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The return of the past: on drawing and dialogic history

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dc.contributor.authorBallard, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:25:41Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T12:13:57Z
dc.description.abstractDrawing is a fundamentally dialogic activity and yet it remains largely absent from anthropology's own accounts of its field practices and its history. The early Russian anthropologist of Oceania, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, employed drawing as a strategy to initiate dialogue with new interlocutors, often in the absence of a common language. My research on the history of Lelepa Island, Vanuatu, has built a series of conversations around Miklouho-Maclay's 1879 sketches of the community, mimicking the strategy of drawing-as-dialogue to develop a collaborative or dialogic account of the past.
dc.identifier.issn1444-2213
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/53592
dc.publisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceAsia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, The
dc.subjectKeywords: Collaborative Ethnography; Dialogue; Drawing; Encounter; History; Vanuatu
dc.titleThe return of the past: on drawing and dialogic history
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage148
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage136
local.contributor.affiliationBallard, Christopher, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidBallard, Christopher, u8502179
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor210199 - Archaeology not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.absseo950599 - Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9910377xPUB277
local.identifier.citationvolume14
local.identifier.doi10.1080/14442213.2013.769119
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84875318823
local.identifier.thomsonID000316012100003
local.type.statusPublished Version

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