 | Landscapes of Relations and Belonging: Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea Subjects: Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Vokeo Island; Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Vokeo Island; Ethnicity -- Papua New Guinea -- Vokeo Island; Geographical perception -- Papua New Guinea -- Vokeo Island; Vokeo Island (Papua New Guinea) -- Politics and; Wogeo Island is well-known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea through the work of Ian Hogbin. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. This innovative study demonstrates how Wogeo worldviews and social organization can be described in relation to terms of movements, flows and placements in the landscape while, in turn, the landscape is constituted and made meaningful through people's activities and buildings. The author not only addresses some of the key issues in contemporary anthropology concerning place, gender, kinship, knowledge and power but also fills an important gap in Melanesian ethnography. Astrid Anderson has a doctoral degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and is presently a senior academic librarian at the University of Oslo Library. Astrid Anderson has a doctoral degree in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and is presently a senior academic librarian at the University of Oslo Library. |
