PhD and Masters

Doctor of Philosophy

2008

Dr Nicholas Herriman

A din of whispers: community, state control and violence in Indonesia

2007

Dr Po Chin Lee

Explorations of Social Capital and Physical Activity Participation among Adults on Christmas Island


Dr Brendan Corrigan

Different Stories about the Same Place: the origin narratives of archaeology and tradition in the East Kimberley of Northern Australia and Aru Islands of Eastern Indonesia

Dr David Paul

Casting shadows and struggling for control: silence, resistance and negotiation in Australian Aboriginal health

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2005

Dr Siti Norkhalbi Haji Wahsalfelah

Traditional Woven Textiles: Tradition and Identity Construction in the 'New State' of Brunei Darussalam.

Dr Catherine Pattenden

Shifting Sands: Transience, Mobility and the Politics of Communities in a Remote Mining Town

Dr Sue Summers

The Interface of the Personal and the Political: adaptive strategies of former Yugoslavs in the post-Yugoslav war and as refugees in Perth, Western Australia

Dr Michael Azariadis

Struggling with Alevi Identity: An Anthropological Analysis of the Discourses that Structure the Unequal Relationship Between the Abdal and Tahtac Communities of Fethiye, Southwestern Turkey

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2004

Dr Robin Rodd

The Biocultural Ecology of Piaroa Shamanic Practice

Dr Gavan Cushnahan

The Paradox of Authenticity and Risk Management in Independent Travel:an Indonesian Case Study

Dr Suharsono

Javanese in the Eyes of its Speakers: Reflections from a Suburban Area of East Java, Indonesia

Dr Noriko Hagiwara

Professional Kyoiku Mama: Being a Good Mother via the practice of Oujken among Educated Women in Modern Tokyo

Dr Jan Anderson

Kin, Cows and Capital: Dairy Industry Deregulation and the Maintenance of Farming Tradition on the Atherton Tableland, Australia

Dr Linda Low

Seeking a New Self: The New Age Spiritual Quest in a Western Australian Community

Dr Sharyn Graham

Hunters, Wedding Mothers and Androgynous Priests: Conceptualizing Gender among Bugis in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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2003

Dr Amanda Wilson

Where Trannies Tread: Taking the Private Public in the Gendered Spaces of Perth

Dr Jane Mulcock

Searching for Our Indigenous Selves: Belonging and Spirituality in Anglo-Celtic Australia

Dr Raelene Wilding

Fairy-tales for Sale: An Anthropological Perspective on the Wedding Industry in Perth, Western Australia

2002

Dr Martin Gerard Forsey

Devolution and its Discontents: A Study of Organisational Change in a Western Australian High School

2001

Dr Gillian Hutcherson
Women standing up:
Gender, Power and change in a Australian Aboriginal Community of
Northeast Arnhem Land

Dr Graham Townley
Missionaries, mercenaries and misfits:
service relations in the adminstration of remote Aboriginal communities in the
Western desert region of Australia

Dr John Haba
"Resettlement and sociocultural change among the 'Isolated people' in central Sulawesi,
Indonesia: a study of three resettlement sites"

Dr Jasmine Day
The Mummy's Curse:
The origins, development and roles of popular visions of popular visions of Egyptian mummies and their
relationships with representations of mummies in musems in Britain and the United States of America
during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Volume 1 and 2)

Dr William Day
Aboriginal fringe dwellers in Darwin Australia:
Cultural Persistence or a culture or resistance?

2000

1999

Dr Nonja Peters
Trading Places:
Greek, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese enterprise in Western Australia

Dr Richard Riordan
Blokes & Legends:
A study of the value of performance amongst men in a Western Australian rural community

1998

Dr Jason Price
Being Middle Class in Indonesia:
An ethnographic study of the new middle class in contemporary Java

Dr Jacqueline Dodd
Cancer as Bad Luck or Warning Symbol?
Constructed meanings of Illness and Healing

Dr Bev McNamara
'Good Enough' Death:
An ethnography of Hospice and Palliative care

Dr Jawahir Thontowi
Law and custome in Makasar society:
The interaction of local custome and the
Indonesian Legal Service in dispute resolution

1997

Dr Margaret Behrndt
Voices from within the four walls:
A biocultural analysis of postpartum depression among
first time mothers in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia

1996

Dr John Duff
Nutrition Research:
Setting the Agenda for the 'New' Public Health

1995

Dr David Moore
Drug use and Western Selfhood:
An Ethnography of Urban Paths in Perth, Western Australia

Dr Julie Manville
"A Church is lots of women and a preacher",
Women in an Australian Anglican Parish

Dr Sandy Toussaint
Cultural Realities and Partial Truths:
Gendered Ethnographies in Northern Aboriginal Australia

