Dark Trembling: Ethnographic Notes on Secrecy and Concealment in Highland Sulawesi

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dc.contributor.authorGeorge, Kenneth M.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-02T23:41:50Z
dc.date.available2016-03-02T23:41:50Z
dc.date.issued1993-10
dc.description.abstractThis ethnographic commentary explores the role of secrecy and concealment in a minority religious community in highland Sulawesi (Indonesia), and their place in the construction of ethnographic discourse. Discussion shows how a "culture of concealment" has emerged as a practical and realistic response to encroaching ideologies and social formations since the pre-colonial era. At the same time, the political use of secrecy takes its idioms from ritual practice, a site in which concealment may have "ontological" signficance. These dimensions of secrecy shaped the ethnographic dialogue between researcher and hosts, and highlight the need for a critical and reflexive anthropology to ground itself in the sociohistorical concerns of those whom ethnographers study. [secrecy, ritual, cultural politics, Sulawesi, reflexive ethnography]en_AU
dc.identifier.issn0003-5491en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/99893
dc.publisherGeorge Washington University, Institute for Ethnographic Researchen_AU
dc.rights© 1993 George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research.en_AU
dc.sourceAnthropological Quarterlyen_AU
dc.titleDark Trembling: Ethnographic Notes on Secrecy and Concealment in Highland Sulawesien_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage239en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage230en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGeorge, K. M., School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailken.george@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu5263052en_AU
local.description.notesAt the time of publication the author George was affiliated with Harvard University.en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume66en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.2307/3318066en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1005913en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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