Exploring Spatial Relationships between Material Culture and Language in the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea

Oceania ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Culture And Language

The Story of Storyboards from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Martin Soukup ◽  
Dušan Lužný
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
The Village

This study analyzes and interprets East Sepik storyboards, which the authors regard as a form of cultural continuity and instrument of cultural memory in the post-colonial period. The study draws on field research conducted by the authors in the village of Kambot in East Sepik. The authors divide the storyboards into two groups based on content. The first includes storyboards describing daily life in the community, while the other links the daily life to pre-Christian religious beliefs and views. The aim of the study is to analyze one of the forms of contemporary material culture in East Sepik in the context of cultural changes triggered by Christianization, colonial administration in the former Territory of New Guinea and global tourism.

Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply]

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 769-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Roberts ◽  
Carmella C. Moore ◽  
A. Kimball Romney ◽  
Guido Barbujani ◽  
Peter Bellwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
Log Linear

scholarly journals 'GILDED CARRIAGES AND LIVERIED SERVANTS': Thackeray, Bourdieu, and Material Culture

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Miller
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Economic Experience ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
Representation Of Space ◽  
Commodity Form

The writings of William Thackeray (1811-1863) are dominated by his experience of the commodity form; his apprehension not only of objects and material reality, but also of his own literary productions emerges from economic experience. Working from Pierre Bourdieu's materialist analysis of spatial relationships, the following paper first examines the consequences of commodification on Thackeray's representation of space and material culture, and then briefly analyzes that representation as a product of Thackeray's habitus, understood as the dialectical product of his position within a series of social transformations in mid-Victorian England.

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