Operation restore public hope: Youth and the magic of modernity in vanuatu

Oceania

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-50

  Mitchell, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Police; Sorcery; Vanuatu; Violence; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952981006     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2011.tb00092.x     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.1998. Vanuatu: No Safe Place for Prisoners. AI 44/01/98 http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA44/001/1998/en/e4ed713cd9e4- lldd-af2b-blf6023af0c5lasa440011998en.pdf(accessed February 10, 2010)
2. Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/vanuatu/vanuatu brief.html (accessed March 14, 2010)
3. BAZELEY, P. and B. MULLEN, 2006. Report on Vanuatu Economic Opportunities. Fact-Finding Mission. AusAid and NZAIDpp 1-72.
4. BOLTON, L. 1999. Introduction. In Fieldwork, Fieldworkers: Developments in Vanuatu Research. Theme Issue. Oceania 70 (l):43-45
5. BONG, P.1998. Bong says he will push for law to recognize custom chiefs, Vanuatu Trading Post, January 24:5.
6. BUCHOLTZ,M. 2002. Youth and Cultural Practice. Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 525-552. (Pubitemid 38973462)
7. COMAROFF, J. and J.L. COMAROFF, (eds.) 1993. Modernity and Malcontents: Ritual and power in postcolonial Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
8. COMAROFF, J. and J.l. COMAROFF, 1999. Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Post Colony. American Ethnologist 26 (2): 279-303.
9. COMAROFF, J. and J.L. COMAROFF, 2007. Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. Social Anthropology 15:2 133-152.
10. CUMMINGS, M. 2005. 'Who Wears the Trousers in Vanuatu'? In (eds.) A. Meneley and D. Young, Auto-Ethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices. Peterborough: Broadview Press
11. DAS, V. and D. POOLE, (eds.) 2004. Anthropology in the Margins. Santa Fe: School of American Research Seminar.
12. DELEUZE, G. and F. GUATTARI, 1987. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London: Continuum.
13. DINNEN S. 2000. Violence and governance in Melanesia-an introduction. Dinnen, S and Ley, A. (eds.) 2000. Reflections on Violence in Melanesia. Canberra Hawkins Press/Asia Pacific Press
14. DINNEN, S and A. MCLEOD, 2009. Policing Melanesia-international expectations and local realities. Policing & Society. 19 (4). 333-353
15. DOUGLAS, B. 1998. Traditional Individuals? Gendered Negotiations of Identity, Christianity and Citizenship in Vanuatu. Discussion Paper No. 98/6. State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project. Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
16. DURHAM, D. 2000. Youth and the Social Imagination in Africa: Introduction to Parts 1 and 2, Anthropological Quarterly 73 (3): 113-120.
17. ENGLUND, H. 1996. Witchcraft, Modernity and the Person: The Morality of Accumulation in Central Malawi, Critique of Anthropology 16 (3):257-79. (Pubitemid 126337185)
18. FOSTER, R. (eds.) 1997. Nation Making: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
19. GABLE, E. 2000. The Culture Development Club: Youth, Neo-tradition, and the Construction of Society in Guinea-Bissau. Anthropological Quarterly 73 (4): 195-203. (Pubitemid 33214194)
20. GESCHIERE, P. 1992. Kinship, Witchcraft and the Market: Hybrid Patterns in Cameroonian Societies. In R. Dilley, (ed.) Contesting Markets, Analyses of Ideology, Discourse and Practice, pp.131-158 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
21. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
22. GEWERTZ, D. and F. ERRINGTON, 1996. Pepsi Co. and Piety in a Papuan New Guinea Modernity. American Ethnologist 23 (3): 476-493.
23. GRIFFIN, C. 2001. Imagining New Narratives of Youth Research, the "New Europe" and Global Youth Culture. Childhood?, (2): 147-166.
24. GODDARD, M. 2005. The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Canberra:Pandanus Books.
25. GULBRANDSEN, O. 2003. The Discourse of Ritual Murder: Popular Reaction to Political Leaders in Botswana in Beyond Rationalism. In B. Kapferer, (ed.) Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery, pp 215-233. New York: Berghan Books. (Pubitemid 36144380)
26. HERDT, G. and S. LEAVIT, (eds.) 1998. Adolescence in Pacific Islands Societies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
27. JOLLY, M. 1992 Custom and the Way of the Land: Past and Present in Vanuatu and Fiji. IN M. Jolly and N. Thomas, (eds.) The Politics of Tradition in the South Pacific. Oceania Special Issue 62 (4):324-54.
28. 1996. Woman Ikat Raet Long Human Raet o Nol Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu. Feminist Review 52:169-88.
29. 2000. Further Reflections on Violence in Melanesia. In Dinnen, S. and A. Ley, (eds.) Reflections on Violence in Melanesia, pp. 305-24. Hawkins Press and Asia Pacific Press.
30. JOURDAN, C. 1995. 'Masta Liu'. In V. A.Talai and H. Wulff (eds.). Youth Cultures: A Cross-cultural Perspective. pp 201-222. London: Routledge.
31. 2004. Stepping Stones to National Consciousness: The Solomon Islands Case. In V. Lockwood (ed.) Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands. pp. 102-115. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
32. KAPFERER, B. 2003 (ed.). Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery. New York: Berghan Books
33. KULICK, D. 1993. Heroes from Hell: Representations of Rascals in a Papua New Guinean Village. Anthropology Today 9(3):9-14.
