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 # Ancestry ## # Ancestry ##
  
-## Ancestry and Indigenous Landownership in PNG ##+## Ancestry and indigenous landownership in PNG ##
  
 Ryan Schram  Ryan Schram 
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 * [[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"]] * [[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 "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).     - 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 * The politics of landownership in PNG
     - Everyone is a villager, everyone is a landowner.     - Everyone is a villager, everyone is a landowner.
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 * Is registration of landownership "reification"? * Is registration of landownership "reification"?
     - [[:identity_and_contradiction|Dialectic]] as a theory of change: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.     - [[: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. +        - 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.+        - 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.     - 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.     - Indigenous recognition often involves the reification of culture.
 +    - An alternative view: PNG groups can perform multiple identities for different audiences.
  
 ## References ## ## References ##
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 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. 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. http://rschram.org/2013/12/31/manus/.+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/.
  
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