Hau Masterclass 2 - Index

LEARNING TO SEE IN MELANESIA Lectures given in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, 1993–2008 Marilyn Strathern

H AU M ASTERCLASS S ERIES Volume 2

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C O NTENTS EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Strathern bottle: On topology, ethnographic theory, and the method of wonder

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Giovanni DA COL, Universities of Bergen and Cambridge

THE MASTERCLASS Lecturer’s introduction: Learning to see in Melanesia Introduction Preliminary comments to the present lectures Notes for the reader Original outline and readings for the course Additional bibliography

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Lecturer’s acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments to publishers and authors

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1. Feathers and shells: Learning to see Preamble The photographer’s gallery The anthropologist’s context Interpretation: Learning to see

21 22 26 40 44

2. Axes and canoes: Traveling objects Exchange and travel in Hagen Travel and exchange in the Massim Are there some elements of a visual theory here?

55 58 81 93

3. Netbags and masks: Containers Backtracking Male and female: Mt. Ok netbags Center and periphery: Sepik (and other) masks On visual theory again

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4. Wig / shell / tree: Hiding forms A diversion on the interpretative exercise Two wigs from Huli Two shells form Wiru The Barok mortuary tree Why a visual theory?

Learning to see in Melanesia: A summary

125 126 128 134 140 145 152

Postscript to the lectures

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Appendix I: Artifacts of history: Events and the interpretation of images

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Appendix II: Social relations and the idea of externality

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Appendix III: Environments within: An ethnographic commentary on scale

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