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SUMMARY:Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an
  enslaved Melanesian - Dr Anthony Pickles\, Department of Social Anthropol
 ogy\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Anthony Pickles
DESCRIPTION:Colonisation in the Pacific encompassed peoples who were separ
 ated by thousands of miles of ocean and an even greater gulf of incomprehe
 nsion. As an anthropologist I am committed to the micro-scale of human int
 eraction and lived experience\, which does not lend itself easily to descr
 ibing this grand scale of events\, so I experiment with using elements of 
 fiction to sew together different Pacific experiences into a coherent stor
 y. An unexpected side-effect has been to force this anthropologist to go f
 urther than I ever would in my normal writing: I felt compelled to write a
 s if I really know what an enslaved Melanesian on an Australian plantation
  in 1884 thought. I present some of that writing sandwiched by reflections
  on the process and its limitations.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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