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 University of Sydney University of Sydney
  
-January 25, 2019+February 14, 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.+A {{ :talks:payback:schram_payback_beat_13feb19.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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 ===== Asking for compensation from the government ===== ===== Asking for compensation from the government =====
  
-Another article on the “compensation page” reports a roadblock erected by a hauslain outside of Kundiawa, the capital of the province. It first quotes the “spokesman” for the //hauslain//:+Another article on the “compensation page” reports a roadblock erected by a //hauslain// outside of Kundiawa, the capital of the province. It first quotes the “spokesman” for the //hauslain//:
  
   * “Mipela askim gavman long wokim kompensaisen long dispela graun bruk tripela (3) yia igo pinis. Tasol dispela askim bilong mipela igo nating na ino gat bekim ikam yet inap nau.”   * “Mipela askim gavman long wokim kompensaisen long dispela graun bruk tripela (3) yia igo pinis. Tasol dispela askim bilong mipela igo nating na ino gat bekim ikam yet inap nau.”
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   * News of compensation and fights take place in an alternative, Simbu modernity.   * News of compensation and fights take place in an alternative, Simbu modernity.
-  * Readers are not only addressed as Simbu, but as themselves members of hauslain who are likewise enmeshed in cycles of obligation and conflict.+  * Readers are not only addressed as Simbu, but as themselves members of //hauslain// who are likewise enmeshed in cycles of obligation and conflict.
   * Yet bringing kinship into the public sphere also entails the dematerialization of reciprocity. Compensation is a valid form of political action, but as a symbol of a claim to a relationship based on equivalence and mutual obligation.   * Yet bringing kinship into the public sphere also entails the dematerialization of reciprocity. Compensation is a valid form of political action, but as a symbol of a claim to a relationship based on equivalence and mutual obligation.
   * Alternative modernity and double-counsciousness are both steps in the same process of producing liberal subjects as ethnographic citizens.   * Alternative modernity and double-counsciousness are both steps in the same process of producing liberal subjects as ethnographic citizens.
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-Western Highlands Peace Committee. 2004. “Love Gift.” //Papua New Guinea Post-Courier//, April, 8.+Western Highlands Peace Committee. 2004. “Love Gift.” //Papua New Guinea Post-Courier//, April 2, 8.
  
  
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