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- Title
On Academic Foucauldian-dramaturgy and Modernity in Melanesia.
- Authors
Mimica, Jadran
- Abstract
This short paper offers a critical reflection on the uses of Michel Foucault's ideas and the notion of 'modernity' which mark a current trend among so many ethnographers of Melanesian life-worlds. Through the examination of several ethnographic cases I show the limitations of these usages and, correlatively, advocate a more mindful epistemic regard for the cultural realities and the processes of transformations of Melanesian life-worlds in the present-day world-historical context.
- Subjects
MELANESIA; MODERNITY; FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; EPISTEMICS; ACADEMIC discourse
- Publication
Oceania, 2014, Vol 84, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5046