[Anthropgrad] Seminar by Anton Ploeg

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*AUSTRALIAN**  NATIONAL  UNIVERSITY***

*Research** School** of Pacific & Asian Studies*

*DIVISION OF PACIFIC & ASIAN HISTORY*

Seminar notices are now published on our Homepage:

http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pah/seminars.php

11am -- 12 noon in _Seminar Room A_ (Room 1002), Coombs Building

 


  *Tuesday 29 April 2008*

*Anton Ploeg *-- Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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*A  PROBLEM  IN  WESTERN  DANI  ETHNOGRAPHY*

*Abstract*

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*The Western Dani are a large ethnic group, living in the western 
highlands of the Indonesian province of Papua. When Europeans first 
settled amongst them, in the early 1960s, it became soon clear that the 
Western Dani were an expanding group, both geographically and 
numerically. It is tempting to reconstruct the (pre)history of their 
migrations, but such reconstructions are confronted not only by the 
paucity of archaeological and ethno-historical data, but also by a 
series of sharp contrasts in the social organisations of the various 
Western Dani groups.  This seminar seeks to account for this contrast 
and to offer a tentative account of the Western Dani expansion.*

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*Anton Ploeg did field work among Western Dani in the early 1960s as a 
research scholar in what was then the Department of Anthropology & 
Sociology [sic] of RSPacS. His later field research took place in Papua 
New Guinea. After he had taken early retirement, in the early 90s, he 
started ongoing documentary research on the extant ethnography of the 
highlands of West Papua, reported on in part at this seminar.*

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*Hoang Oanh Collins
Pacific & Asian History Div.
Coombs Building 9, RSPAS ANU 0200
Tel: 02 6125  3106*

*Fax: 02 6125 5525*

*hoang.collins at anu.edu.au*

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