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Anthropological Forum - Previous Issues

Contents of Previous Issues

Vol 1: 1963-66 Vol 2: 1967-70

Vol 3: 1971-74 Vol 4: 1975-79

Vol 5: 1980-88 Vol 6: 1989-93

Vol 7: 1994-97 Vol 8: 1998

Vol 9: 1999      Vol 10: 2000

Vol 11: 2001    Vol 12: 2002

Vol 13: 2003    Vol 14: 2004

Vol 15: 2005    Vol 16: 2006

Vol 17: 2007    Vol 18: 2008

Vol 19: 2009   

VOLUME 1


No.1 (1963)

Valentine, C.A. Social status, political power, and native responses to European influences in Oceania.

Schwartz, T. Systems of areal integration: some considerations based on the Admiralty Islands of Northern Melanesia.

Jaspan, M.A. Productivity inhibition among workers in a nationalized industry: a factory case study in Java.

Kaldor, S. The study of bilingualism as a approach to language problems of Asian students at the University of Western Australia.

Hoyt, E.E. Culture change and integration: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.



No.2 (1964): "The uses and misuses of Anthropology"

Elkin, A.P. The threefold uses of anthropology

Berndt, C.H. The uses and misuses of anthropology

Geddes, W.R. Anthropology and native policy

Lawrence, P. Social anthropology and the training of administration officers at the Australian School of Pacific Administration

Fink, R.A. Some dangers in applying anthropology

Jaspan, M.A. Anthropology and commitment to political causes

Tugby, D.J. Toward a code of ethics for applied anthropology

Hodgkin, M.C. Cross-cultural education in an anthropological perspective

Douglas, W.H. The Aborigines: is a balanced approach possible?

Berndt, R.M. The Gove dispute: the question of Australian Aboriginal land and the preservation of sacred sites.



Nos.3-4 (1965 – 66): "Politics in New Guinea: Part One"

Kaberry, P.M. Political organization among the Northern Abelam

Lawrence, P. The Garia of the Madang District

Burridge, K.L.O. Tangu political relations

Chowning, A. and W.H. Goodenough Lakalai political organization

General:

Chowning, A. Lakalai kinship


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VOLUME 2

No.1 (1967): "Politics in New Guinea: Part Two"

Reay, M. Structural co-variants of land shortage among patrilineal peoples

Meggitt, M.J. The pattern of leadership among the Mae-Enga of New Guinea

Brown, P. The Chimbu political system

Watson, J.B. Tairora: the politics of despotism in a small society

General: Tugby, D.J. Cultural anthropological research in the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. Some contrasts in the organization of science.



No.2 (1968): "Politics in New Guinea: Part Three"

Oliver, D. Southern Bougainville

Langness, L.L. Bena Bena political organization

Lowman-Vayda, C. Maring big men



No.3 (1969): "Politics in New Guinea: Part Four"

Glasse, R. and S. Lindenbaum, South Fore politics

Berndt, R.M. Political structure in the eastern central Highlands of New Guinea

General: Mountford, C.P. and R. Tonkinson, Carved and engraved human figures from North Western Australia



No.4 (1970)

Epstein, A.L. Autonomy and identity: aspects of political development on the Gazelle Peninsula

Maddock, K. Imagery and social structure at two Dalabon rock art sites

Brandl, M. Adaptation or disintegration? Changes in the Kulama initiation and increase ritual of Melville and Bathurst Islands, Northern Territory of Australia


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VOLUME 3

No.1 (1971)

Barnes, J.A. Agnatic taxonomies and stochastic variation

Hamilton, A. The equivalence of siblings

Silberbauer, G.B. Ecology of the Ernabella Aboriginal community

Locke, R.G. Social action: a brief analysis and a constructed type

Miller, W.R. Dialect differentiation in the Western Desert language

Douglas, W.H. Dialect differentiation in the Western Desert—a comment

Miller, W.R. A reply to Douglas's comment



No.2 (1972)

