Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
On image and artefact systems
Comparisons
Multiplicity
Repetition
Transformation
The body
Structure of the book
Part I - Attending to time: process, action and sequence
Part 2 - Navigating possible worlds: surfaces, patterns and shapes
Part 3 - Moving between intersecting worlds: witnessing and questioning
Note
References
Part I: Attending to time: Process, action and sequence
1. Asia-Pacific legacies in Eastern Kula Ring outrigger canoes
Introduction
The scene
The analysis
Conclusion
Notes
References
2. The living shape of time: Time and technics in the case of Abulës-speakers yams
Introduction: can time be of the essence?
Yams short ethnography
Yams as time machines
The spatiotemporal creation of Abelam Yams
Yams as timeless beings: the immortal individual
Ceremonies as pause and framing
Conclusion: paatë and tulë as the shapes of time
Notes
References
3. The lost writing and the drawn thought: Shamanic reflections on knowledge and temporality among the Marubo (Western Amazonia)
Introduction
Amazonian shamanic iconographies
Paulino Memãpa's drawings
Shamanistic speculative thought and the politics of writing
Final remarks
Notes
References
Part II: Navigating possible worlds: Surfaces, patterns and shapes
4. Primeval skins: the rugged and the smooth surface: Cultural keynotes and accords in the Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea
Introduction
Keynote and accords
Keynote and skins: crocodile-man and yam-child
Skin and body
Riverine accords: incising the skin - transferring properties
Horticulturalist accords: cultivating and implanting a smooth skin
Conclusion
Notes
References
5. A meditation on time: Pattern and relational ontologies in Northwestern Amazonia
Introduction
Birth: the changing of clothes, body and design
Kene: a spatio-temporal topography
1. Yube the moon
Too close, incestuous brother dies
2. Muka and the origin of design
Too distant, animal lover is killed
3. The great deluge: revenge of the fish people
Too distant, fish people take revenge
4. Napu ainbu
Excess of reciprocity with what is too close
Conclusion: design and the world of the dead
Notes
References
6. Biographical relations in Amerindian and Melanesian societies
Time and repetition - nudsugana and the articulation of continuous differences
The Soul Canoe - malanggan and the articulation of difference as continuity
Conclusions
References
Part III: Moving between intersecting worlds: Witnessing and questioning
7. Changing houses: Architectural transformations in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Introduction
Transformation of Shuar houses
Transformation of Macabeo houses
Concrete capitalism
Conclusion
Note
References
8. Returned not remade: Visuality, authority and potentiality of digital objects in a Melanesian Society
Introduction
Melanesian visual systems
Mobile museum project in the Nalik context
Digital mediated stories and object engagements
The value of the digital image
Conclusion: content and structure
Notes
References
Epilogue: Images, ritual action, and deep time
References
Index