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Extra resources for Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject (Pacific Islands Monograph Series)
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But the indigenous discourse of place has been subsumed and erased by the dominant European model through the agency of powerful colonial discourse. Transforming Space into Indigenous Place For virtually all the diverse cultural and linguistic groups in Papua New Guinea, place is both a location and an embodiment and extension of the peoples’ cultural and historical experience. While Papua New Guineans had no name for the whole country, nevertheless they had local names for the particular places they occupied.
As Mike Gidley has argued, “all representations involve what [Howard S Becker (1986)] summmarises as processes of ‘selection,’ ‘translation,’ ‘arrangement,’ and ‘interpretation’” (Gidley 1992, 4). In other words, representation is culturally engaged, and what is represented is dictated by the culture of the representer. Said put it aptly in his discourse on Orientalism, when he posited that “there is no such thing as a delivered presence, but a re-presence, or a representation” (1978, 21; italics in original).
Our fathers lived and died here. Their sweat and blood fell on this land. Their sweat and blood are the strength and wealth of this land, and we want our own sweat and our blood to be spilled here for our children. We cannot give our strength to other villages and other people’s land. 1st Man: We make our gardens on our own land, we hunt in our own hunting grounds, where spirits and ancestors know us well. Our fathers owned this land, this village and the spirits before we were born. We can never move to the big village.