How Malinowski sailed the Midnight Sun: the academic conference as ethnographic performance |
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Authors: | Sergio Jarillo |
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Affiliation: | Climate Change Adaptation – Communities, School of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia |
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Abstract: | Anthropology's scope is broader than its public, often limited to other anthropologists, while those who share their knowledge in the field with the ethnographer are too often cut off from anthropological debates about that knowledge. The anthropology conference, seen as research practice, proves successful in readmitting ethnographic subjects into anthropological dialogues. A symposium held in 2015 in Alotau, Papua New Guinea, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Malinowski's arrival in the Massim region, demonstrates how Massim peoples transcend anthropologists’ discursive presentations by using images, objects, and performances, diluting, along the way, anthropology's hierarchical control. |
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