Jeffrey Clark’s research while affiliated with James Cook University and other places

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Madness and Colonisation: the Embodiment of Power in Pangia
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September 1992

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Oceania; a journal devoted to the study of the native peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific

Jeffrey Clark

The article considers two examples of ‘madness’ which occurred during the colonial era in Pangia district, Southern Highlands Province, PNG. The first, immediately prior to pacification, concerned outbreaks of madness among young Wiru men which were similar to the ‘wildman’ behaviour described in the Highlands ethnography. The second style of madness was associated with the so-called ‘hysteria’ accompanying revival activity by Christian missions. The two styles are compared using a Foucauldian perspective, primarily for the ways in which colonial technologies of power were inscribed on the bodies of Pangia people. The article presents an anatomy of colonial power, and suggests an ethnohistory of the body is possible. It examines the ways in which this power was created through discourses and practices involving concepts of the ‘primitive’ and ‘heathen,’ resulting in a transformation of the Wiru subject.

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... . I could also have used an ethnographic example such as Jeffrey Clark's study of "madness" amongst the Wiru during a period of colonial control in the Pangia district of Papua New Guinea(Clark 1992); but that was analyzed as a straightforward case of resistance against the imposition of colonial rule. Showalter's account provides a somewhat more entangled story. ...

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Anthropological knots: Conditions of possibilities and interventions
Madness and Colonisation: the Embodiment of Power in Pangia
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  • September 1992

Oceania; a journal devoted to the study of the native peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific