Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea

Weiner, James F.; Niles, Don

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“…and to tribal land, which is viewed as the support for existence and knowledge (Stella, 2007: 34–38; Rose, 1996b: 31–32). In his research with the Foi people (Papua New Guinea), Australian anthropologist James F. Weiner explains that it was not possible for him to collect songpaths outside connections with the land; it was only by travelling through landscapes and towards places that the Foi people performed songpaths (Weiner, 2015: xi). For them, the action of walking cannot be divorced from the songpaths themselves.…”

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Beyond the sham of the emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography through decolonizing paths

Clément

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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This article contributes to the current debate on decolonizing geography. It explores rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography from Indigenous perspectives. After deconstructing the Enlightenment as an illusory way towards emancipation and critically exploring the heritage of geography regarding Indigenous peoples, this paper examines the Indigenous epistemologies that are considered counter-discourses that challenge western ‘regimes of truth’. It approaches Indigenous knowledges through decolonizing paths to capture the originality and strength of Indigenous epistemologies more fully, and re-centre Indigenous conceptual frameworks as offering new possibilities to write the ‘difference differently’ in human geography.

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Beyond the sham of the emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography through decolonizing paths

Clément

2017

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“…I last saw Jaimie—who was then still Jimmy Weiner—in 2015 at a conference in Oslo, where she had reluctantly agreed to take part in yet one more academic conference on resource development. In this same year, she and Don Niles produced an open access book, Songs of the Empty Place (Weiner 2015), with accompanying audio files, documenting Foi music Jaimie had recorded years earlier. She told me it was the last bit of Foi ethnography she had to publish.…”

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Jaimie Pearl Bloom (James F. Weiner) (1950–2020)

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2020

American Anthropologist

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“…In addition to his teaching duties there, Jimmy wrote his second book, The Empty Place: Poetry, Space, and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea (Weiner 1991). In that book he concentrated on another genre of Foi verbal art: their mourning songs, which are composed entirely by women (see also Weiner and Niles 2015). The main theoretical touchstone of The Empty Place was the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, with its emphasis on poetic language as a 'house of being'.…”

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Obituary: James F. Weiner / Jaimie Pearl Bloom (1950–2020)

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2020

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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After growing up in New York City James (Jimmy) Weiner attended Franklin and Marshall College, in Lancaster Pennsylvania (the heart of Amish country), where he was awarded a BA degree, cum laude, in 1973. He went on to do postgraduate work at Northwestern University, in Evanston Illinois. Northwestern is especially strong in African studies, and Jimmy originally intended to do his fieldwork in West Africa, focusing on a topic in economic anthropology. But in his first year at Northwestern he came under the spell of Roy Wagner and decided instead to focus on kinship and social structure in interior New Guinea. In 1974, he received his MA, for which his thesis topic was 'Kinship and Economics in the New Guinea Highlands: A Re-evaluation'. In 1975, on Wagner's advice, Jimmy shifted to the University of Chicago for his PhD work. There, over the next five years, under the supervision of Marshall Sahlins, David Schneider, Nancy Munn and Valerio Valeri, Jimmy underwent the intense PhD-level coursework and other U-of-C anthropological training that he later likened to a Special Forces Training Camp. One of the hurdles that all of its foot-soldiers are required to jump is to find their own fieldwork funding, none of which is offered by the university.

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Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Beyond the sham of the emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography through decolonizing paths

Beyond the sham of the emancipatory Enlightenment: Rethinking the relationship of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, and geography through decolonizing paths

Jaimie Pearl Bloom (James F. Weiner) (1950–2020)

Obituary: James F. Weiner / Jaimie Pearl Bloom (1950–2020)

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