they made to how things were, gradually becomes an objectifiable quantity,
something to which a given material index may be attributed, and from which
this accumulated effectiveness may be abducted. This is what the Malanggan
is; a kind of body which accumulates, like a charged battery, the potential
energy of the deceased dispersed in the life world.
(Gell 1998: 22 4 –226)Forced to be a message but no longer able to mean one, I can only do this once.
My work consists of two parts: the one presented here, plus all that I have not
written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one.
(Wittgenstein 1969: 35)150 Part II