Turner, D.H. Nimda rites of access: a comparative view

Coombs, H.C. Decisions by Aborigines

Berndt, R.M. The changing face of the Aboriginal arts

Williams, J. Governor Weld and the Lador-Burges affair: a consideration

Murray, F.J. Increasing population pressure and changing marriage codes in Central Luzon

McGrath, T.B. Conservation of indigenous cultural heritage in Guam and Micronesia: a partial survey

Hallam, S.J. Reflections on Burrill Lake: archaeologist as ecologist



Nos.3-4 (1973-74)

Stanner, W.E.H. Aborigines in the affluent society: a widening gap

Kolig, E. Progress and preservation: an Aboriginal perspective

Hage, P. A graph theoretic approach to the analysis of alliance structure and local grouping in Highland New Guinea

Reay, M. Generating political conflict: some consequences of economic exploitation of the New Guinea Highlands

O'Collins, M. Social welfare priorities in developing countries with special reference to Papua New Guinea

Norton, R. The management of racial conflict in Fiji

Ghosh, A.K. Culture change in stone age India and its bearing on environmental adaptation


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VOLUME 4

No.1 (1975-76)

Turner, D.H. The myth of Lévi-Strauss: an introduction to structural analysis

Johnston, M.A. Te Mana a Maui—a structural analysis of a Maori myth cycle

Sackett, L. Exogamy or endogamy: kinship and marriage at Wiluna, Western Australia

Duncan, L.S.W. Aboriginal protest: one movement or many?

Inglis, C. Particularism in the economic organization of the Chinese in Papua New Guinea

Reay, M. When a group of men takes a husband: review article

Roy, P.K. Socio-economic impact of industrialization on the Indian family: a case study in Ranchi, India

Obituary: Professor Max Gluckman



No.2 (1977): "Anthropological research in British colonies: some personal accounts"

Loizos, P. Personal evidence: comments on an acrimonious argument

Firth, R. Whose frame of reference? One anthropologist's experience

Richards, A.I. The Colonial Office and the organization of social research

Leach, E. In formative travail with Leviathan

Morris, H.S. Constraints on research in colonial and post-colonial Sarawak

Lloyd, P. The taming of a young Turk: fieldwork in Western Nigeria in the early 1950s

Lewis, I.M. Confessions of a 'government' anthropologist

Chilver, S. The secretaryship of the Colonial Social Science Research Council: a reminiscence

Obituary: Phyllis M. Kaberry



Nos.3-4 (1978-79)

Berndt, R.M. Looking back into the present: a changing panorama in eastern Arnhem Land

Howard, M.C. Migration and inequality: the socio-cultural significance of Australian Aboriginal internment in southwestern 'native' settlements

Bain, M.S. No Pitjantjatjara transformation

Douglas, W.H. Comment on Margaret Baine's 'No Pitjantjatjara transformation'
Feinberg, R. Supernatural sanctions and the social order on a Polynesian outlier: Anuta Island, S.I.

Ritter, P.L. Kosraen circulation, out-marriage, and migration

Koepping, K.-P. Japanese religious movements: the semiology of revolutionary ideologies

Obituaries:

A.P. Elkin

Margaret Mead

T.G.H. Strehlow

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VOLUME 5

No.1 (1980-82):"The anthropology of language"

Sansom, B.L. Going into language: an introduction

Rigsby, P. and P. Sutton Speech communities in Aboriginal Australia

Cromwell, L. Bar Kar Mir. To talk with no curves: important speaking among mainland Torres Strait Islanders

Liberman, K. The organization of talk in Aboriginal community decision-making

Malcolm, I.G. Speech use in Aboriginal communities: a preliminary survey

Dench, A. Kin terms and pronouns of the Panyjima language of northwest Western Australia

General: Sackett, L. Working for the Law: aspects of economics in a Western Desert community



No.2 (1983-84):"Essays in applied anthropology"

Berndt, R.M. Practical anthropology in Aboriginal Australia: some personal comments

