http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/10/14/ian-downs-dead/ Just. One. Column. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/10/14/ian-downs-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-67958 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » In Papua New Guinea’s Asaro Valley Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:51:03 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=212#comment-67958 [...] The Asaro Valley was where the first great ethnographer of highland New Guinea did his research—Kenneth Read. More than a few ‘classics’ (either essays or books) have been sited there or very close by, including Finney’s Bigmen and Business and Lorraine Sexton’s Mothers of Money, Daughters of Coffee. (Sexton’s work on women’s agency subsequently became an important ethnographic counternote to Read’s emphasis on male solidarity, and figured prominently in Marilyn Strathern’s later critique of Durkheimian paradigms as applied to Melanesian sociality.) The legendary planter and kiap Ian Downs lived in the valley for many years. Folks like Paige West and Pascale Bonnemère. [...] [...] The Asaro Valley was where the first great ethnographer of highland New Guinea did his research—Kenneth Read. More than a few ‘classics’ (either essays or books) have been sited there or very close by, including Finney’s Bigmen and Business and Lorraine Sexton’s Mothers of Money, Daughters of Coffee. (Sexton’s work on women’s agency subsequently became an important ethnographic counternote to Read’s emphasis on male solidarity, and figured prominently in Marilyn Strathern’s later critique of Durkheimian paradigms as applied to Melanesian sociality.) The legendary planter and kiap Ian Downs lived in the valley for many years. Folks like Paige West and Pascale Bonnemère. [...]

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