OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1064788

Metadata
Title:		Article - Revelations of the World
		yupna_0061
		Documenting Yupna Diversity
Contributor (author):		James Slotta
Description:		Like many over the past century, people in the Yopno Valley of Papua New Guinea have experienced a burgeoning of connections with people across great geographical distances. Building on Benedict Anderson’s well-known discussion of the nation as a “community” imagined in part through the realist framing of newspaper reporting, novels, censuses, and so on, I argue that revelation is an interactional frame central to an emerging global imaginary in the Yopno Valley, one that lies at the heart of Yopno engagements with transnational projects ranging from Christian missionization to environmental conservation and development through Western-style education. In the course of sermons, community meetings, public announcements, and the like, people frequently reveal knowledge of transnational institutions to others, presenting themselves as the necessary mediators between an “out-of-touch” community and a knowledgeable, powerful, and yet obscure world of transnational actors. The world perceived through revelation is one in which persons are defined by their place in a global hierarchy organized by the trajectory of knowledge in circulation, with the Yopno, the last to know, at the bottom. This imaginary, in turn, is reshaping power relations in Yopno communities and influencing people’s understanding of and interest in various transnational projects.
		james
Format:		application/pdf
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1064788
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1064788%23
Publisher:		James Slotta
Subject:		Secondary document
		Yopno language
Subject (ISO639):		yut
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1064788
DateStamp:		2017-05-31
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Search Info
Citation:		James Slotta. n.d. James Slotta.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_PG iso639_yut
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Papua New Guinea
Area:		Pacific