Aesthetic Historism and the Aesthetics of Tidibe: Ritual, Performance, and Contested Perceptions of “Skin” in the Papuan Highlands

• Authors: Eric Hirsch

Title variants

EN

Aesthetic Historism and the Aesthetics of Tidibe: Ritual, Performance, and Contested Perceptions of “Skin” in the Papuan Highlands

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Historyzm estetyczny i estetyka Tidibe: rytuał, performance i kontrolowane postrzeganie „skóry” w papuaskich górach Artykuł skupia się na serii tańców wykonywanych w rytuale Fuyuge (Papua Nowa Gwinea), z których jeden prowokuje dyskusję na temat jego rodowej stosowności. Korzystam z tych przykładów, aby zbadać odrębność estetyki Fuyuge i rozumienia historii w porównaniu z estetyką zachodnią i zachodnim rozumieniem historycznym. Podczas gdy te drugie są geograficznie obszerne i relatywistyczne, te pierwsze wyobrażają sobie całą estetykę i formy historyczne jako wywodzące się ze świata Fuyuge.

EN

The article focuses on a series of dances performed in Fuyuge (Papua New Guinea) ritual, one of which provokes debate about its ancestral appropriateness. I use these examples to examine the distinctiveness of Fuyuge aesthetics and historical understanding as compared with Western aesthetics and historical understanding. Whereas the latter is geographically wide and relativistic the former imagines all aesthetics and historical forms as deriving from the Fuyuge world.

Keywords

PL

estetyka; historyzm; kosmologia; taniec; Fuyuge, Papua Nowa Gwinea; estetyka; historyzm; kosmologia; taniec; Fuyuge, Papua Nowa Gwinea

EN

aesthetics; historism; cosmology; dance; Fuyuge, Papua New Guinea

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-49

Dates

published

2021-03-30

Contributors

author

Eric Hirsch

• Brunel University London, UK

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1690-9871

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rkult21121-3