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Forgetful and memorious landscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2004

SIMON HARRISON
SIMON HARRISON
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, BT52 1SA, United [email protected]
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Abstract

This article discusses human alterations to the landscape in a lowland Papua New Guinea society, arguing that the ways in which people structure their practical, everyday interactions with the physical environment can embody culturally-specific theories of memory, forgetting and the political uses of knowledge.

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Research Article
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Social Anthropology , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 135 - 151
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2004

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Footnotes

A grant from the British Academy enabled me to carry out fieldwork at Avatip in 2000. I thank Mrs Sharon Malcolm of the IT Users Services Division at the University of Ulster for preparing the maps, and Michael O'Hanlon and other members of the Pitt Rivers Museum lunchtime seminar for their comments on an earlier version of this article.