In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional
cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies
and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living,
Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves
and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account
transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching
perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic
logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social
structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural
understandings that people make explicit in their actions and
speech. Using approaches from philosophy and anthropology, she
examines elicitation (how people create their selves and their
worlds in the act of making explicit) and mimesis (how
anthropologists produce ethnographies), to arrive at an unexpected
conclusion: that knowledge of self and other alike derives from
self-externalization rather than self-introspection.
Lisette Josephides is Reader in Anthropology at Queen's
University Belfast, following many years of fieldwork in Papua New
Guinea and teaching positions at the University of Papua New
Guinea, the London School of Economics and the University of
Minnesota.
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