Bell, D. Going it alone: practising applied anthropology

Tonkinson, R. Working for the Judge: role and responsibility

Wilson, J. Toward social impact assessment in Western Australia, as part of the environmental impact assessment process

O'Connor, R. A case of might-have-been: some reflections on the new 'Two Kilometre Law' in the Northern Territory

Dagmar, H. Planning for Aboriginal social change: the role of cultural identity

Vachon, D.A. Essays on the passion, imagination and striving: Aboriginal responses to the anthropological enterprise

Locke, R.A. Foucault in Blackall: directions in clinical anthropology

Cromwell, L. Consulting and no client constituency

Berndt, R.M. Establishing training in applied anthropology



No.3 (1985):"Collection of essays on Aboriginal land rights for the guidance of the Government of Western Australia Aboriginal Land Inquiry 1983-1984"

Berndt, R.M. A little history and a point of view: introductory remarks

Maddock, K. How to do legal definitions of traditional rights

Palmer, K. Simple justice and compensation: establishing criteria for Aboriginal land grants

Christensen, W.J.K. Criteria for land claims

Stanton, J.E. Owners and occupiers: the eastern Goldfields experience

Grimoldby, P. Aboriginal re-housing programmes and claims of need

Berndt, C.H. Women's place

Bell, D. Aboriginal women and land: learning from the Northern Territory experience

Bolger, A. Aboriginal women and land: issues from the Kimberley

Tonkinson, R. Councils, corporations and the Aboriginal polity

Sutton, P. Opinion formation and the problem of group consent

Maddock, K. The definition and interaction of natural and artificial persons in Aboriginal land rights

Sutton, P. Suggestions for a bicameral system

Bowdler, S. Reconciling archaeological and Aboriginal interests in the protection of sites

Randolph, P. Sites and resources: a brief statement in favour of cultural resource management

Keen, I. Aboriginal tenure and use of the foreshore and seas: an anthropological evaluation of the Northern Territory legislation providing for the closure of seas adjacent to Aboriginal land

Crawford, I.M. Aborigines and the sea: resources and management

Smith, M. Bardi relationships with sea

Palmer, K. Ownership and use of the seas: the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land

Bell, D. The impact of resource development: after land rights, what forgiveness?

Sutton, P. Proposals for anthropological input to baseline and impact studies

Green, N. Consultation or confrontation? Aboriginal-mining company relations during exploration

Altman, J.C. The payment of mining royalties to Aborigines: compensation or revenue?

Sutton, P. Some questions about adjudication, customary law and land



No.4 (1988)

Anderson, C. All bosses are not created equal

Trigger, D. Equality and hierarchy in Aboriginal political life at Doomagee, north-west Queensland

Tonkinson, R. Egalitarianism and inequality in a Western Desert culture

Bern, J. Structures of inequality and the meaning of surplus: a conundrum in the anthropology of Australian Aborigines

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VOLUME 6

No.1 (1989)

Pinches, M. Sending people up: industrial structure and primordial sentiments in the making of Philippine elevator workers

Pertierra, R. Political consciousness versus cultural identity: community, society and the Philippine state

Metcalfe, A. The importance of freedom and dignity: a reply to John Iremonger

Rumsey, A. Language groups in Australian Aboriginal land claims

Edmunds, M. Opinion formation as political process: the public sector, Aborigines, and White attitudes in a Western Australian town

Merlan, F. The objectification of ‘culture': an aspect of current political process in Aboriginal affairs



No.2 (1990)

Tonkinson, R. Eulogy: Ronald Murray Berndt

Labalestier, J. The politics of representation: Australian Aboriginal women and feminism

Bell, D. A reply to ‘The politics of representation'

Jennaway, M. Paradigms, postmodern epistemologies and pradoxes: the place of feminism in anthropology

Warren, C. Rhetoric and resistance: popular political culture in Bali

Acciaioli, G. How to win followers and influence spirits: propitiation and participation in a multi-ethnic community of Central Sulawasi, Indonesia

Stange, P. Javanism as text or praxis

Wigman, B. The incitement to self-interest: Donzelot, his critics and the case of the ‘New Education' in South Australia



