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| - | ~~DECKJS~~ | ||
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| - | # "Pigs are our strong thing" # | ||
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| - | ## Ongka and the gift ## | ||
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| - | Ryan Schram | ||
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| - | Mills 169 (A26) | ||
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| - | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
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| - | Monday, August 3, 2015 | ||
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| - | Available at: http:// | ||
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| - | ## The Kula Ring ## | ||
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| - | ## Bagi ## | ||
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| - | (Necklace [*bagi*], late 20th century, Pacific Ethnographic Collection #80.1/3369, American Museum of Natural History) | ||
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| - | ## Mwali ## | ||
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| - | (Armband [*mwali*], late 20th century, Pacific Ethnographic Collection #80.1/3409, American Museum of Natural History) | ||
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| - | ## Look closely ## | ||
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| - | Vase or faces? (Rubin 1915) | ||
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| - | Which way is the cube oriented? (Necker 1832) | ||
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| - | ## Who is he? ## | ||
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| - | What do you notice about this person? (Nairn 1976) | ||
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| - | ## Let's watch ## | ||
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| - | We will watch the first part of // | ||
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| - | ## What did you think? ## | ||
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| - | Take out a piece of paper. Talk for a few minutes with the person or | ||
| - | people next to you. What questions do you have? What do you want to | ||
| - | know more about? What would be good to discuss in tutorial? | ||
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| - | Write down your questions and reactions. | ||
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| - | Now you can take that piece of paper to tutorial, and discuss your | ||
| - | ideas in class. | ||
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| - | ## Develop-man ## | ||
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| - | When eavesdropping on the PNG students, Marshall Sahlins hears the Pidgin word *developman*. But, he wonders, does that mean ' | ||
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| - | “The first commercial impulse of the local people is not to become just like [the West], but more like themselves” (Sahlins 1992, 13). | ||
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| - | As a Kewa leader once told an anthropologist (paraphrase): | ||
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| - | “Developman: | ||
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| - | ## What's next ## | ||
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| - | On Wednesday, we learn why Ongka must give moka, and must reciprocate | ||
| - | moka. The answer comes from the theories of **[[:Marcel Mauss]]**. | ||
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| - | We discuss why gifts create obligations: | ||
| - | reciprocate. | ||
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| - | We then talk about why this matters to understanding contemporary | ||
| - | society. | ||
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| - | ## References ## | ||
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| - | Anonymous. late 20th century, A.D. Armband. Shell, string, bead, seed, fiber, leaf (palm). 80.1/ 3409. Pacific Ethnographic Collection, American Museum of Natural History. http:// | ||
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| - | -----. late 20th century, A.D. Necklace. Shell, cord. 80.1/ 3369. Pacific Ethnographic Collection, American Museum of Natural History. http:// | ||
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| - | Nairn, Charlie. 1976. Ongka' | ||
| - | Television. http:// | ||
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| - | Necker, L. A. 1832. " | ||
| - | phaenomena seen in Switzerland; | ||
| - | occurs on viewing a figure of a crystal or geometrical solid" | ||
| - | and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 1(5): | ||
| - | 329-337. | ||
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| - | Rubin, Edgar. 1915. Synsoplevede figurer, studier i psykologisk | ||
| - | Analyse, Ite Del. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. | ||
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| - | ## A guide to the unit ## | ||
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