Re: another triumph for tribalism's `ways of knowing'

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 20:53:04 MST

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    How *does* one say "noble savage" nowadays? "<x> indigene", but I can't seem
    to solve for x.... And "indigene" looks too much like "indignant", and "jeans"
    are sweatshop tools of the oppressor. I'm sooooo confuuuuused.

    Damien Broderick wrote:
    > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6038056%255E27
    > 03,00.html
    >
    > Ethnic killings hit PNG
    > By Mary-Louise O'Callaghan, South Pacific correspondent
    > 25feb03
    >
    > SEVEN people are dead and more than 20 houses have been destroyed in Port
    > Moresby during weekend clashes between rival Papua New Guinea ethnic groups.
    >
    > The deaths are the latest in a series of violent incidents to have beset the
    > capital since the country's economic downturn sharpened ethnic tensions.
    >
    > PNG has more than 700 different language groups, with many still practising
    > tribal warfare and the tradition of "payback" or revenge killings.
    >
    > At least three of the men killed at the weekend were chopped to death in one
    > of the town's more notorious outskirt squatter settlements, Nine Mile,
    > populated by people from the Central Province Goilala language group.
    >
    > The incident occurred when relatives of a Southern Highlands businessman,
    > who was killed after a dispute with people from Goilala the previous
    > evening, allegedly rampaged through the settlement, slashing the three men
    > and pulling down housing and shelters.
    >
    > Port Moresby police chief Geoffrey Vaki said he wanted "instigators and
    > escalators" of ethnic clashes to be dealt with harshly.
    >
    > "I will not tolerate ethnic trouble here," he said.
    >
    > "Not a weekend goes by without some sort of tribal clashes. It makes the
    > call for repatriation of people to their home (provinces) more credible," he
    > said in a reference to calls by PNG politicians for the repatriation of all
    > settlement dwellers from the capital.
    >
    > [etc]
    >
    >



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