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--- talks:payback [2019/01/24 17:23] – [The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea] Ryan Schram (admin)
+++ talks:payback [2019/01/27 19:14] – [Abstract] Ryan Schram (admin)
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 University of Sydney
-January 23, 2019
+January 25, 2019
 A {{ :talks:payback:schram_payback_beat_25jan19.pdf |paper}} presented in //The State and the Dynamics of Enslavement//, a workshop held at Deakin University, February 13-15, 2019. Slides and paper are available at: http://anthro.rschram.org/talks/payback.
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 ### Abstract
-Unlike many postcolonial nations, Papua New Guinea defines itself through ethnographic citizenship in which members of its population are united in the empirical fact that they have an origin in some kind of indigenous society, rather than a common cultural tradition. Ethnographic citizens depend on a functionalist sociological analysis in order to have standing in the PNG public sphere. People’s inalienable belonging to kinship institutions and their enduring obligations to fellow members of rural communities are matters of public discourse, yet the preeminent value of relationships underlying these modes of sociality are disqualifying stigmata in a liberal order. Journalism for rural audiences in PNG illustrates the emergence of a public knowledge of cultural difference in which indigenous collective life enters into the political sphere. **Keywords:** media discourse, newsgathering, journalism, violence, stereotypes, Tok Pisin
+Unlike many postcolonial nations, Papua New Guinea defines itself through ethnographic citizenship in which members of its population are united in the empirical fact that they have an origin in some kind of indigenous society, rather than a common cultural tradition. In order to have standing in the PNG public sphere, people are required to produce knowledge of themselves as subjects of a integrated, functional social order. This poses an acute dilemma: one's inalienable belonging and enduring obligations to fellow members of a rural community---typically grounded in forms of kinship---are matters of public discourse, yet the preeminent value of relationships underlying these modes of sociality are potentially disqualifying stigmata in a liberal order. In this paper, I examine journalism for rural audiences in PNG as a site where alternative public discourses of collective life emerge. In *Simbu Nius*, a provincial news magazine, rural clans figure prominently as agents in local news events, yet the recognition of their reciprocal interrelationships is always haunted by the stereotype of tribal retaliation and so they remain precariously situated on the edge of the liberal public sphere. **Keywords:** media discourse, newsgathering, journalism, violence, stereotypes, Tok Pisin
 ===== The love gift =====
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 In response to a murder in Mount Hagen town in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Western Highlands Peace Committee was formed to raise funds for a “love gift.” They claimed that it was based on Highlands tradition, but stressed that it was not compensation.
-{{talks:payback:love-gift.png| “Love Gift,” a display advertisement placed in the PNG //Post-Courier// in response to the killing of Alan Mourilyan on April 2, 2004 (Western Highlands Peace Committee 2004).}}
+{{ :talks:payback:love-gift-small.png |“Love Gift,” a display advertisement placed in the PNG //Post-Courier// in response to the killing of Alan Mourilyan on April 2, 2004 (Western Highlands Peace Committee 2004).}}
 ===== Ethnographic citizenship in PNG =====