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Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 146 | 2018, 151-163., 2018
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Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities, David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman, eds., Berghahn., 2016
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ISLAND RIVERS: Fresh Water and Place in Oceania, eds. J.R. Wagner and J.K. Jacka, 2018, ANU Press., 2018
The history of the Sepik River from the perspective of the Iatmul people of Tambunum village.
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In: Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture, and Commerce. 2013. L. Greenspoon, ed. pp. 177-205. Studi... more In: Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture, and Commerce. 2013. L. Greenspoon, ed. pp. 177-205. Studies in Jewish Civilization, Vol. 24. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
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This article corroborates Alan Dundes’s psychoanalytic interpretation of flood myths as expressin... more This article corroborates Alan Dundes’s psychoanalytic interpretation of flood myths as expressing male envy of female fertility and birth. My data consist of two deluge tales collected in a Sepik River society in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s and 1994. But I do more than simply test Dundes’s thesis. I also show that it is possible and, indeed, imperative to embed psychoanalytic analyses of oral tales in the local cultural context. I also update, in a sense, Dundes’s framework with insights from Lacanian and feminist anthropology. Last, I discuss how Iatmul women respond—both to the tale and its psychodynamic innuendo.
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The outstanding papers in this collection raise important points for not only a fuller understand... more The outstanding papers in this collection raise important points for not only a fuller understanding of the contemporary Pacific, but also for issues of identity and belonging much further afield. Specifically, I propose that we can approach these papers from a Jewish Studies perspective gazing upon Melanesia, but also from a Melanesianist perspective surveying the broad field of Jewish Studies. For in many respects, the case studies ask us to rethink conventional boundaries. Melanesians, I argue, draw variously on Israelite, Israeli, Biblical, and Jewish themes, all refracted through Christianity, to re-centre themselves in a global history so they are both valid and validated. But in so doing, we must ask ourselves, If Melanesians lay claim to Jewish affinities, broadly construed, what do these claims pose for Jewish identities as well as the very concept of identity in terms of notions of diaspora and centre? Indeed, if Melanesians are Jews, then how do we define not only Judaism but also Melanesia? My goal, then, is not so much to focus on the chapters as to use the chapters to probe fundamental questions about self and society in a globalised, mutable world.
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Pacific Studies, 2005
... pairs exchanges roles, in active-passive games like finger-pulling (LOC: MMP, Fieldnotes, 6/9M... more ... pairs exchanges roles, in active-passive games like finger-pulling (LOC: MMP, Fieldnotes, 6/9May 1938). ... In Beyond Victory, ed. Ruth Nanda Anshen, 66-87 ... Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson 141 Romy, Fatimah Tobing 1996 The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic ...
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