No.3 (1991/1992)

Austin-Broos, D.J. Religion and the politics of moral order in Jamaica

Stevenson, M. Total war: Europeans and indigenous peoples in the Columbian epoch

Woodward, M.R. Javanism, Islam and the plurality of ethnography

Stange, P. Multivalent ethnograpies: a response to Woodward

Aragon, L.V. Revised rituals in Central Sulawesi: the maintenance of traditional cosmological concepts in the face of allegiance to world religion

Mora, M. The Last Kiss and The Return after Murder: a case study of meaning and context in instrumental performance among the T'boli (Philippines)

Sansom, B. Song and political opposition in Sekhukhuneland, 1961-62

Rowland, R. Correspondence: A reply to Australian Aboriginal women and feminism



No.4 (1993): Special Issue: "Custom Today"
(Guest editors: Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom)

Lindstrom, L. & G.M. White Introduction: Custom Today

White, G.M. Three discourses of custom

Lindstrom, L. Cargo cult culture: toward a genealogy of Melanesian kastom

Schwartz, T. Kastom, custom, and culture: conspicuous culture and culture-constructs

Donner, W.W. Kastom and modernization on Sikaiana

Flinn, J. Who defines custom? Dance and gender in a Micronesian case

Dominy, M.D. ‘Lives were always, here': the inhabited landscape of the New Zealand high country

Keesing, R.M. Kastom re-examined

Tonkinson, R. Understanding tradition—ten years on

Trigger, D.S. Review article: Australian cultural studies: radical critique or vacuous posturing?

Hodge, B. & V. Mishra Response to Trigger

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VOLUME 7

No.1 (1994)

Glowczewski-Barker, B. Growing up and sexual identity: A cross-cultural approach

Warrell, L. Flirting with morality in the law: The booze, the bouncer and adolescence down under

Roberts, M. The cultured gentleman: The appropiation of manners by the middle class in British Ceylon

No.2 (1995): "Papers in honour of Basil Sansom"
(Guest editors: Philip Moore and Noel Dyck)

Moore, P & N. Dyck On ethnographic knowledge: Basil Sansom and the anthropological imagination

Merlan, F. Vectoring anthropology: A critical appreciation of Basil Sansom's work

Cohen, A. P. Ownership, responsibility, and the rhetoric of nationalism: A Scottish case

Moore, D. Raves and the Bohemian search for self and community: A contribution to the anthropology of public events

Dyck, N. Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics

Moore, P. Bloody, bloody, bloody: Language and labour in the Perth building industry

Paine, R. Signal values and politics: The puzzle of the Israel-Palestinian prisoner exchange, May 1985

Sansom, B. The wrong, the rough and the fancy: About morality and an Aboriginal aesthetic of the singular



No.3 (1996)

Kolig, E. Thrilling the clay of our bodies: Natural sites and the construction of sacredness in Australian Aboriginal and Austrian traditions, and in New Age Philosophy

Broch, H. B. Continuity in oral literature at Timpaus, Indonesia

Lewis, E. D. The contribution of anthropology to the Nusa Tenggara Timur pilot livestock development project

Bowdler, S. Freud and archaeology



No.4 (1997) Special Issue: "Change and conflict in Papua New Guinea land and resource rights"
(Guest editors: Paula Brown and Anton Ploeg)

Brown, P. & A. Ploeg Introduction

Lakau, A.A.L. Customary land tenure, customary landowners and the proposals for customary land reform in Papua New Guinea

Holzknecht, H. Problems of articulation and representation in resource development: The case of forestry in Papua New Guinea

Schieffelin, E.L. History and the fate of the forest on the Papuan plateau

Jorgensen, D. Who and what is a landowner? Mythology and marking the ground in a Papua New Guinea mining project

Guddemi, P. Continuities, contexts, complexities, and transformations: Local land concepts of a Sepik people affected by mining exploration

Zimmer-Tamakoshi, L. When land has a price: Ancestral gerrymandering and the resolution of land conflicts at Kurumbukare

Otto, T. Baitfish royalties and customary marine tenure in Manus, Papua New Guinea

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VOLUME 8

Nos.1 & 2 (1998)

Peace, A. Grand prix, global culture? Towards a social anthropology of popular culture at the periphery.

