Micro, Macro, Agency: Historical Ethnography as Cultural Anthropology Practice

Fenske, Michaela; Bendix, John

doi:10.2979/jfr.2007.44.1.67

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“…The approach used in this research is a qualitative approach, with a descriptive type that presents a detailed description of a specific situation, social setting or social relations (Neuman, 2006). Historical ethnographic narratives construct this description of the social situation to understand the social background of the studied community (Fenske & Bendix, 2007). This approach was chosen to discern objects by studying various social phenomena in their natural environment and understanding these phenomena based on the interpretations of the people who live or experience them first-hand (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005).…”

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The Consequences of Sago Planting Hamlet Program on Socio-Cultural Changes of The Kamoro in Mimika Papua

Erwinsyah¹

2022

Bhumi: j.pertanah.

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This study examines the consequences of various agrarian policies and development programs on the Kamoro community in Mimika Regency, Papua Province. As a result of FI Mining activities, the Kamoro people, who were originally nomads on their customary lands, were relocated to permanent settlement where they were introduced to intensive farming systems, one of which was the Sago Planting Hamlet (SPH/DST) Program that brought modern sago farming management. There was a contradiction because the Kamoro people have been accustomed to rice as their staple for decades due to the national food policy during the New Order era and the damage to their ecological environment, especially wild sago forests. This study tries to see how the socio-cultural consequences in the community since the implementation of intensive agricultural programs are relatively new to them. Research question were answered through a descriptive qualitative approach, with primary data from in-depth interviews and participatory observations, supported by secondary data from the archive and document searches, also spatial data from Landsat imagery. The results showed that the implementation of the DST Program brought the consequences of socio-cultural changes to the Kamoro people, which included adjustments to social organization, livelihoods, and natural resource management. What happened to the Kamoro: the collapse of the production, reproduction, and consumption systems of society due to the alienation of traditional living cultures that rely on the availability of natural sources of livelihood, has made the Kamoro undeveloped. Keywords: Intensive agriculture, Kamoro, sago plantations, socio-cultural changes

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The Consequences of Sago Planting Hamlet Program on Socio-Cultural Changes of The Kamoro in Mimika Papua

Erwinsyah¹

2022

Bhumi: j.pertanah.

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“…Historical ethnography is the practice of regarding "the archive itself…as a locus of research" [27] and by using archival materials in ethnographic work, we can uncover tensions between the present and the past which might otherwise have remained hidden [27]. Initially we hoped to access the Kenyan National Archives to locate maps, images and reports from the colonial era to provide historical context.…”

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“It Will Be a Desert”: Extreme Weather and the Effects of Climate Catastrophe on Vulnerable Riparian Spaces in Nairobi, Kenya

Howland

2024

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Urban riparian spaces are notoriously vulnerable, and pressure on water resources is growing. In the context of a fast-growing urban population and a lack of state-level structures and services to deal with water and sanitation, these spaces—including both land and water—are rapidly being degraded. Ongata Rongai, a satellite town in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area, is one of these spaces. Traditional livelihoods exist cheek-by-jowl with modern life; livestock are watered at the rivers, lions frequent the riverbanks, large commercial farms extract water for crops, industrial factories release heavy metal contaminants into the rivers, and rapidly constructed poor-quality apartment blocks with no provision for human waste release untreated sewage and dump trash into the rivers. Compounding these anthropogenic impacts is that of climate change. Riparian spaces have become sites where humans and animals fight for access to water and riparian space, and rain becomes less reliable or frequent, yet at other times, these spaces experience flash flooding and catastrophic water levels leading to the destruction of land. This study explores the dynamics of a rapidly changing riparian environment which finds itself dominated by urbanity, under the increasing pressure of anthropogenic climate change using a One Health perspective. This study contributes much needed human voices to a growing body of literature led by indigenous Kenyan scholars, calling for urgent structural level action to conserve urban riparian zones for the benefit of human and non-human actors.

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“…Den tyska etnologen Mikaela Fenske skriver om hur "fältarbetet i arkiven" lätt blir uppslukande. 37 Hon tillhör den tradition som under de senaste årtiondena kombinerat historiska perspektiv med metoder hämtade från etnologi och antropologi. Inte minst i de tyskspråkiga delarna av Europa har etnografiskt präglade historiska studier blivit vanliga.…”

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Lennartsson²

2021

Bakom Stadens Kulisser. Genus Och Gränser I Stockholm 1800 – 2000

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Micro, Macro, Agency: Historical Ethnography as Cultural Anthropology Practice

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

The Consequences of Sago Planting Hamlet Program on Socio-Cultural Changes of The Kamoro in Mimika Papua

The Consequences of Sago Planting Hamlet Program on Socio-Cultural Changes of The Kamoro in Mimika Papua

“It Will Be a Desert”: Extreme Weather and the Effects of Climate Catastrophe on Vulnerable Riparian Spaces in Nairobi, Kenya

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