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 ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au
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 +Presented to the anthropology department seminar at Australian National University
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 +Seminar Room A/B, Australian Centre for China in the World
  
 2 September 2015 2 September 2015
  
-Available at http://anthro.rschram.org/talks/taparoro+Slides available at http://anthro.rschram.org/talks/taparoro 
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-## Let's Tapwalolo ##+## Let's tapwalolo ##
  
 In Auhelawa, a society on the south coast of Normanby Island (PNG), tapwalolo refers to Christianity as institution, practice, identity, and belief system. In Auhelawa, a society on the south coast of Normanby Island (PNG), tapwalolo refers to Christianity as institution, practice, identity, and belief system.
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-## The South Sea Islands as Contact Zone and Mission Field ## 
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-Florence Young, faith missionary of Bundaberg: “salvation before education or civilization” (Griffin 2013) 
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-William Bromilow, the founder of the Dobu mission, writes, "The possession of a Bible can multiply the work of the missionary a thousandfold [...] If he can leave a Bible, he leaves the post occupied" (W. E. Bromilow 1929, 202). 
  
 ## Taparoro: The Anglican mission at Dogura ## ## Taparoro: The Anglican mission at Dogura ##
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 Bromilow describes a trip to Ware and Tubetube islands. He reports speaking first to a Ware man:  Bromilow describes a trip to Ware and Tubetube islands. He reports speaking first to a Ware man: 
  
-As one of them said, **"Me likee misoneri too much ! altogether Ware man likee whitee man misoneri. Come – what for whitee man go Dobu, no come here? This good fellow place—no kaikai (eat) man, altogether savee taparoro (religion.)"** I was much amused at the conceit of the folks, who nearly all speak "pidgin" English. "This place very good, all same Cooktown. Man he savee sail about. He savee too much." (Bromilow 1891, 5)+As one of them said, ** "Me likee misoneri too much ! altogether Ware man likee whitee man misoneri. Come – what for whitee man go Dobu, no come here? This good fellow place—no kaikai (eat) man, altogether savee taparoro (religion.)" ** I was much amused at the conceit of the folks, who nearly all speak "pidgin" English. "This place very good, all same Cooktown. Man he savee sail about. He savee too much." (Bromilow 1891, 5)
  
 Describing his movement to the neighboring island of Tubetube, he then writes:  Describing his movement to the neighboring island of Tubetube, he then writes: 
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-## They say 'taparoro': The Bromilows ## 
  
-[Sunday, August 2, 1891] One woman wanted to know why we were not content with having 'taparoro' at our own station instead of coming right into the villages and so interrupting the work she was doing. (W. E. Bromilow 1891a, 11) 
  
-The attitude of the elderly women of Dobu has greatly changed, and from saying 'What! is taparoro food?' they now say 'What! are we not taparoro?' (H. L. Bromilow 1898) 
  
-## They say 'taparoro': J. T. Field ## 
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-At the close I asked the people if they were willing to give up these evil practices and observe the Sabbath, etc.; they answered that now the missionaries had come to Dobu, they were going to adhere to 'taparoro.' I then told them to bury the skulls on Monday morning. This they promised to do. (Field 1891, 15) 
  
 ## Other quotations of taparoro ## ## Other quotations of taparoro ##
  
 Our house was literally swarming with natives who had gathered to 'taparoro' (worship). (Field 1891, 12) Our house was literally swarming with natives who had gathered to 'taparoro' (worship). (Field 1891, 12)
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 +The Gospel, or taparoro as they call it, was something they could not understand. (Field 1892, 6)
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 +[T]hey would have 'taparoro' or prayers before going to bed. (Field 1893, 3)
  
 The Sunday services on the whole are well attended, the novelty of 'taparoro' (worship) having worn off, it is found at times no easy task to maintain the work at a high standard. (Australasian Methodist Missionary Society 1895, xix) The Sunday services on the whole are well attended, the novelty of 'taparoro' (worship) having worn off, it is found at times no easy task to maintain the work at a high standard. (Australasian Methodist Missionary Society 1895, xix)
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 +## "Taparoro is the calico we put on": H. L. Bromilow ##
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 +Last Monday a question was put to them, “What is taparoro?” and one girl said, “Taparoro is the calico we put on.” In that answer there was a golden opportunity to tell them, “Taparora is not calico or anything else that we use; but Jesus in your heart. Do you know what I mean, little one?” The answer came, “Yes, a little, marama [lady].” Others said, “We can't hear,” meaning, “We cannot understand.” (H. L. Bromilow quoted in Bromilow 1893, 6)
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 +## "i.e. the Christian religion": W. E. Bromilow ##
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 +A child died the other day, and the friends were quite angry because the witches had not heeded the words of the lotu, i.e. the Christian religion Taparoro, and given up smiting the little ones. "These are times of peace," said they; "why should the child die then?" We, of course, took the opportunity and tried to teach them that sickness caused death without the influence of poor old women. (W. E. Bromilow quoted in Brown 1910, 235–236)
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 +## "Observe the Sabbath, etc.": J. T. Field ##
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 +At the close I asked the people if they were willing to give up these evil practices and observe the Sabbath, etc.; they answered that now the missionaries had come to Dobu, they were going to adhere to 'taparoro.' I then told them to bury the skulls on Monday morning. This they promised to do. (Field 1891, 15)
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 ## Translating with taparoro: New words ## ## Translating with taparoro: New words ##
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 ## Translating with taparoro: Parallels ## ## Translating with taparoro: Parallels ##
  
