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‘We Are Fire Clan’: Groups, Names and Identity in Papua New Guinea
Author(s) -
Dwyer Peter D.,
Minnegal Monica
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/ocea.5183
Subject(s) - clan , new guinea , identity (music) , geography , state (computer science) , economy , sociology , ethnology , genealogy , history , economics , anthropology , aesthetics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
This paper draws on two case studies concerning Kubo and Febi people of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, to reveal, first, ways in which people present themselves to the state as groups that qualify as legitimate beneficiaries of financial benefits expected to flow from extraction of natural gas on or near their land and, second, simultaneously present themselves to their immediate neighbours in ways intended to either lay claim to particular areas of land or offset possible challenges to their asserted rights to land. To achieve these ends, people strategically employ names to variously connote or denote particular assemblages of people.