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Built in Niugini, 1 - Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover)
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Built in Niugini, 1 - Constructions in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover)
Series: The RAI Series
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The sequel to the acclaimed Made in Niugini, which explored in
unparalleled depth the material world of the Wola comprising
moveable artefacts, Built in Niugini continues Paul Sillitoe's
project in exemplary fashion, documenting the built environment,
architecture and construction techniques in a tour de force of
ethnography. But this is more than a book about building houses.
Sillitoe also shows how material constructions can serve to further
our understandings of intellectual constructions. Allowing his
ethnography to take the lead, and paying close attention to the
role of tacit understandings and know-how in both skilled work and
everyday dwelling, his close experiential analyses inform a
phenomenologically inflected discussion of profound philosophical
questions - such as what can we know of being-in-the-world - from
startlingly different cultural directions. The book also forms part
of a long-term project to understand a radically different
'economy', which is set in an acephalous order that extends
individual freedom and equality in a manner difficult to imagine
from the perspective of a nation-state - an intriguing way of
being-in-the-world that is entwined with tacit aspects of knowing
via personal and emotional experience. This brings us back to the
explanatory power of a focus on technology, which Sillitoe argues
for in the context of 'materiality' approaches that feature
prominently in current debates about the sociology of knowledge.
Archaeology has long been to the fore in considering technology and
buildings, along with vernacular architecture, and Sillitoe
contributes to a much-needed dialogue between anthropology and
these disciplines, assessing the potential and obstacles for a
fruitful rapprochement. Built in Niugini represents the culmination
of Sillitoe's luminous scholarship as an anthropologist who
dialogues fluidly with the literature and ideas of numerous
disciplines. The arguments throughout engage with key concepts and
theories from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, material
culture studies, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy.
The result is a significant work that contributes to not only our
regional knowledge of the New Guinea Highlands but also to studies
of tacit knowledge and the anthropology of architecture and
building practices. Trevor Marchand, Emeritus Professor of Social
Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies
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