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At Play in the Fields (and Borders) of the Imaginary: Melanesian Transformations of Forgetting

1993; Wiley; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/can.1993.8.4.02a00020

1548-1360

Debbora Battaglia,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Cultural AnthropologyVolume 8, Issue 4 p. 430-442 At Play in the Fields (and Borders) of the Imaginary: Melanesian Transformations of Forgetting Debbora Battaglia, Debbora Battaglia Mount Holyoke CollegeSearch for more papers by this author Debbora Battaglia, Debbora Battaglia Mount Holyoke CollegeSearch for more papers by this author First published: November 1993 https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1993.8.4.02a00020Citations: 49AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References Cited Barth, Frederick 1990 The Guru and the Conjurer: Transactions in Knowledge and the Shaping of Culture in Southeast Asia and Melanesia. Man (n.s.) 25: 640– 653. Battaglia, Debbora 1990 On The Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Battaglia, Debbora 1991 Punishing the Yams: Leadership and Gender Ambivalence on Sabarl Island. In Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia. Maurice Godelier and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Pp. 83– 96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Battaglia, Debbora 1992a. The Body in the Gift: Memory and Forgetting in Sabarl Mortuary Exchange. American Ethnologist 19(1): 3– 18. Battaglia, Debbora 1992b. Displacing Culture: A Joke of Significance in Urban Papua New Guinea. New Literary History 23(4): 1003– 1017. Bourdieu, Pierre 1977 Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Casey, Edward 1987 Remembering: A Phenomenological Study. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Castoriadis, Cornelius 1975 L'Institution Imaginaire de la Société. Paris: Seuil. Connerton, Paul 1989 How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fred Damon, and Roy Wagner, eds. 1989 Death Rituals and Life in the Societies of the Kula Ring. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. Derrida, Jacques 1987 The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond. Alan Bass, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Fischer, Michael 1986 Ethnicity and Post-Modern Acts of Memory. In Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. James Clifford and George Marcus, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. Freud, Sigmund 189395 The Psychotherapy of Hysteria. In Studies on Hysteria. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. II. James Strachey, trans. Pp. 253– 311. London: Hogarth Press. Freud, Sigmund 1899 Screen Memories. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. III. James Strachey, trans. Pp. 303– 322. London: Hogarth Press. Freud, Sigmund 1927 The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. VI. James Strachey, trans. London: Hogarth Press. Freud, Sigmund 1930 [1929] Civilization and Its Discontents. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. XXI. James Strachey, trans. London: Hogarth Press. Gadamer, Hans-Georg 1975 Truth and Method. New York: Seabury Press. Josephides, Lisette 1991. Metaphors, Metathemes, and the Construction of Sociality: A Critique of the New Melanesian Ethnography. Man (n.s.) 26(1): 145– 161. Lacan, Jacques 1977 Ecrits: A Selection. Alan Sheridan, trans. New York: Norton. Lefort, Claude 1978 [1973–74] Esquisse d'une Genèse de L'Idéologie dans les Sociétés Modernes. In Les Formes de L'Histoire. Pp. 278– 329. Paris: Gallimard. Malinowski, Bronislaw 1948 [1916] Baloma: The Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands. In Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. Pp. 149– 254. New York: Doubleday. Nietzsche, Friedrich 1957 The Use and Abuse of History. Adrian Collins, trans. New York: Macmillan. Stafford-Clark, David 1971 What Freud Really Said. New York: Schocken. Strathern, Marilyn 1988 The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia. Berkeley: University of California Press. Thompson, John B. 1984 Studies in the Theory of Ideology. Cambridge: Polity Press. Weiner, Annette 1986 The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Citing Literature Volume8, Issue4November 1993Pages 430-442 ReferencesRelatedInformation