Palmer, C. Reflexivity in global popular culture: The case of the Tour de France

Waite, M. Self-determination in the dance: 'Cultural action', constraint and creativity in the Trinidad carnival.

Applied Forum:
Maddock, K. Anthropologists in native title claims.

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VOLUME 9

No.1 (1999)

Magowan, F. The joy of mourning: Resacralising 'the sacred' in the music of Yolngu Christianity and an Aboriginal theology.

Reuter, T.A. Communicating through the invisible: The paradox of association and the logic of ritualised interaction on the island of Bali.

Acciaioli, G., K. Robinson, and R. Tonkinson, Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology

Applied Forum:
Altman, J. Anthropology and indigenous public policy: One view from academia

Review Forum:
Otto, T. Cargo cults everywhere?
Lindstrom, L. Mambu Phone Home
Lattas, L. 'Neither cargo nor cult'



No.2 (1999)

Thomas, M. Dislocations of desire: The transnational movement of gifts within the Vietnamese diaspora.

Taylor, J. (Post-) Modernity, remaking tradition and the hybridisation of Thai Buddhism.

Applied Forum:
Sutton, P. Anthropological submission on the Reeves Review.

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VOLUME 10

No.1 (2000)

Kolig, E. Social causality, human agency and mythology: Some thoughts on history, consciousness and mythical sense among Australian Aborigines.

Applied Forum:
Keen, I. The debate over Yolngu clans.

Review Article:
Bulbeck, D. Post-anthropological archaeology.

No. 2 (2000)

Babadzan, A. Anthropology, nationalism and ‘the invention of tradition’

Inoue, A. Academism and the politics of culture in the Pacific

Soucy, A. The problem with key informants

Review Article:
Forsey, M. The anthropology of education: Cultural critique or ethnographic refusal?

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VOLUME 11

No.1 (2001)

Special Issue: Gender, power and ritual in cross-cultural perspective - Essays in honour of Michael Allen
(Editors: Mary Patterson and Robert Tonkinson)

Patterson, M. & R. Tonkinson. Editors' Introduction: Michael Allen

Hiatt, L. & J. Beckett. Michael Allen: An appreciation

Eipper, C. The Virgin, the visionary and the atheistic ethnographer: Anthropological inquiry in the light of Irish apparitions

Patterson, M. Breaking stones: Ritual, gender and modernity in North Ambrym, Vanuatu

Maddock, K. Women, religion and the meaning of the sacred in Phyllis Kaberry's Australian ethnography

Samuel, G. The effectiveness of goddesses, or, how ritual works

Kondos, V. An engagement with the forces of time: Worship at the goddess Guhyeswari temple



No. 2 (2001)

Sutton, P. Ronald and Catherine Berndt: An appreciation

The Inaugural Berndt Foundation Biennial Lecture

Sutton, P. The politics of suffering: Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s

Peace, A. Dingo discourse: Constructions of Nature and contradictions of capital in an Australian eco-tourist location

Crowley, T. Language, culture, history and the fieldworker: What I did on my Christmas holidays on Malakula (Vanuatu)

Griffin, C. Words of celebration on the occasion of Sir Raymond Firth’s 100th birthday (25 March 2001)


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VOLUME 12

No.1 (2002)

Feinberg, R. Elements of leadership in Oceania

Sillitoe, P. Always been farmer-foragers? Hunting and gathering in the Papua New Guinea Highlands



No. 2 (2002)

Special Issue: Kinship and change in Aboriginal Australia
(Guest Editors: Patrick McConvell, Laurent Dousset and Fiona Powell)

