Navigating the Future

Minnegal, Monica; Dwyer, Peter D.

doi:10.22459/ntf.06.2017

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“…Cognitive dissonance theory helps us explore how people deal with uncertainty, making it useful for thinking through impacts and implications of resource exploration projects characterised by prolepsis, anticipation and desires to effect and affect the future (see Minnegal and Dwyer 2017;and Skrzypek 2020). In cognitive dissonance theory, when there is an inconsistency between attitudes or behaviours, something must change to eradicate the disharmony (Festinger 1957).…”

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“…In that regard, the interpersonal absences, lack of direct interactions with government officials, and poor delivery of government services in the area contributed to the feeling that the state was absent from Frieda. 4 These feelings were exacerbated by the community members' very limited understanding of government processes and systems-a form of institutional uncertainty about the rules of the new game (see also Minnegal and Dwyer 2017). On more than one occasion I heard people ask 'How can we participate fully if we do not understand?'…”

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Categorical Dissonance: Experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea

Skrzypek¹

2021

The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

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Categorical Dissonance: Experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea

Skrzypek¹

2021

The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects

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“…That is not to suggest all New Guinean dogs were effective hunters, as many were considered by their owners to be ‘useless’ for the task, and the hunting utility of dogs to a given community varied substantially by location (but with little apparent geographic structure). The number of dogs kept by a household or a community varies enormously, but hunting dog packs often exceeded five active individuals (Minnegal & Dwyer, 2017, p. 26; Morren, 1986, p. 132; Sillitoe, 2003, pp. 173–174), with as many as 10–20 dogs being kept by individual men among the Gogodala (Baldwin, 1990, p. 239), and 8–10 regularly taken on expeditions by the Mabuge (Gorecki & Pernetta, 1989, p. 91).…”

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Hunting with dogs: a synthesis of ethnohistorical data and discussion of their implications for prehistoric subsistence in New Guinea

Koungoulos,

Brumm

2023

Archaeology in Oceania

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The advent of the dog is widely recognised as a major development in the economic organisation of ancient and contemporary hunter‐gatherer and agricultural societies. Although the utility of dogs in assisting recent historical and contemporary New Guinean hunters is commonly emphasised in anthropological discourse, to date there has been no critical evaluation of their actual contributions to hunting yields and nutrition. As a result, it remains unclear what significance the advent of hunting dogs is likely to have had for prehistoric economies in New Guinea. Here we present a comprehensive synthesis and review of the evidence for the use of dogs in hunting within New Guinea, focusing on the ways in which they assist; what kinds of game they help to capture; the degree to which they improve hunting yields and efficiency; and how this affects the taxonomic makeup and average body‐size of game in human diets. We then apply the findings to a consideration of how dogs likely affected the prehistoric economies of New Guinea after their introduction in the Late Holocene. As reliance on hunting dogs tends to produce over‐representation of a few mammal species within hunting yields, we identify potential zooarchaeological signatures for the use of dogs, and discuss excavated sites at which these may be visible. Dogs have a transformative effect on the outcomes of hunting in New Guinea's environments, and their novel use likely marked a significant development in the island's economies which has previously been underestimated.

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“…6 For significant analyses of Christianity, modernity, youth, gender, and the good life in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere in the Pacific, see Robbins 2004;Barker 1990Barker , 2012Tomlinson and McDougall 2013;Handman 2015;Minnegal and Dwyer 2017;Stead 2018;Gregory and Altman 2018. 7 We did describe this event, not in a book, but in an article.…”

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The Capitalism of Chambri Cosmology: The 2017 Sir Raymond Firth Memorial Lecture

Gewertz¹,

Errington²

2020

The Contemporary Pacific

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Britain and Ireland was titled "Social Organization and Social Change." It concluded with this advice (in paraphrase): To understand social change-whether in structure, "in which basic elements of the society alter," or in detail, "in which social action while not merely repetitive, does not alter the basic social norms"-it is necessary to study closely "the setting and results of individual choice and decision" (Firth 1954, 17). In other words, it is necessary to look carefully at social organization. Indeed, as stated earlier in his address and implicit in his emphasis on long-term fieldwork, although structure provides a framework for action, circumstances may lead to "fresh choices" and "fresh decisions" (Firth 1954, 4). These choices and decisions may ripple throughout a structural framework and, sometimes, beyond it. When this departure from a structure becomes permanent, the result is social change.Thirty-four years later, social change was still on the mind of another distinguished scholar delivering another influential address. This was Marshall Sahlins in his 1988 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology, "Cosmologies of Capitalism." It reflected his earlier formulation of the "structure of the conjuncture" as "the practical realization of the cultural categories in a specific historical context, as expressed in the interested action of the historic agents, including the microsociology of their interaction" (Sahlins 1985, xiv). This process, with its focus on choices, decisions, and motivated engagements, is, as Sahlins explicitly referenced, "reminiscent of Firth's distinction between a de facto 'social organization and a de jure or underlying 'social structure '" (1985, xiv). Sahlins's

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Navigating the Future

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

Categorical Dissonance: Experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea

Categorical Dissonance: Experiencing Gavman at the Frieda River Project in Papua New Guinea

Hunting with dogs: a synthesis of ethnohistorical data and discussion of their implications for prehistoric subsistence in New Guinea

The Capitalism of Chambri Cosmology: The 2017 Sir Raymond Firth Memorial Lecture

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