From 'Stone-Age' To 'Real-Time' : Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Monographs in Anthropology Series .
- Monographs in Anthropology Series .
Intro -- Preliminary pages -- List of Contributors -- Illustrations -- 1. From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities - An Introduction -- 2. Demonstrating the Stone-Age in Dutch New Guinea -- 3. From Primitive Other to Papuan Self: Korowai Engagement with Ideologies of Unequal Human Worth in Encounters with Tourists, State Officials and Education -- 4. Papua Coming of Age: The Cycle of Man's Civilisation and Two Other Papuan Histories -- 5. Under Two Flags: Encounters with Israel, Merdeka and the Promised Land in Tanah Papua -- 6. Hip Hop in Manokwari: Pleasures, Contestations and the Changing Face of Papuanness -- 7. 'Now we know shame': Malu and Stigma among Highlanders in the Papuan Diaspora -- 8. Torture as a Mode of Governance: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Torture in Papua, Indonesia -- 9. 'Living in HIV-land': Mobility and Seropositivity among Highlands Papuan Men -- 10. Papua as an Islamic Frontier: Preaching in 'the Jungle' and the Multiplicity of Spatio-Temporal Hierarchisations.
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the current moment generates in West Papua, where the persistent 'stone-age' image meets the practices and ideologies of the 'real-time' - a popular expression referring to immediate digital communication.
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Migration, Internal -- Indonesia -- Papua. Religion and culture -- Indonesia -- Papua. Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs. Papua (Indonesia) -- Civilization. Papua (Indonesia) -- History.