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CONTENTS
MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLES
A Very Brief History and
Prehistory of the Mentawai Islands
History and 'Mentawai':
Colonialism, Scholarship, and Identity in the Rereiket, West Indonesia.
Local
Places, Non-Local Imaginings: Culture, Politics and Imagination in the
"Mentawais"
Small-scale
Capitalism and Development in the Mentawais
Mentawai in Global Context (1):
Beaches, Travellers, and Vague Boundaries: Developing Glocal Perspectives on
the Mentawai Islands
Mentawai
in Global Context (2): Globalization, Regional Autonomy, and the Innervation
of Local Political Process in the Mentawai Islands
Spaces of Life; Spaces of
Death: Towards an Ethnography of the Austronesian House
Bibliography of Resources.
ETHNOGRAPHIC
PARTICULARS
1.
Introduction and Acknowledgments
2.
Theoretical Perspective
3. Village,
Cosmos, People
4.
House and Heirlooms
5.
The Suku ('descent' groups): profiles and interrelations
6.
The Suku: Identity, Origins and other matters
7.
Entities of Life; Entities of Death
8.
The Puliaijat
References
Cited in Ethnographic Particulars
Glossary
of Terms
MENTAWAI
JOURNAL
This section consists of a number of short,
textual, snapshots focusing upon incidents recorded by the author, Glenn
Reeves, during a period of extended residence on the island of Siberut during the early 1990s
and a brief period in the latter half of 2000, which also included a visit to
Sipora. They are intended to give the reader a feel for the texture of daily
life as well as providing insight into some of the areas and issues of
concern to the local people. This is also the stated intent of the articles
in "Ethnographic Particulars". However the textual strategy applied
in this "Journal" section represents
a different means to the same end. It is generally an attempt to draw closer
to the humanity of the local people than was perhaps achieved above. Note
that names have been changed to preserve anonymity as much as possible.
Barnabus
and the Evangelists
The
Death of Taptapmanai
Sigobai
and Akbar Get Out and About
The
Village Head
The
Foreign Tourist, the Harassed Guide, the Difficult Hosts, a Sikerei in Search
of Some Shavings, and a Church Service
Two
Parents and Several Children
From
Single to Couple
Borongan:
Wells, a Wharf, Chainsaws, a Mosque, Roads...and Money
Family
Planning: State Power and Qualified Local Resistance Madobag,
Matotonan, Ugai: Nov/Dec 2000
Padang-Sipora
Dec 2000
LOCAL
MOVEMENTS TOWARDS AUTONOMY
There are no 'people without history', to
paraphrase a notable commentary on the subject. This section contains example
articles demonstrating the increasing level of social and political activism
on the part of local people on Siberut, Sipora, and the Pagai Islands.
It gives a brief glimpse of the process of history-making currently underway,
an understanding of which is critical to a nuanced appreciation of the place
that local people are carving out for themselves in the modern world. The
articles are drawn, with permission, from early editions of the information
bulletin "Puailiggoubat".
Strengthening
the Community's Position
Autonomy Rakyat dan Otonomi Daerah/Regional Autonomy and Community
Autonomy
PUAILIGGOUBAT:
Media Informasi dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Mentawai
First
published in early 2001 under the auspices of the NGO, Citra Mandiri, the
general mission of this publication is as "cerminan diri kita sebagai
orang Mentawai"/"a reflection of ourselves as indigenous
Mentawaians". As of December 2001 a new expanded tabloid edition is
published monthly and available by subscription from the office of Yayasan
Citra Mandiri. A selection of articles is available below, giving an
indication of the sorts of topics and issues dealt with. An appreciation of
this type of material provides an understanding of important issues as
defined by local people.
EDITORIALS
2001 Archive
ARTICLES
2001
Archive
Menghindari Calon Tikus/Avoiding Dodgy Candidates
LINKS
The following links will deliver documents
providing good quality information from a variety of disciplinary outlooks
relating to the Mentawai
Islands. However it
should be noted that the views expressed by the authors and contributors to
the websites listed below and the documents accessible there are not
necessarily those of the author
of "The Anthropology of the Mentawai
Islands".
Defining
Wildness and Wilderness: Minangkabau Images and Actions on Siberut (West
Sumatra). By Gerard A. Persoon
SURF
TOURISM
The rapid expansion of surf tourism in the Mentawai Islands in the period 1995-2001 has
subjected them to world scrutiny to a degree probably unmatched in their
history. In this we are possibly seeing the beginning of a new chapter in the
relationship between the region's residents and the rest of the world.
However there is still some way to go before a
clearer picture of the key social, cultural, political and economic
dimensions of this engagement emerges. The following links provide some
initial insight into this phenomenon.
1.
Managing the Mentawais: An Examination of Sustainable Tourism Mananagement
and the Surfing Tourism Industry in the Mentawai Archipelago, Indonesia. By
Jess Ponting.
2.
Small-scale capitalism and development in the Mentawais: some thoughts and footnotes
to Jess Ponting's "Managing the Mentawais"
3.
"The Mentawai Bupati, MWB, Vaninda, and Foreign Investment" by D.Rimata
4.
"PT.MWB's Management of Surf Tourism". by D.Rimata
The following link provides a glimpse of
some of the ways in which the surfing industry is currently impacting upon
the indigenous population:
The
Mentawai Health Project (MHP)
Miscellaneous Resources
GREAT SEARCH ENGINE
Click on this link for the Royal Netherlands Insitute of Southeast Asian and
Carribean Studies search engine for an exhaustive list of
multidisciplinary scholarly publications on Indonesia. You can email yourself
a search output list of relevant articles, complete with bibliographical
details and article abstracts. here
The
Social Sciences Information Gateway: Ethnology, Ethnography, &
Anthropology
Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library,Australian
National University.
Native Web
The
Indonesia Portal
Author
and webmaster Glenn Reeves
can be contacted at
mentawai<at>mentawai.org
Copyright 2000-2006 Glenn Reeves
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