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Article: Echoing Images: The Construction of Savagery Among Papua New Guinean Villagers

TitleEchoing Images: The Construction of Savagery Among Papua New Guinean Villagers
Authors
Issue Date1992
Citation
Visual Anthropology, 1992, v. 5, n. 2, p. 143-152 How to Cite?
AbstractIn 1987, a Swedish tourist visiting a remote Papua New Guinean village called Gapun made a video of the people who live there. Sensing that the tourist wanted them to be “primitive”, a number of villagers accommodated him by dressing up and acting as “savages”. This paper explores the villagers representations of savagery by contextualizing it in contemporary village discourses about the past and the modem world. The analysis raises the question of how Western images and representations of the Other come to engage the Other in a dialogue which, because of the socio-economic realties of colonialism, through time becomes increasingly monologic. It describes how, in Gapun, the villagers representations of themselves and their past have in an important sense become displaced by their understanding of Western images of them. © 1992, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/308887
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dc.contributor.authorKulick, Don-
dc.contributor.authorWillson, Margaret E.-
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-08T07:50:20Z-
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dc.date.issued1992-
dc.identifier.citationVisual Anthropology, 1992, v. 5, n. 2, p. 143-152-
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/308887-
dc.description.abstractIn 1987, a Swedish tourist visiting a remote Papua New Guinean village called Gapun made a video of the people who live there. Sensing that the tourist wanted them to be “primitive”, a number of villagers accommodated him by dressing up and acting as “savages”. This paper explores the villagers representations of savagery by contextualizing it in contemporary village discourses about the past and the modem world. The analysis raises the question of how Western images and representations of the Other come to engage the Other in a dialogue which, because of the socio-economic realties of colonialism, through time becomes increasingly monologic. It describes how, in Gapun, the villagers representations of themselves and their past have in an important sense become displaced by their understanding of Western images of them. © 1992, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.-
dc.languageeng-
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dc.titleEchoing Images: The Construction of Savagery Among Papua New Guinean Villagers-
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08949468.1992.9966583-
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