Mnemonic Inscriptions: Understanding Melanesian Tattoos in Visual Archives

助记铭文：理解视觉档案中的美拉尼西亚纹身

• 批准号: 2885417
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885417
• 关键词: Mnemonic; Inscriptions; Understanding; Melanesian; Tattoos

This project will study two photographic archives of female tattooing in Papua New Guinea made respectively by a colonial officer (Captain Francis R. Barton) between 1899 and 1908 and by a missionary (Father Xavier Vergés) between 1964-1986. Both visual archives are the only ones of their kind and occupy a central role in understanding a practice that was suppressed in the 1980s and is gradually being reawakened by practitioners today. The aim of this research is to activate, reinterpret and share with communities these two understudied archives by analysing the way they represent the past and to recover Indigenous agencies. By employing a comparative method, photo-elicitation and the activation of social memory, the analysis will include Indigenous contemporary voices as a way to contribute to current debates on colonial archives.

该项目将在1899年至1908年之间由殖民官（弗朗西斯·R·巴顿上尉）和1964 - 1986年之间的传教士（父亲XavierVergés）研究，研究巴布亚新几内亚的两个女性纹身的摄影档案。这两种视觉档案都是同类档案，并且在理解一种在1980年代被抑制的实践中占据核心作用，并逐渐被当今的实践者唤醒。这项研究的目的是通过分析它们代表过去并恢复土著机构的方式来激活，重新诠释并与社区分享这两个档案。通过采用比较方法，照片的吸引力和社交记忆的激活，该分析将包括土著当代声音，以此来促进有关殖民档案的当前辩论。