Rather, they had made a bold move which had impressed people with its decisiveness and had apparently rested on a correct judgment that the conditions were right for its acceptance. Remote camera-traps captured snow leopards – usually solitary creatures – in a battle over a female in the Himalayas. Before turning to the comparison between those approaches to comparison and Strathern’s, let us first briefly consider the diversity that is revealed by a keywords approach to a single word that is especially relevant for this chapter and the volume as a whole, namely ‘power’. ''Yes, I think it's an absolutely fabulous place to live.'' The Tilka did not then attempt to reoccupy their territory but instead went back to live with Kulka and elsewhere. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. He copped criticism for his silence, but he wanted to be absolutely sure of the facts. Building on Keesing’s and Blust’s arguments, Juliette Blevins (2008) expands their comparative base to include not only Oceanic languages, but two other higher-level sub-groupings of the Austronesian family: Central Malayo-Polynesian and South Halmahera/West New Guinea (see Figure 10). Although the word derives ultimately from English ‘power’ it is in some ways closer in meaning to Oceanic mana as discussed by Firth and Keesing. Power. Chinese Studies, French & German language & literature. Strathern, Marilyn. analysis, oceans,lakes,dust, climate change,environment, Chinese studies, librarianship, Asian
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ABN : 52 234 063 906. For their valuable comments on drafts of this chapter I would like to thank Juliette Blevins and Francesca Merlan. 2005. (Strathern 1988: 343). ", For all his knowledge and enthusiasm, Attenborough might never have made it onto the screen had his first boss at the BBC had her way. relation, Marsupial biology, History of Northern
London: Croom Helm. Before anyone was killed, the war was stopped by the intervention of a women’s work group who marched out on to the battlefield between the opposing sides carrying the national flag and exhorted the combatants to call off the fight and take their weapons back home. Attenborough's opinions are powerful and he's careful about expressing them in public. To see why, let us consider the fuller form of Strathern’s claims from which the quotes near the beginning of the previous paragraph are taken: All I have done is to make explicit such implicit cultural comparisons as are entailed in the incidental juxtapositions of deploying one language as the medium in which to reveal the form that another, were it comparable, might take.
Now, six years after the cessation of fighting, a decisive move had been taken by the Tilka, and contradictory counter-moves taken by members of the Kopia alliance. Their son Robert is a retired bioanthropologist, who worked for many years as a senior lecturer at Canberra's ANU.
relations, student careers, Vertebrate Palaeontology (esp. But then came a phone call from Mary Adams, a producer with the BBC's television service. Dr Clare McFadden. The Trans New Guinea Phylum and other language groups in New Guinea and environs. (Firth 1940: 505).
Together with their much larger and more powerful allied tribe the Kulka, the Tilka then retaliated by invading Kopia territory and doing the same. 10 It is not used in reference to Lutheran services, which are called mis, or to other Protestant services, which are called by the Tok-Pisin derived term lotu. Merlan, Francesca, and Rumsey, Alan. 2013. 2000. Finally, drawing on my discussion of mana and pawa in the first two sections of the chapter, I consider some methodological and theoretical issues involved in the kind of comparative study that is pursued in this volume. Through a detailed survey of Oceanic languages, Keesing showed that although cognate terms for mana were widespread among them, these had a much wider range of meanings than had been allowed for by Codrington et al., and that, just as Firth had found for Tikopia, these tended to cluster more around a notion of efficaciousness of human agency in specific contexts rather than of generalised supernatural power or influence. Form, Updated: 11
The next night some other men from the Kopia alliance came and buried it again. Affairs, Development economics. of SE Asia, visual anthropology, childhood studies,
ritual, taboo, rule’ (Pawley 2013: 9–10, 54), in addition to which he now says he ‘probably should have added “speech, talk” to the range of glosses’ (personal communication, September 2013). Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands. In a recent unpublished paper—an earlier version of which is cited by Blevins4—one of the leading Papuanists, Andrew Pawley, presents two distinct cognate sets, one of which he assigns to Proto TNG *mVna5- ‘be, exist, live’ and the other to Proto TNG *mana ‘instructions, customary practices, e.g.