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Living in the Stone Age - Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Paperback)
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Living in the Stone Age - Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Paperback)
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In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as “living, as
it were, in the Stone Age.” For the most part, politicians and
scholars have since learned not to call people “primitive,” but
when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and for
decades has been used to justify denying their basic rights. Why
has this fantasy held such a tight grip on the imagination of
journalists, policy-makers, and the public at large? Living in the
Stone Age answers this question by following the adventures of
officials sent to the New Guinea highlands in the 1930s to
establish a foothold for Dutch colonialism. These officials became
deeply dependent on the good graces of their would-be Papuan
subjects, who were their hosts, guides, and, in some cases,
friends. Danilyn Rutherford shows how, to preserve their sense of
racial superiority, these officials imagined that they were
traveling in the Stone Age—a parallel reality where their own
impotence was a reasonable response to otherworldly conditions
rather than a sign of ignorance or weakness. Thus, Rutherford
shows, was born a colonialist ideology. Living in the Stone Age is
a call to write the history of colonialism differently, as a tale
of weakness not strength. It will change the way readers think
about cultural contact, colonial fantasies of domination, and the
role of anthropology in the postcolonial world.
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