34. LATTAS, A. 1993. Sorcery and Colonialism: Illness, Death, Dreams as Political Languages in West New Britain. Man 28(1): 51-77
35. LINDSTROM,L. 1984. Doctor, Lawyer, Wise Man, Priest: Big-Men and Knowledge in Melanesia. Man 19 (2): 291-309
36. 1997. Custom Remade. In The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, pp. 407-415. D. Denoon, M. Meleisea, S. Firth, JLinnekin, and K. Nero, (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
37. LARMOUR, P. 1998. Midgal in Melanesia. In Peter Dauvergne (ed), Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies. pp. 77-92. Canberra: Allen & Unwin in association with the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Australian National University.
38. MALINOWSKI, B. 1922 Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London:Routledge and Keegan Press
39. MCLEOD, A. and M. MORGAN, 2007 An Incomplete Arc: Analyzing the Potential for Violent Conflict in the Republic of Vanuatu Pacific Affairs. 80 (1): 67-86 (Pubitemid 47316307)
40. MEAD, M. 1928. Coming of Age in Samoa. New York: William Morrow and Company.
41. MITCHELL, J. 1998. Young People Speak: A report on the Vanuatu Young People's Project. Vanuatu Cultural Centre.
42. 2000. Violence as Continuity: Violence as Rupture - Narratives from an Urban Settlement in Vanuatu, in S. Dinnen and A. Ley (eds.). Reflections on Violence in Melanesia, pp. 189-208. Leichardt and Canberra: The Federation Press and Asia Pacific Press
43. 2004. 'Killing Time' in a Postcolonial Time in a Postcolonial Town: Young People and Settlements in Port Vila, Vanuatu. In V. Lockwood (ed.) Globalization and Culture Change in the Pacific Islands, pp.358-376 New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
44. PATTERSON, M. 1974-75. Sorcery and Witchcraft in Melanesia. Oceania 454:132-160, 212-34.
45. PIOT, C. 1999. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
46. PREMDAS, R. 1985. Rebellion, Decentralization, and the State in the Southwest Pacific: The Case of Vanuatu. Kabar Sebarang 19: 1-23.
47. 1987. Melanesian Socialism: Vanuatu's Quest for Self-Definition. The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 25: 141-160.
48. RAWLINGS, G. 1999. Villages, Islands and Tax Havens: The global/local implications of a financial entrepot in Vanuatu. In Canberra Anthropology. Vol. 22, No. 2: 37-50.
49. RIO, K. 2003. The Sorcerer as an absented Third Person. In B. Kapferer (ed.) Beyond Rationalism: Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery, pp.129-154. New York: Berghan Books.
50. 2010. Handling sorcery in a state system of law: Magic, violence and kastom in Vanuatu, Oceania 80 (2): 183-197.
51. RODMAN, W. L. 1993. Sorcery and the Silencing of Chiefs: "Words on the Wind" In Post-independence Ambae. Journal of Anthropological Research 49: 215-235.
52. 1993a. The Law of the State and the State of the Law in Vanuatu. In V. Lockwood, T. Harding and B. Wallace, (eds) Contemporary Pacific Societies Studies in Development and Change, pp.55-66. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
53. SHARP, L. 2003. Laboring for the Colony and Nation: The Historicized Political Consciousness of Youth in Madagascar. Critique of Anthropology 23 (1): 50-74.
54. STEPHENS, M. 1987. Sorcerer and Witch in Melanesia. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
55. SYKES, K. 1999. After the 'Raskof Feast: Youths' Alienation in New Ireland, Papua, New Guinea. Critique of Anthropology 19 (2): 157-174.
56. TAUSSIG, M. 1993. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses. London: Routledge.
57. 1997. The Magic of the State. New York: Routledge.
58. THOMAS,N. 1994. Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and Government. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
59. TONKINSON, R. 1981. Sorcery and Social Change in Southeast Ambrym, Vanuatu. In M. Zelenietz and S. Lindenbaum. (eds.) Special Issue: Sorcery and Social Change in Melanesia. Social Analysis 8:77-88.
60. 1985. Forever Ambryese? Identity in a Relocated Community, Vanuatu. In Chapman, Murray and Philip Morrison, (eds.) Mobility and Identity in the Island. Pacific Viewpoint, 26 (1): 139-159. U.S. Department of State. 2004 (accessed on March 14, 2010)
61. WEISBROT, D. 1989. Custom, Pluralism and Realism in Vanuatu: Legal Development and the Role of Customary Law. Pacific Studies 13 (l):65-97.
62. VANAUTU YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT. 2008 Report on Research. Unpublished.
63. WHITE, G. and L. LINDSTROM, 1997. Chiefs Today: Traditional pacific leadership and the postcolonial state. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
64. WHITE, G. 2007. Indigenous Governance in Melanesia. Discussion Paper No. 2007/5. State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project. Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
65. WIDMER, A. 2008. The Effects of Elusive Knowledge: Census, Health Laws and Inconsistently Modern Subjects in Early Colonial Vanuatu. Journal of'Legal Anthropology 1 (1):92-116
66. WITTERSHEIM, E. 1998. Melanesian Elites and Modern Politics in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Discussion Paper No. 98/3. State Society and Governance in Melanesia Project. Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
67. ZELENIETZ, M. 1981. Sorcery and Social Change: An introduction. In Sorcery and Social Change in Melanesia. Special Issue. Social Analysis 8:3-14