The Articulation of Indigenous and Exogenous Orders in Highland New Guinea and Beyond

One of the leading challenges for contemporary anthropology is to try to contribute to an understanding of the interaction between indigenous and exogenous socio‐cultural orders, especially at the frontiers of globalisation. Here I review three recent attempts to do so: (1) a model of structural tra...

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Published in:The Australian journal of anthropology 2006-04, Vol.17 (1), p.47-69
Main Author: Rumsey, Alan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians
Acculturation, contemporary social changes. (cultural action - rights of indigenous peoples )
Analysis
Anthropology
Australian aborigines
Cultural anthropology
Cultural change
Cultural policy
Ethnology
Field study
Global Local Relationship
Globalization
Guinea
History
Human geography
Indigenous Populations
Oceania
Political economy
Society
Theory
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Summary:One of the leading challenges for contemporary anthropology is to try to contribute to an understanding of the interaction between indigenous and exogenous socio‐cultural orders, especially at the frontiers of globalisation. Here I review three recent attempts to do so: (1) a model of structural transformation as developed by Marshall Sahlins; (2) a model of articulation as developed by James Clifford; (3) a model of ‘adoption’ proposed by Joel Robbins. As a test case for these models, I consider them in relation to some recent developments in local segmentary politics and verbal art in the Ku Waru region of Highland New Guinea. I show that all three models are in certain respects inadequate for understanding those developments, and offer some proposals as to what kinds of theory might be more adequate to the task.
ISSN:1035-8811
1757-6547
DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.2006.tb00047.x