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 # Ancestry ##
-## Ancestry and Indigenous Landownership in PNG ##
+## Ancestry and indigenous landownership in PNG ##
 Ryan Schram
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 ## Lecture outline ##
-* "Turn off the tap"
+* [[http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/well-turn-off-the-taps-png-chiefs-challenge-australian-bank-deal-20151009-gk58dq.html|"Turn off the taps"]]
     - The "chiefs" of Hela Province, Papua New Guinea want to cut off the gas pipeline.
-    - The "Kohonoleng clan" of Manus Province wants "spin off" benefits from the detention centre.
+    - The [[http://rschram.org/2013/12/31/manus/|"Kohonoleng clan" of Manus Province wants "spin off" benefits from the detention centre]].
     - Clans can incorporate themselves as Incorporated Landowning Groups (ILGs).
-    - Is this "entification": the making of new entities? Are these groups real?
+    - Is this "entification"--the making of new entities? Are these groups real?
 * The politics of landownership in PNG
     - Everyone is a villager, everyone is a landowner.
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           - Fasu people studied by Emma Gilberthorpe are a good example of a society based on place instead of descent.
           - Fasu people and others have had to document their ownership of their places in terms that make sense to the state.
 * Is registration of landownership "reification"?
     - [[:identity_and_contradiction|Dialectic]] as a theory of change: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
+        - A capitalist system is one in which capital is used to produce wealth. It is also a divided system, consisting one class which owns capital, and one class which does not, and who works.
+        - Colonialism is both the expansion of one society into new places, and it is the meeting of two cultures.
+    - Becoming a "landowner" in PNG is not natural. It is the outcome of a dialectic of recognition.
+    - Indigenous recognition often involves the reification of culture.
+    - An alternative view: PNG groups can perform multiple identities for different audiences.
+## References ##
+Garnaut, John. 2015. “PNG Chiefs Talk of Civil Unrest over Unpopular Australian Bank Deal.” The Sydney Morning Herald, October 11, sec. Business Day. http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/well-turn-off-the-taps-png-chiefs-challenge-australian-bank-deal-20151009-gk58dq.html.
+Schram, Ryan. 2013. “Frontier, Colony, Pre-Border: PNG’s Latest Role in Australian Sovereignty.” Ryan Schram: Notes on anthropology, Melanesia and cultural change, December 3. http://rschram.org/2013/12/31/manus/.