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CONTENTS
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
A Very Brief History and Prehistory of the Mentawai Islands
History and 'Mentawai': Colonialism, Scholarship, and Identity in the Rereiket, West Indonesia.
Local Places, Non-Local Imaginings: Culture, Politics and Imagination in the "Mentawais"
Small-scale Capitalism and Development in the Mentawais
Mentawai in Global Context (1): Beaches, Travellers, and Vague Boundaries: Developing Glocal Perspectives on the Mentawai Islands
Mentawai in Global Context (2): Globalization, Regional Autonomy, and the Innervation of Local Political Process in the Mentawai Islands
Spaces of Life; Spaces of Death: Towards an Ethnography of the Austronesian House
Bibliography of Resources.
ETHNOGRAPHIC PARTICULARS
1. Introduction and Acknowledgments
2. Theoretical Perspective
3. Village, Cosmos, People
4. House and Heirlooms
5. The Suku ('descent' groups): profiles and interrelations
6. The Suku: Identity, Origins and other matters
7. Entities of Life; Entities of Death
8. The Puliaijat
References Cited in Ethnographic Particulars
Glossary of Terms
MENTAWAI JOURNAL
This section consists of a number of short, textual, snapshots focusing upon incidents recorded by the author, Glenn Reeves, during a period of extended residence on the island of Siberut during the early 1990s and a brief period in the latter half of 2000, which also included a visit to Sipora. They are intended to give the reader a feel for the texture of daily life as well as providing insight into some of the areas and issues of concern to the local people. This is also the stated intent of the articles in "Ethnographic Particulars". However the textual strategy applied in this "Journal" section represents a different means to the same end. It is generally an attempt to draw closer to the humanity of the local people than was perhaps achieved above. Note that names have been changed to preserve anonymity as much as possible.
Barnabus and the Evangelists
The Death of Taptapmanai
Sigobai and Akbar Get Out and About
The Village Head
The Foreign Tourist, the Harassed Guide, the Difficult Hosts, a Sikerei in Search of Some Shavings, and a Church Service
Two Parents and Several Children
From Single to Couple
Borongan: Wells, a Wharf, Chainsaws, a Mosque, Roads...and Money
Family Planning: State Power and Qualified Local Resistance Madobag, Matotonan, Ugai: Nov/Dec 2000
Padang-Sipora Dec 2000
LOCAL MOVEMENTS TOWARDS AUTONOMY
There are no 'people without history', to paraphrase a notable commentary on the subject. This section contains example articles demonstrating the increasing level of social and political activism on the part of local people on Siberut, Sipora, and the Pagai Islands. It gives a brief glimpse of the process of history-making currently underway, an understanding of which is critical to a nuanced appreciation of the place that local people are carving out for themselves in the modern world. The articles are drawn, with permission, from early editions of the information bulletin "Puailiggoubat".
Strengthening the Community's Position
Autonomy Rakyat dan Otonomi Daerah/Regional Autonomy and Community Autonomy
PUAILIGGOUBAT: Media Informasi dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Mentawai
First published in early 2001 under the auspices of the NGO, Citra Mandiri, the general mission of this publication is as "cerminan diri kita sebagai orang Mentawai"/"a reflection of ourselves as indigenous Mentawaians". As of December 2001 a new expanded tabloid edition is published monthly and available by subscription from the office of Yayasan Citra Mandiri. A selection of articles is available below, giving an indication of the sorts of topics and issues dealt with. An appreciation of this type of material provides an understanding of important issues as defined by local people.
EDITORIALS
2001 Archive
ARTICLES
2001 Archive
Menghindari Calon Tikus/Avoiding Dodgy Candidates
SURF TOURISM
The rapid expansion of surf tourism in the Mentawai Islands in the period 1995-2009 has subjected them to world scrutiny to a degree probably unmatched in their history. In this we are possibly seeing the beginning of a new chapter in the relationship between the region's residents and the rest of the world. However there is still some way to go before a clearer picture of the key social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of this engagement emerges. The following links provide some initial insight into this phenomenon.
1. Managing the Mentawais: An Examination of Sustainable Tourism Mananagement and the Surfing Tourism Industry in the Mentawai Archipelago, Indonesia. By Jess Ponting.
2. Small-scale capitalism and development in the Mentawais: some thoughts and footnotes to Jess Ponting's "Managing the Mentawais"
3. "The Mentawai Bupati, MWB, Vaninda, and Foreign Investment" by D.Rimata
4. "PT.MWB's Management of Surf Tourism". by D.Rimata
The following link provides a glimpse of some of the ways in which the surfing industry is currently impacting upon the indigenous population:
The Mentawai Health Project (MHP)
Miscellaneous Resources
GREAT SEARCH ENGINE
Click on this link for the Royal Netherlands Insitute of Southeast Asian and Carribean Studies search engine for an exhaustive list of multidisciplinary scholarly publications on Indonesia. You can email yourself a search output list of relevant articles, complete with bibliographical details and article abstracts.
Defining Wildness and Wilderness: Minangkabau Images and Actions on Siberut (West Sumatra). By Gerard A. Persoon The Social Sciences Information Gateway: Ethnology, Ethnography, & Anthropology
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library,Australian National University.
Native Web
The Indonesia Portal
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