Henry, Rosita, Vávrová, Daniela, and Bragge, Laurie (2024) Archives as artefacts of knowledge: A Sepik philosopher and a Chinese trader in Papua New Guinea. In: Hayes, Anna, Henry, Rosita, and Wood, Michael, (eds.) The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future. Pacific Series . ANU Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 29-45.

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Abstract

Papua New Guinean colonial histories have typically tended to focus on the construction, and deconstruction, of a racialised political order concerning black-white relationships. This has meant that the Chinese have been rendered largely invisible in histories of the colonial and postcolonial state. In this chapter, we focus on the archival collection made by former officer of the Australian Administration in Papua New Guinea (PNG), Laurie Bragge, as a materialisation, or artefact, of the classificatory processes of race that state agents produced and reproduced in the course of colonial governance. We explore the different histories of the racialised postcolonial production of social value discoverable in the archive, focusing especially on the transcripts of interviews that Bragge did with Sepik elders during the 1960s and 70s, and his reflections on relations with Chinese living and working in the Sepik during the colonial era.

Item ID:	83234
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9781760466404
ISSN:	http://doi.org/10.22459/CPNG.2024.02
Keywords:	Papua New Guinea; Chinese; colonial history; race relations; Sepik River; patrol officers; kiaps; Australian Adminstration in PNG; politics of race.
Copyright Information:	Creative Commons Copyright ANU Press 2024. This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence
Funders:	The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
Projects and Grants:	Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop Grant
Date Deposited:	24 Jul 2024 04:44
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4401 Anthropology > 440107 Social and cultural anthropology @ 100%
SEO Codes:	13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1307 Understanding past societies > 130703 Understanding Australia’s past @ 60% 13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1307 Understanding past societies > 130799 Understanding past societies not elsewhere classified @ 20% 21 INDIGENOUS > 2112 Pacific Peoples heritage and culture > 211299 Pacific Peoples heritage and culture not elsewhere classified @ 20%
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