1994

Dr Christopher Waite
Trinidad masquerades:
Performance, play and community in a post-colonial carnival

Dr Lynne Hunt
An Institutional Ethnography of Women's Health Praxis

Dr Ann-Claire Larsen
The Child Health Service:
A means of regulating Western Australian Families of Pre-School, Children

Dr Cheryl Lange
Being Green:
The Making of Collective Identity in the Greens (WA)

Dr Loretta Baldassar
Visits to the Shrine:
A study of migration as transnational interaction
between the San Fiorese in Western Australia and Northern Italy

1993

Dr Peter Gilet
The Wonder Tale:
A modification of Vladimir Propp's Paradigm

(joint with Department of English)

1992

Dr Philip Moore
Subcontracting in Perth:
An Urban Ethnography

Dr Guy Wright
"Island Season:
Social Relations and Fishing Practice at the
Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia"

Dr Christina Birdsall
All in one Family:
Family and Social Identity among Urban Aborigines in Western Australia

1991

Dr Paul Bowen
Ntamkuphila:
Tradition and Change in a Swazi Agricultural Community

1990

Dr Carol Warren
Adat and Dinas:
Village and State in Contemporary Bali

1989

Dr Edward McDonald
Strategic action in situations of unfamiliarity:
The case of juvenile defendants in the children's court system in Western Australia

Dr Barbara Dobson
Like a thief in the night:
Filipino modes of courtship and marriage

Dr Patricia Baines
The Heart of Home:
The intergenerational transmission of a Nyungar identity

Dr Vicki Paton
mBah Cipta's Gift:
Healing in a Central Javanese Village

1987

Dr Lois Tilbrook
Shadows in the archives:
an interpretation of European colonization
and Aboriginal response in the Swan River area

Dr Richard Chadwick
Topics in Minangkabau vernacular literature

1986

Dr Justine Boow
Mbatik Manah:
Symbols and status in central Javanese Batik making

Dr Joan Knowles
The settlement of Vietnamese Refugees in Perth,
Western Australia 1978-1984

1985

Dr John Stanton
Conflict change and stability at Mt. Margaret:
An Aboriginal community in transition

Dr Patricia Black
The fashioning of the earth anew:
The Universal Brotherhood - an ethnography of a religious utopian community

1982

Dr Kingsley Palmer
Aboriginal Religion and the ordering of Social Relations

1981

Dr Judyth Watson
Work-related injury:
An Anthropological analysis of a workers' compensation scheme

Dr Stephen Muecke
Australian Aboriginal narrative in English:
A study in discourse analysis

Dr Rosanna McEverdy
Language Child and School:
A comparative study of sociolects used by
Italian and Australian primary school children in Perth

Dr William Christensen
The Wangkayi Way:
Tradition and change in a reserve setting

Dr Melanie vonBamberger
Aboriginal socialization:
A West Australian example

1979

Dr Ian Malcolm
Classroom communication of the Aboriginal Child

Dr Helen Henderson
Socialization of Nyungar children in
metropolitan families of Perth Western Australia

1976

Dr William Greble
The Pioneering Era in Kulin

1975

Dr Michael Howard
Nyoongha politics:
Aboriginal politics in the South-west of Western Australia

1974

Dr Ralph Locke
Manipulators of time symbolic orders in spirit mediumship

Dr Bruce Shaw
Social relations and commitments in a planned new town in W.A.

1973

Dr M. Stockbridge
Female teenage delinquents in Western Australia

1971

Dr John Smart
The Conjugal Pair:
A pivotal focus for the description of Karagawan Isneg social organization

Dr Robert McKeich
Problems of Part-Aboriginal Education

Dr D. Turner
The Wanunamagalijugba and their neighbours

Dr M. Brandl
Pukumani

1970

Dr C. Makin
A Socio-economic Anthropological survey of people of Aboriginal
descent in the metropolitan region of Perth, Western Australia

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MASTERS

(All Master of Arts unless otherwise stated)

2007

Claire Malavaux

Cultivating Indifference. An anthropological analysis of Australia's Policy of Mandatory Detention, its rhetoric, practices, and bureaucratic enactment

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2006

Paulina Slivkoff

The formation and contestation of Molokan identities and communities: The Australian experience

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2005

Manonita Ghosh

Postnatal Depression v Suffering: An Anthropological Approach to South Asian Migrant Women’s Postnatal Feelings

Sally Robertson

Music as medium for human engagement: Indigenous/non-Indigenous musical interactions at two Australian festival sites

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2004

Marianne Yrke

"What you do is who you are": Gender Identity in the Resources Industry

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2003

Annaliza Jackson

Constructing Masculinities under Abusive Conditions

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2001

Stephanie Hammill

Taking Root: Identity, History and Place in a South Coast Farming Community in Western Australia

