Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Author "Martin, Keir James Cecil"

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  • Battlegrounds of dependence. Reconfiguring labor, kinship and relational obligation 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil; Wig, Ståle; Yanagisako, Sylvia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Interdependence is a fundamental characteristic of human existence. The way in which certain dependencies are acknowledged as opposed to those that are hidden, or the ways in which some are validated while others are ...
  • Dams and Flows: Boundary Formation and Dislocation in the Financialised Firm 
    Leaver, Adam; Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Abstract Mainstream economic theories of the firm argue that the boundary between firm and market is determined by efficiency-enhancing logics which optimise coordination or bargaining outcomes. Drawing on social ...
  • Do you Want us to Feed you like a Baby? Ascriptions of Dependence in East New Britain 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    This paper explores some accusations of wrongdoing in Papua New Guinea in the early 2000s. These accusations illustrate an ambiguous encouragement and discouragement of different kinds of perceived dependence as Papua New ...
  • Dreams and reality in the tubuan and the corporation 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract  Beginning with a dream encounter with the tubuan , an ancestral spirit in Papua New Guinea, this article questions conventional anthropological framings that posit a sharp distinction between Western humanist ...
  • Introduction: Dependence in Oceania 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    It is nearly half a century from the wave of decolonisation and national independence that swept across the Pacific in the 1970s and early 1980s. Yet despite this, as across the rest of the world, issues of what can be ...
  • Labour, Property and Persons: Reflections from Papua New Guinea 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
  • Rituals and Ambiguities of Social Disorder 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
    This paper explores the namata ritual, common among Tolai people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. The namata is often presented as an event that contributes towards social order, both in the ethnographic ...
  • States of dependence: Introduction 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil; Yanagisako, Sylvia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Anxieties around the moral effects of states of ‘dependence’ remain central to political and social debate across the world. At a time when the association between wage‐labour and a particular valorised conception of adult ...
  • Stretching Bonds and Strengthening Ethics in Avoiding Giving 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
  • The Ambiguities of Rituals: Introduction 
    Remme, Jon Henrik Ziegler; Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)
    That rituals are ambiguous phenomena has been long established in anthropology. However, while this ambiguity is often assumed to be resolved in one way or another through the course of a ritual and taken as contributing ...
  • Wars of Dependence: Contested Histories Among Tolai People of Papua New Guinea 
    Martin, Keir James Cecil (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    In this article, I look at the ways in which a number of forms of providing for a livelihood have increased in importance in the region in this period and explore the ways in which they have created the possibility for new ...