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Confession, Anger and Cross-Cultural Articulation in Papua New Guinea (Social THOUGHT & COMMENTARY SPECIAL SECTION: Anthropology and the Opacity of Other Minds) (Report)

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  • Title: Confession, Anger and Cross-Cultural Articulation in Papua New Guinea (Social THOUGHT & COMMENTARY SPECIAL SECTION: Anthropology and the Opacity of Other Minds) (Report)
  • Author : Anthropological Quarterly
  • Release Date : January 22, 2008
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 258 KB

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As will be evident from our introductory essay, the impetus for this Social Thought and Commentary section has come in part from our puzzlement at the co-occurrence within Melanesianist ethnography of two apparently contradictory motifs. One is the widely reported idea that one can never know what is in the minds of others, partly because what they say cannot be taken as a reliable indicator of what they are thinking. The other motif is the rising prominence of various more-or-less institutionalized practices of confession, as exemplified with respect to indigenized Christianity by the Urapmin example discussed by Robbins. These practices of confession would seem to stand in a problematical relationship to claims about the impossibility of knowing what is in the mind of another, since that is precisely what they would seem to be designed to reveal. The essays by Robbins and Schieffelin address this problem by taking the "opacity" motif as their starting point and then considering new practices of confession and how they impact upon speech communities whose preexisting language ideologies would seem to deny the reliability or appropriateness of such disclosure. Here I approach the problem from the other way around, by looking first at practices of confession and then asking how they do or do not relate to linguistic ideologies. One point of this will be to show that, in at least some Melanesian locales, practices of confession did not begin only with the arrival of Christianity--that there were earlier forms of it which continue to be practiced alongside, and sometimes in tension with, the church-related ones.


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