198 research outputs found
In Memoriam Roger M, Keesing (1935-1993)
No full textMaranda Pierre. In Memoriam Roger M, Keesing (1935-1993). In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 97, 1993-2. pp. 223-224
Foraging in the urban jungle: notes from the Kwaio underground
No full textKeesing Roger M. Foraging in the urban jungle: notes from the Kwaio underground. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 99, 1994-2. pp. 167-175
AC2-SIKWAI201 - Rethinking Mana: The Kwaio Case by Roger M. Keesing
No full text53 page text. -- Rethinking Mana: The Kwaio Case. By Roger M. Keesing, ANU. Reprint of a paper originally presented to the annual meeting of the Kroeber Anthropological Society. [Author indicates that the paper was not proof read]. A linguistic and ethnographic study of the word 'mana' and its notion of 'power or influence' in Polynesia/Melanesia, in the Kwaio context.. Language as given: Kwai
On not understanding symbols: Toward an anthropology of incomprehension
No full textRoger Keesing wrote the first drafts of On not understanding symbols in 1978. After several versions of the manuscript circulated among his colleagues, Keesing decided to revise his analysis extensively. He eventually included snippets of the paper’s ethnographic material in some of his later ethnography on Kwaio religion (1982). His final version of On not understanding symbols, half of which is found only in a hand written form, was never published but nonetheless is an important precursor for much of Keesing’s later critiques on the “anthropology of meaning," and work on Kwaio religion. Keesing’s final version of the manuscript, from which this paper is based, is found in Roger Keesing’s Papers (MSS 0427) in the Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology housed in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego. Jordan Haug transcribed and edited the manuscript. Minor modifications to the text were made to point the reader to relevant supporting material. Citations for references published after 1978 have been added in the editing process to give a broader sense of where this particular paper lies in Keesing’s oeuvre and the broader ethnographic literature on the Kwaio. David Akin provided critical comments and inspiration in the editing process
Anthropological illusions and the tribal world, an ANU public lecture by Professor Roger Keesing
No full textRecorded at the Australian National University, 9 March 1977. -- A public lecture in which hitherto prevailing views on culture are criticised, and recent corrective views are given
Plantation networks, plantation culture: the hidden side of colonial Melanesia.
No full textThe plantations to which young Melanesian men have been going for a century, which have brought together diverse languages and cultural traditions, have received little anthropological attention. Yet in the plantation world, it is argued, a plantation culture, partial but remarkably stable, has developed; and in this world ideas have been transmitted and shared, which then have taken root in the diverse societies from which workers came.Les plantations où les jeunes Mélanésiens sont allés pendant un siècle et qui assemblèrent diverses langues et traditions culturelles, ont peu intéressé les anthropologues jusqu'ici. Pourtant, selon la thèse de l'auteur, une culture de plantation, certes partielle mais remarquablement stable, s'est développée dans cet univers particulier, et des idées y ont été transmises et mises en commun, qui ont ensuite pris racine dans les diverses sociétés dont les travailleurs étaient originaires.Keesing Roger M. Plantation networks, plantation culture: the hidden side of colonial Melanesia.. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, n°82-83, tome 42, 1986. Les plantations dans le Pacifique Sud. pp. 163-170
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