[Anthropgrad] Friday seminar August 10th

[Nelia.Hyndman-Rizik at anu.edu.au]

Dear all,

 

We have a seminar this Friday the 10th of August at 3pm in the Milgate Room
in the AD Hope Building.

 

The presenter will be Anika Koenig

 

The title of the paper is "Tradition Reinvented: Headhunting in the Context
of Ethnic Conflict in Kalimantan, Indonesia"

 

Abstract:

 

This pre-fieldwork presentation will deal with my intended research on the
relation between ethnic conflict, reinvented tradition, and ethnic identity.
It will be concerned with the large-scale ethnic conflicts in Kalimantan,
Indonesia, in the mid-1990s and in 2001 that left hundreds of Madurese
immigrants dead and forced hundreds of thousands to flee the island. Many of
the Madurese victims were decapitated which has frequently been interpreted,
both by indigenous Dayaks as well as outside observers, as a recurrence of
traditional headhunting which had been practiced by some Dayak groups until
the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century. Others have denied the
connection between tradition and the decapitations in the course of the
current ethnic conflicts. I suggest, instead, that traditional elements have
been incorporated into new conflicts and thereby become a 'reinvented
tradition' which is strongly linked to the construction of a new and common
Dayak identity.  

 

Hope to see you all there,

 

 

Nelia Hyndman-Rizik

PhD Candidate

School of Archaeology and Anthropology

The Australian National University

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@anu.edu.au

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Mobile: 0437 600 157

 

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