-* English,             Dobu,           Fijian,                 Samoan,         Page in Bromilow 1904 +{{ :taparoro_table.png |Taparoro in Bromilow's 1904 mission vocabulary}} 
-* Christian,             To tapwaroro,   Tamata lotu,             Tagata lotu, 22 + 
-* Church (building),     Anua tapwaroro,   Vale ni lotu,             Fale lotu,     29 +(Bromilow 1904)
-* Church (membership),    Ekalesia,       Curu siga,             I le ekalesia, 29 +
-* Congregation,         To tapwaroro,   Vavakoso, dau rogo vunau, Fa'apotopotaga, 29 +
-* Creed (Apostles),     Tapwaroro 'arena, Vakabauta,             Talitonu,     29 +
-* Religion (Christian), Tapwaroro,       Lotu,                     Lotu,         107+
  
 ## Stanley Iatara: The Panaeati jubilee, 1941 ## ## Stanley Iatara: The Panaeati jubilee, 1941 ##
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 ## References ## ## References ##
  
-Bromilow, Harriet Lilly. 1898. “Mrs. Bromilow’s Report.” In Report of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society for the Year Ending March, 1898, lxix. Sydney: Samuel E. Lees, Printer. 
  
-Bromilow, William E. 1891a. “New Guinea: Extracts from My Journal.” The Australian Methodist Missionary Review (Sydney), October. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.+Bromilow, William E. 1891. “Three Weeks in the ‘Dove.’” The Australian Methodist Missionary Review (Sydney), December. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
  
-———. 1891b. “Three Weeks in the ‘Dove.’” The Australian Methodist Missionary Review (Sydney), December. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.+———. 1893. “Letter from Mr. Bromilow.” Australasian Methodist Missionary Review, January 6.
  
 ———. 1904. Vocabulary of English Words, With Equivalents. Geelong, Vic.: H. Thacker, Printer. ———. 1904. Vocabulary of English Words, With Equivalents. Geelong, Vic.: H. Thacker, Printer.
  
 ———. 1929. Twenty Years Among Primitive Papuans. London: Epworth Press. ———. 1929. Twenty Years Among Primitive Papuans. London: Epworth Press.
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 +———. 1910. Melanesians and Polynesians: Their Life-Histories Described and Compared. London: Macmillan and Co.
  
 Field, J. T. 1891. “Report from Dobu.” The Australian Methodist Missionary Review (Sydney), December. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Field, J. T. 1891. “Report from Dobu.” The Australian Methodist Missionary Review (Sydney), December. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
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 +———. 1892. “Extracts from My Journal.” Australasian Methodist Missionary Review, April 4.
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 +———. 1893. “Extracts from Letter from Rev. J. T. Field, Tubetube.” Australasian Methodist Missionary Review, February 4.
  
 Hanks, William F. 2014. “The Space of Translation.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (2): 17–39. doi:10.14318/hau4.2.002. Hanks, William F. 2014. “The Space of Translation.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (2): 17–39. doi:10.14318/hau4.2.002.
  
-Griffin, Helga M. 2013. “Young, Florence Selina Harriet (1856–1940).” In Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Accessed November 11. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/young-florence-selina-harriet-9214.+King, Copland. 1899. A History of the New Guinea Mission, 1891-1901. Sydney: W. A. Pepperday and Co.
  
 Stone-Wigg, M. J. 1907. “The Papuans, a People of the South Pacific.” In Mankind and the Church Being an Attempt to Estimate the Contribution of Great Races To the Fulness of the Church of God, edited by H. H. Montgomery, 51–69. London: Longmans, Green and Co. http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/hhmontgomery/mankind1907/stone-wigg03.html. Stone-Wigg, M. J. 1907. “The Papuans, a People of the South Pacific.” In Mankind and the Church Being an Attempt to Estimate the Contribution of Great Races To the Fulness of the Church of God, edited by H. H. Montgomery, 51–69. London: Longmans, Green and Co. http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/hhmontgomery/mankind1907/stone-wigg03.html.
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