TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slama, Martin
AU  - Munro, Jenny
AB  - There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the ‘stone-age’ is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. 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. The volume is thus essentially occupied with discourses of time and space and how they inform questions of hierarchy and possibilities for equality. Papuans are increasingly mobile, and seeking to rework inherited ideas, institutions and technologies, while also coming up against palpable limits on what can be imagined or achieved, secured or defended. This volume investigates some of these trajectories for the cultural logics and social or political structures that shape them. The chapters are highly ethnographic, based on in-depth research conducted in diverse spaces within and beyond Papua. These contributions explore topics ranging from hip hop to HIV/ AIDS to historicity, filling much-needed conceptual and ethnographic lacunae in the study of West Papua.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_569112
ID  - OAPEN ID: 569112
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 902812945
KW  - west papua
KW  - anthropology
KW  - ethnography
KW  - Indigenous people of New Guinea
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Korowai people
KW  - Papua (province)
KW  - Torture
KW  - Western New Guinea
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8e75da3f-e443-4864-8509-2d2b181b1e76/569112.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33133
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781925022421
TI  - From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time': Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiositiesnull
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