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Department of Anthropology Autumn Seminars
In this paper I analyse the discourses of Jonah Dehimarau, a Solomon Islander in his mid-fifties from the Arosi region of the island of Makira. Since civil conflict disrupted his country between 1998 and 2003, Dehimarau has become deeply interested in new and unusual stories about his island. Allegedly, for example, a passing foreign vessel recently detected a powerful signal that nearly burned out its electronic equipment, and when Jimmy ‘Rasta’ Lusibaea, the feared leader of a group of militants known as the Malaita Eagle Force, tried to approach Makira, two ships mysteriously appeared, disabled his boat with flashing lights, and disappeared again. Exploring ethnographic material of this kind, which I will call Makiran wonder discourses, I seek to show how the sense of wonder that such discourses express and generate is both an index and a mode of ontological transformation.
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| 31 Oct 2012 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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