2000

Joanna Keng Ling Tan
Intercultural Communication Competence:
A motivational approach to the investigation of communication patterns of ethnic Chinese
and Australian students

1997

Georgette Leah Burns (M.Sc)
From Coconuts to Cocktails:
A sociocultural study of tourism on a Fijian Island

1995

Silvia Stefanoni
Family and settlement:
Italo-Australians of Pickering Brook

1992

Maureen Roberts
A Western Australian Buddhist Community:
Charisma in continuity and change

G.Benson-Lindholm
To cry unclean:
A study of Leprosy in the north of Western Australia

1990

William Arthur
Between two worlds:
Aboriginal culture autonomy and economic
assimilation in remote Western Australia in the 1980s

Jan Turner
We womens really knows a lot:
Aboriginal gender relations in contemporary
organisational negotiations Roebourne, Western Australia

1989

Kim Doohan
One family, different country:
The development and persistence of an
Aboriginal Community at Finke Northern Territory

Sally Hodson
Nyungars and work:
Aboriginal Labour in the Great Southern Region, Western Australia 1936-1972

1987

David Moore
'The Lads in action':
Social process and expressive activity among skinheads in Perth

Sandy Toussaint
Nyungars in the City:
A study of policy power and identity

Malissa Helms
'Keeping it together':
The social processes of community among young urban
nomads living in shared houses in Perth, Western Australia

Richard Cummings
Greeks and their children in Perth:
A humanistic perspective

1986

Patricia Reynolds
Anthropology and the social construction of time

Peter Reynolds
An ethnography of the humanist society of Western Australia

1985

Valerie Fitch
The Swan River Indenture 1819-1931

Leone Dunn
Badimaya: A Western Australian language

John Sandefur
A language coming of age:
Kriol of North Australia

Cynthia Hunter
The Folkies:
An ethnography of Folkies and their folk songs

1982

Thelma Bessell-Brown
The economics of divorce:
Child support and the Family Law Act

Richard Kingsford
Yamadyi Law:
The continuing significance of traditional Aboriginal culture in
the Murchison Region Western Australia

Alan Petersen

Drink Drivers and the Judicial process

1981

Jane Tarrant (M.Sc)
Art and society in communist China

E J. Davenport
Caste and Class among the Jat Sikhs of the Punjab

S J. Jones
Patterns of friendship and neighbourhood perception in a planned town:
The case of Kwinana, Western Australia

1980

Christina Birdsall
The Aftermath of Rape

Rosalie Thackrah
Poverty and Welfare:
A survey of attitudes concerning welfare,
welfare recipients and the causes of poverty

Zaidah Mustapha
The Muslim Practice of seclusion (Pingit) in Loloan, Bali

1979

R A. Pearce
Analysis of some Western Australian small tool assemblages

1978

Malcolm Griffiths
Organisational issues in the development of a community work service

John Sherwood
Street youth in a rual town

Dennis Gray
'Identity' amongst the Carnarvon Reserve Mob

1977

Andrew Duckworth
Living with shift work:
A study of the life styles and attitudes of
rotating shift workers in Western Australia

1976

Sandra Vouyoucalos
Meals and Messages:
Food as language and social currency in Athens and Crete

1973

Lois Tilbrook
Socio-cultural adaptations of a sample of part-Aboriginal girls:
Perth working girls' hostel residents

S J. Meagher
A reconstruction of the traditional life of the Aborigines
of the South-west of Western Australia

Michael Robinson
Change and adjustment among the Bardi of
Sunday Island, North-Western Australia

Desmond Storer
The social power structure and decision making process
in a West Australian country town

1972

R. Sodesiri
The changing system of belief of the elephant hunters of Surin, Thailand

1971

S. Vallibhotama
Ban Muang Khao:
The Village and the Wat

1968

P K. Roy
Part-Aborigines of Moora:
A study of socio-economic integration and
assimilation in an Australian rural community

1967

P H. Lucich, (M.Sc)
Development of Amaha kinship terminologies in three Australian Aboriginal
Tribes of theKimberley division, Western Australia

A. Brand
Education and social mobility in Thailand

1966

Robert Tonkinson
Social structure and acculturation of Aborigines in the Western Desert

1964

P. Dalton
Broome: A multiracial community:
A study of social and cultural relationships

1962

C F. Makin
Social differentiation and the concept of
community in a Western Australian township

1961

K. Wilson (M.Sc)
The allocation of sex roles in social and economic affairs in a
'new style' Australian Aboriginal community:
Pindan, Western Australia

John Wilson
Authority and leadership in a 'new style' Australian Aboriginal Community:
Pindan, Western Australia

1960

Mary Hodgkin
Formal and informal social alignments among
Malayan students in Perth Western Australia

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