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The Return of the Past: On Drawing and Dialogic History

The Return of the Past: On Drawing and Dialogic History Drawing is a fundamentally dialogic activity and yet it remains largely absent from anthropology's own accounts of its field practices and its history. The early Russian anthropologist of Oceania, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, employed drawing as a strategy to initiate dialogue with new interlocutors, often in the absence of a common language. My research on the history of Lelepa Island, Vanuatu, has built a series of conversations around Miklouho-Maclay's 1879 sketches of the community, mimicking the strategy of drawing-as-dialogue to develop a collaborative or dialogic account of the past. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

The Return of the Past: On Drawing and Dialogic History

Ballard, Chris
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 14 (2): 13 – Apr 1, 2013
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The Return of the Past: On Drawing and Dialogic History

Abstract

Drawing is a fundamentally dialogic activity and yet it remains largely absent from anthropology's own accounts of its field practices and its history. The early Russian anthropologist of Oceania, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, employed drawing as a strategy to initiate dialogue with new interlocutors, often in the absence of a common language. My research on the history of Lelepa Island, Vanuatu, has built a series of conversations around Miklouho-Maclay's 1879 sketches of the...
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright The Australian National University
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1740-9314
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1444-2213
DOI
10.1080/14442213.2013.769119
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Abstract

Drawing is a fundamentally dialogic activity and yet it remains largely absent from anthropology's own accounts of its field practices and its history. The early Russian anthropologist of Oceania, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, employed drawing as a strategy to initiate dialogue with new interlocutors, often in the absence of a common language. My research on the history of Lelepa Island, Vanuatu, has built a series of conversations around Miklouho-Maclay's 1879 sketches of the community, mimicking the strategy of drawing-as-dialogue to develop a collaborative or dialogic account of the past.

Journal

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2013

Keywords: Dialogue; Drawing; Collaborative Ethnography; Encounter; History; Vanuatu

References

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  • Maclay, Kubary, Malinowski: Archetypes from the Dreamtime of Anthropology