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Take that word “ambivalence” you attribute to Paul Rabinow. Paul is right to point to the ambivalence in my writing. I’ve actually tried to turn it into a kind of lucid uncertainty, a method. I suppose 51 another way of thinking about that might be to speak of inhabiting tensions, or antinomies, given to us by our time, by the constrains of the historical moments in which we live. We can’t transcend, or step outside of, these contradictions, paradoxes, predicaments. We can, however, critically and self-consciously explore their possibilities and limits.

It’s going out to one extreme and back across to another extreme, thus making some headway. ” The goal is to see how far you can get with an approach, a metaphor, a theory, see what it opens for you, and then watch it fall apart, as everything at a certain point will fall apart, or turn into its opposite—as Blake, a great dialectician, would expect. So, I take notions like text or writing and apply them to fieldwork and anthropology, to see what light could be shed, what productive defamiliarizing would result.

Hau’ofa’s later essay (in Remembrance of Pacifics Past) on habitat and memory brings it out clearly, I think. To recognize a specifically indigenous dialectic of dwelling and traveling requires more than simply unmaking the exoticist/colonialist concept of the homebody native, always firmly in place. I’ve learned a lot from Islandsavvy students at Santa Cruz—Vince Diaz, Teresia 87 Teaiwa, Kehaulani Kauanui, April Henderson, Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, Heather Waldroup, and Pam Kido—about lived experiences of roots and routes.

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