Ethnography and philology

Hale, Horatio

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“…The Polynesian islanders, on the other hand, have always received them with a clamorous welcome and apparent friendship. (Hale, 1986(Hale, [1846: 73)…”

Section: Ethnography and Empirementioning

confidence: 96%

The Uncontrollable Afterlives of Ethnography

Steinmetz

2004

Ethnography

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How does the work of ethnographers contribute to policies they did not anticipate, policies they may even abhor? This article explores the ways 19th-century Europeans who would never have considered themselves as policymakers or even policy wonks – writers, artists, missionaries, and ethnographers – influenced colonial ‘native policy’. The article focuses on the case of precolonial European representations of Polynesia (Samoa in particular), tracing the effects of these discourses on the foundational process of colonial state formation in German Samoa after 1900. German colonialism in China and Southwest Africa is also discussed. Both the form and the content of ethnographic discourse influenced colonial interventions, even if these effects were dependent on a contingent array of other determinants. The conclusion discusses various ways in which ethnographers can try to see that their writings are not enrolled into political projects to which they might object.

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“…The Polynesian islanders, on the other hand, have always received them with a clamorous welcome and apparent friendship. (Hale, 1986(Hale, [1846: 73)…”

Section: Ethnography and Empirementioning

confidence: 96%

The Uncontrollable Afterlives of Ethnography

Steinmetz

2004

Ethnography

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“…Exploring Expedition, he passed on the views of the missionaries about the rise and fall of the waganna. 103 Hale noted that the dance had ceased three years earlier, in 1835, when Watson wrote his first detailed comments on the dance. Despite Hale's pronouncement, however, the cult did not disappear after the death of Gentlemen Jackey in April 1835.…”

Section: The Baiame Waganna 1833-5mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…125 At Wellington, according to Hale, Tharrawiirgal's motivation in bring-ing smallpox was that he was ''vexed for want of a tomahawk,'' and the visitation of the smallpox is said to end when Tharrawiirgal's tomahawk is returned. 126 A tomahawk was, of course, an item introduced by Europeans, though we cannot be sure which indigenous object might be referred to by this term. 127 However, a tomahawk was one of the attributes of Daramulun depicted in sand sculptures and other representations on the bora ground.…”

Section: The Baiame Waganna 1833-5mentioning

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Smallpox and the Baiame Waganna of Wellington Valley, New South Wales,1829-1840: The Earliest Nativist Movement in Aboriginal Australia

Carey¹,

Roberts²

2002

Ethnohistory

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Of all the various infections that afflicted Aboriginal people in Australia during the years of first contact with Europeans, smallpox was the most disastrous. The physical and social impacts of the disease are well known. This article considers another effect of the contagion. It is argued that a nativist movement in the form of a waganna (dance ritual) associated with the Wiradjuri spirit Baiame and his adversary Tharrawiirgal was linked to the aftermath of the disease as it was experienced at the settlement site of the Wellington Valley of New South Wales (). The discovery of this movement is of considerable significance for an understanding of Aboriginal responses to colonization in southeastern Australia. It is the earliest well-attested nativist movement in Australian ethnohistory.

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“…Missionaries like Samuel Marsden (1932) and William Ellis (1830) were no less fascinated by the puzzle, and offered scenarios they thought would account for the peopling of Oceania. The missionaries were followed by an array of early ethnologists, writing in the latter part of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth centuries, including Hale (1846), Lang (1877), Fornander (1878-85), Fraser (1895), Brown (1907), Smith (1910), Friederici (1914) and Dixon (1920). 2 During the 1920s and 1930s, the Bishop Museum ALAN HOWARD is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii.…”

Section: Early Historical Genresmentioning

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History in Polynesia; Changing perspectives and current issues

Howard

1993

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Ethnography and philology

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The Uncontrollable Afterlives of Ethnography

The Uncontrollable Afterlives of Ethnography

Smallpox and the Baiame Waganna of Wellington Valley, New South Wales,1829-1840: The Earliest Nativist Movement in Aboriginal Australia

History in Polynesia; Changing perspectives and current issues

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