Bibliography

@article{lepani_i_2015,

title = {‘I am Still a Young Girl if I Want’: Relational Personhood and Individual Autonomy in the Trobriand Islands},

author = {Katherine Lepani},

url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5073/abstract},

doi = {10.1002/ocea.5073},

issn = {1834-4461},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-03-01},

journal = {Oceania},

volume = {85},

number = {1},

pages = {51--62},

abstract = {In the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, sexuality is valued as a positive expression of relational personhood, registering the efficacy of consensual and pleasurable practice in producing and maintaining social relations. The power of sexuality to demonstrate individual and collective capacity and potential holds particular salience for unmarried young people. This paper draws on my ethnographic research on culture and HIV in the Trobriands to address perduring questions about the locus of individual autonomy in Melanesian sociality, where relational personhood shapes identity and modes of exchange in the moral economy. I focus on the gendered agency of youth sexuality, including the use of kwaiwaga, or love magic, in exercising and controlling desire. The narrative identities of two young women provide the lens through which questions of agency are explored, revealing how the autonomous mind, nanola, is central to understanding the embodiment of social relations, how the power of love magic transfers agency from one individual to another, and how individual assertions and acts are ultimately expressions of situated relationality.},

keywords = {gender, Trobriand Islands},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{mosko_cards_2014,

title = {Cards on Kiriwina: Magic, Cosmology, and the ‘Divine Dividual’ in Trobriand Gambling},

author = {Mark S Mosko},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ocea.5058},

doi = {10.1002/ocea.5058},

issn = {1834-4461},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-11-01},

journal = {Oceania},

volume = {84},

number = {3},

pages = {239--255},

abstract = {Trobriand Islanders adopted card gambling from Europeans in colonial times alongside a growing familiarity with introduced money and commodities. Most ethnographic reports of gambling elsewhere in PNG have concentrated on its secular aspects. Here I focus on its ritual dimension summarized by the notion of laki (‘lucky’) as expressed in the agentive capacities of a new player, the ‘divine dividual’, who synthesizes elements of Sahlins's ‘divine king’ and the ‘dividual’ of the New Melanesian Ethnography. In accord with the local understandings of spiritual agency, many Trobriand men have adapted pre-existing magical practices for courting, kula, fishing, sorcery etc. to gambling by seeking to encompass the perceived powers of exogenous Europeans, acknowledged as the sources of laki, money and commodities, into their own persons in ways analogous to traditional magicians' reliance upon baloma spirits. Trobriand gambling thus exemplifies how change following from the introduction of novel Western practices can be effectively accommodated to preexisting religious and cultural practices through indigenous modes of personhood and agency.},

keywords = {Trobriand Islands},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}