Cannibals and Orchids: Cannibalism and the Sensory Imagination of Papua New Guinea

Vanni Accarigi, I

Cannibals and Orchids: Cannibalism and the Sensory Imagination of Papua New Guinea

Vanni Accarigi, I

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Publisher:: University of Technology, Sydney
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cultural Studies Review, 2012, 18 (1), pp. 174 - 195
Issue Date:: 2012-01

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dc.contributor.author	Vanni Accarigi, I https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2795-8465	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cultural Studies Review, 2012, 18 (1), pp. 174 - 195	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article examines Leona Miller's book Cannibal and Orchids (1941) as an example of how place, in this case Papua New Guinea (PNG), is imagined according to a particular sensorium. It follows the âsensory turn in anthropologyâ and the studies developed in the last two decades that take the senses as their object of enquiry. This body of theory is mobilised to analyse Millerâs biographical narrative recounting how PNG is imagined, represented and produced in terms of a disarray of the (Western) senses, coalescing in the trope of cannibalism. This article argues that the experience of PNG as the place of otherness is narrated both in terms of the authorâs sensory displacement and of the indigenous sensorium as abject.	en_US
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dc.title	Cannibals and Orchids: Cannibalism and the Sensory Imagination of Papua New Guinea	en_US
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Abstract:

This article examines Leona Miller's book Cannibal and Orchids (1941) as an example of how place, in this case Papua New Guinea (PNG), is imagined according to a particular sensorium. It follows the âsensory turn in anthropologyâ and the studies developed in the last two decades that take the senses as their object of enquiry. This body of theory is mobilised to analyse Millerâs biographical narrative recounting how PNG is imagined, represented and produced in terms of a disarray of the (Western) senses, coalescing in the trope of cannibalism. This article argues that the experience of PNG as the place of otherness is narrated both in terms of the authorâs sensory displacement and of the indigenous sensorium as abject.

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