao (0000-0002-5434-9238, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 621-649 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360 |
| Publisher | American Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14506/ca33.4.08 |
| OpenAlex | W2900755375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 54 |
This article explores how indigenous Marind of West Papua conceptualize the radical socio-environmental transformations wrought by large-scale deforestation and oil palm expansion on their customary lands and forests. Within the ecology of the Marind lifeworld, oil palm constitutes a particular kind of person, endowed with particular agencies and affects. Its unwillingness to participate in symbiotic socialities with other species jeopardizes the well-being of the life forms populating a dynamic multispecies cosmology, including humans. Drawing from ontological theories and the multispecies approach, I show how people in a remote place engage with adverse environmental transformations enacted by an other-than-human actor. Assumptions of human exceptionalism come under question in the context of a vegetal being that is exceptional in its own particular and destructive ways. Arguing for greater attention to other-than-human species that are unloving rather than unloved, I explore the epistemological frictions that arise from combining the anthropology of ontology with multispecies ethnography. I also attend to the implications of these theoretical positions in the real world of advocacy for those struggling in and against growing social and ecological precariousness
Appropriation · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Deforestation · Deforestation (computer science · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Indigenous · Life world · Lifeworld · Ontology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability · Ecology
Palm Oil Diaspora
Colonialism, Racism, and Corporations
The Indonesianization of West Papua
Media critiques on the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy state (Mifee) program
Women and plant entanglements
Technoliberalism and the Complementary Relationships between Humanitarian, Conservation, and Entrepreneurial Dronework in Indonesia
Glossary
Who Benefits from Multispecies Justice
The Multispecies World of Oil Palm
Multispecies marginality
A Political Ecology of Desire
Multispecies mourning
Songs, Settings, Sociality
Growing Methods
Wrathful Ancestors, Corporate Sorcerers
Farming
Feeding extinction
There are different species of refuge. Agata Kowalewska's interview with Sophie Chao
Jest wiele gatunków ostoi. Wywiad z Sophie Chao
Closing the Frontier, Opening Doors
Making and Unmaking Territories with Plants in the Riverine Peat Landscape of Central Kalimantan
Stealing Air and Land – The Politics of Translating Global Environmental Governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea
Multilayered Qualities of Relating to Endemic Pili Trees Among Smallholder Agroforestry Farmers in the Philippines
Entangled ecologies
The Planet
The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship
(Un)Worlding the Plantationocene
Refiguring the Plantationocene
Chains of Meaning
Oil palm dispersal into protected wetlands
I am Indonesian, am I?”
Confía en su apetito”. Apuntes sobre la exactitud etnográfica y el uso del dibujo en un contexto de desconfianza hacía las fotografías
Speculative crops
Labor, violence and the unfamiliar
Animal Deities, Domestication, and the Purpose of Control in Contemporary Singaporean Mediumship
Through the liminal
A Multibeing Manifesto
Narrative Sandplay Interviews
Lively gifts and exclusive commodities
Living Amongst and with Trees
Matas e Matos, Bichos e Encantos
Simplex Society
Women's Grievances and Land Dispossession
Can There Be Justice Here
Conservation and the social sciences
Ethnoontology
Relational health
Eating and Being Eaten
Bouncing back? Kangaroo-human resistance in contemporary Australia
Du thé, des fromages et des cochons
Wandering under the Oil Palm Canopy
Mussels and Megaprojects
Resisting Without Violence
We are (not) monkeys
Ecologies of mistrust
"Nature" and territories as victims
The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation
Cultural Anthropology in 2018
Children of the palms
Spirits out of place
A tree of many lives
Weaving Partial Stories
Experimental Science for the 'Bananapocalypse
Cultivating 'Care
New light on the most ancient East.
The Banana Tree at the Gate
Wilms' tumor in the newborn period
The Columbian exchange
Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom
Local Knowledge and Management of Sago Palm (Metroxylon Sagu Rottboell) Diversity in South Central Seram, Maluku, Eastern Indonesia
How Forests Think
Touching technologies, touching visions. The reclaiming of sensorial experience and the politics of speculative thinking
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Ontological Choreography
Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia
Nature and Society in Central Brazil
Subjectivity and plant domestication
Putting Animals Back Together, Taking Commodities Apart
Becoming Salmon
"Beyond "The Original Affluent Society
Freedom in Entangled Worlds
Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations
Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia
"Men are taro" (they cannot be rice)
Zeno and the Art of Anthropology
Lively Multispecies Communities, Deadly Racial Assemblages, and the Promise of Justice
Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations and their Implications for Biofuel Production in Indonesia
The materiality of plants
Becoming-with
Metabolic Labor
On Touching-the Inhuman That Therefore I Am
Involutionary Momentum
The Sense of Sago
The Body We Care for
Ancient society, or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Situated Knowledges
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Boundary Plants, the Social Production of Space, and Vegetative Agency in Agrarian Societies
Pigs, Fish, and Birds
Taking Love Seriously in Human-Plant Relations in Mozambique
Herding Species
"Radical alterity is just another way of saying "reality
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT), The University of Manchester
Fingeryeyes
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
What kinship is (part one)
Tedium and creativity
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
The anthropology of ontology (religious science)
Yam Symbolism in the Sepik
Processes of inclusion and adverse incorporation
From the Milk River
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |