After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society
After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society
dc.contributor.author | Silverman, Eric K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-24T21:31:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-24T21:31:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article challenges the ethical allegory of the widely hailed film Cannibal Tours, drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, most recently in 2010. First, I sketch the contemporary plight of a middle Sepik, Iatmul-speaking community that yearns for a “road” to modernity and tourism but increasingly sees itself as “going backwards.” Second, I argue that tourism allows middle Sepik inhabitants to express artistically subtle messages about contemporary gender, identity, and sociality in the Melanesian postcolony. Third, I demonstrate what happens when the tourists go home. And almost all of them have done so, especially after the sale of the tourist ship, the | |
dc.format.extent | 37 pages | |
dc.identifier.citation | Silverman, E. K. 2013. After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society. The Contemporary Pacific 25 (2): 221-257. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1043-898X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/33578 | |
dc.publisher | University of Hawai‘i Press | |
dc.publisher | Center for Pacific Islands Studies | |
dc.subject | tourism | |
dc.subject | development | |
dc.subject | Sepik River | |
dc.subject | Papua New Guinea | |
dc.subject | Cannibal Tours | |
dc.subject | art | |
dc.subject | cargo cult | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Oceania -- Periodicals | |
dc.title | After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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