76 research outputs found
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding (eds.) Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations.
No full textSynnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding (eds.) Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations. Canon Pyon, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing. The RAI Country Series, Volume Three. 2021. 152 pp. ISBN: 978-1-912385-30-0 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1-912385-38-6 (E-book); DOI: 10.26581/B.BEND01 (E-book
Vincent and the Rainforest
No full textThe film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The film begins with a conversation at Vincent's home followed by a travel to the rainforest, where Vincent shows his knowledge regarding the use of plants and trees. The conversation gives insight into Vincent's "local" perspective on the issues of an outside world through descriptions of his career of cooperation and conflict with foreign actors (including Asian logging companies, Australian mining companies, and international environmental organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature). It also gives insight into the vast knowledge of the rainforest held by individuals like Vincent
Vincent and the Rainforest: Global Conversations in Rural Melanesia
No full textThe film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. The film begins with a conversation at Vincent\u27s home followed by a travel to the rainforest, where Vincent shows his knowledge regarding the use of plants and trees. The conversation gives insight into Vincent\u27s "local" perspective on the issues of an outside world through descriptions of his career of cooperation and conflict with foreign actors (including Asian logging companies, Australian mining companies, and international environmental organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature). It also gives insight into the vast knowledge of the rainforest held by individuals like Vincent
Ulla Hasager & Jonathan Friedman (eds.): Hawai'i - Return to Nationhood
No full textUlla Hasager & Jonathan Friedman (eds.): Hawai'i - Return to Nationhood
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Kuarao - lianefiske i Marovo-lagunen
No full textOpptakene til filmen "Kuarao - lianefiske i Marovo- lagunen" ble gjort i 1996 av antropologen Rolf Scott og medieviter Trygve Tollefsen i filmselskapet SOT Film AS. Filmen bygger på professor Edvard Hvidings forskning og feltarbeid gjennom flere år på Salomonøyene. Alle forberedelser, opptak og ettearbeid ble gjort i tett samarbeid med professor Hviding og ikke minst ved hjelp av innbyggerne i landsbyen Chea. Filmprosjektet er et samarbeid mellom Universitetet i Bergen, SOT Film AS samt landsbyen Chea og nasjonalmuseet på Salomonøyene. Materialet er strukturert for web av Trygve Tollefsen - design og programmering ved Frode H. Pedersen, Mandag Media. Filmen er delt inn i flere sekvenser som dager. Målsetningen er å synliggjøre det tidsforløpet en kuarao- prosess er. Ønsker du å vite mer om de filmatiske sidene ved prosjektet kan du laste ned hovedoppgaven "Dokumentasjon eller fortolkning? : strukturering av dokumentarfilmen Kuarao - lianefiske i Marovo-lagunen" (Tollefsen 2000, http://hdl.handle.net/1956/1279).The people of Chea village, centrally located in the great Marovo Lagoon of the western Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, organize annual communal fishing expeditions called kuarao, in which the entire village community takes part. Early in the morning a large circle of bush vines is laid out in the lagoon waters near the barrier reef. As people swim with the vines and drag them along, large numbers of fish caught by surprise inside the gradually narrowing circle are herded together, until finally a tightly packed mass of fish can be stunned with a plant poison and collected in canoes. The kuarao of the Solomon Islands, as exemplified in this film about the efforts of Chea villagers in September 1996, serves as a powerful linkage between ancestral traditions, customary ownership of the sea, and surplus production for modern cash needs.
"Chea's Great Kuarao" is based on the long-term work of anthropologist Edvard Hviding in the Marovo Lagoon. The film arises from a collaborative project which since 1996 has involved the Norwegian documentary film company SOT Film, the University of Bergen, Solomon Islands National Museum, the Western Province of Solomon Islands, and the Marovo Area Council.
The very special involvement of Chea Village Community and the Babata Tribe in the making of this film is gratefully acknowledged
Non-Pristine Forests: A Long-Term History of Land Transformation in the Western Solomons
No full textDancing Diplomacy: performance and the politics of protocol in Australia
No full textThis book chapter provides a comparative analysis of a number of performance events revealing how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians innovatively draw on the power of performance to negotiate relationships among themselves and with the State. I explore the idea that the value of dance as diplomacy lies in its potential to hide as much as it reveals, through the analysis of three particular performance events that took place in three different political arenas, the local, the regional and the national. I begin with a birthday celebration on Thursday Island, Torres Strait, and then move on to a particular dance performed at the Laura Aboriginal Dance and Cultural Festival in Cape York. My final example concerns the opening of the Australian Federal Parliament in February 2008, when for the first time in Australian history, the official opening began with a traditional 'welcome to country' by Indigenous elders
State effects and festival performances: Indigenous Australian participation in the Festival of Pacific Arts
No full textIn order to shed light on the creative ways that the concept of cultural heritage is being employed in response to global processes in the Pacific, this chapter focuses on the Festival of Pacific Arts, initially called the South Pacific Festival of Arts. I specifically focus on the festival as a site of political engagement between local communities and the state. Participants at the Festival of Pacific Arts are supported to attend the event as delegates and representatives of their nation-states. Yet, my research reveals that for at least some delegates, performing at the festival appears to be as much about discounting the state as representing it. Although the festival is clearly a state affair, it also provides fertile ground for grassroots action and a performative
engagement with political alternatives. As David Guss (2000:172) concludes in his book The Festive State, in which he explores the power of the state to harness festive forms in its own interests: 'To those involved the stakes are high. For, as participants well know, festivals, for all their joy and color, are also battlegrounds where identities are fought over and communities made'
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