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Title: | Counterparts: Clothing, value and the sites of otherness in Panapompom ethnographic encounters |
Authors: | Rollason, W |
Keywords: | Clothing;Papua New Guinea;Post-colony;Alterity;Ethnography |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Anthropological Forum, 18(1), 17 - 35, 2008 |
Abstract: | Panapompom people living in the western Louisiade Archipelago of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, see their clothes as indices of their perceived poverty. ‘Development’ as a valued form of social life appears as images that attach only loosely to the people employing them. They nevertheless hold Panapompom people to account as subjects to a voice and gaze that is located in the imagery they strive to present: their clothes. This predicament strains anthropological approaches to the study of Melanesia that subsist on strict alterity, because native self‐judgments are located ‘at home’ for the ethnographer. In this article, I develop the notion of the counterpart as a means to explore these forms of postcolonial oppression and their implications for the ethnographic encounter. |
Description: | This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Anthropological Forum, 18(1), 17-35, 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00664670701858927. |
URI: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00664670701858927 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8740 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00664670701858927 |
ISSN: | 0066-4677 |
Appears in Collections: | Anthropology Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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