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From 'Stone-Age' To 'Real-Time' : Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in Anthropology SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925022438
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From 'Stone-Age' To 'Real-Time'DDC classification:
  • 304.809598
LOC classification:
  • HB2107 -- .F766 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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