McConvell, P., L. Dousset & F. Powell. Guest Editors’ Introduction

Keen, I. Seven Aboriginal marriage systems and their correlates

McConvell, P. & B. Alpher. On the Omaha trail in Australia: Tracking skewing from east to west

Powell, F. Transformations in Guugu Yimithirr kinship terminology

Dousset, L. Accounting for context and substance: The Australian Western Desert kinship system

Bauman, T. ‘Test ’im blood’: Subsections and shame in Katherine

Avery, J. Jura conjugalia reconsidered: Kinship classification and ceremonial roles in adjacent Aboriginal populations in the Northern Territory of Australia

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VOLUME 13

No. 1 (2003)

Dwyer, P. D., R. Just & M. Minnegal. A sea of small names: Fishers and their boats in Victoria, Australia

Smith, B. R. Whither 'certainty'? Coexistence, change and land rights in northern Queensland

Nakar, E. Nosing around: Visual representation of the Other in Japanese society

Glaskin, K. Native title and the 'bundle of rights' model: Implications for the recognition of Aboriginal relations to country



No. 2 (2003)

Special Issue: Perspectives on the category 'supernatural'
(Guest Editor: Roger Ivar Lohmann)

Greenfield, S. M. & B. Saler. Morton Klass, 1928-2001: A dedication

Lohmann, R. I. Introduction: Naming the ineffable

Anderson, R. Defining the supernatural in Iceland

Aragon, L. V. Missions and omissions of the supernatural: Indigenous cosmologies and the legitimisation of 'religion' in Indonesia

Bosco, J. The supernatural in Hong Kong young people's ghost stories

Greenfield, S. M. Can supernaturals really heal? A view of science that shows how they might

Jindra, M. Natural/supernatural conceptions in Western cultural contexts

Lampe, F. P. Creating a second-storey woman: Introduced delineation between natural and supernatural in Melanesia

Lohmann, R. I. The supernatural is everywhere: Defining qualities of religion in Melanesia and beyond

Raverty, T. D. Starting with the supernatural: Implications for method, comparison, and communication in religious anthropology and inter-religious dialogue

Shorter, D. Binary thinking and the study of Yeome Indian lutu'uria/truth

White, E. D. The cultural politics of the supernatural in Theravada Buddhist Thailand

Sered, S. Afterword: Lexicons of the supernatural

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VOLUME 14

No. 1 (2004)

Burns, G. L. Anthropology and Tourism: Past Contributions and Future Theoretical Challenges

Davis, R. Aboriginal Managers as Blackfellas or Whitefellas? Aspects of Australian Cattle Ownership in the Kimberley

Schröder, W. Erhard Eylmann: A Pioneer of Exploration and Anthropology in Australia.


No. 2 (2004)

Jebens, H. 'Vali Did That Too': On Western and Indigenous Cargo Discourses in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

McIntosh, I. S. Personal Names and the Negotiation of Change: Reconsidering Arnhem Land's Adjustment Movement

Holton, G. E. L. Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki Theory and the Denial of the Indigenous Past

The Second Berndt Foundation Biennial Lecture
Tonkinson, R. Spiritual Prescription, Social Reality: Reflections on Religious Dynamism

Review Article
Weiner, J. F. A Map of the Human Tongue

No. 3 (2004)

Special Issue: Ethnographic Perspectives on Neo-Liberal Reform in Australia
(Guest Editors: Martin Forsey and Chris Lockhart)

Forsey, M. & C. Lockhart. Guest Editors' Introduction: Neo-liberalism in Australia

Tonts, M. Spatially Uneven Development: Government Policy and Rural Reform in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia

Lockhart, C. & A. Durey. Economic Efficiency versus Community Participation in the Reform of Rural and Remote Health Care

Anderson, J. Dairy Deregulation in Northern Queensland: The End of Traditional Farming?

Forsey, M. Equity versus Excellence: Responses to Neo-liberal Ideals in a Government High School

Lambert, R. Death of a Factory: Market Rationalism's Hidden Abode in Inner-City Melbourne

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VOLUME 15

No. 1 (2005)

Robinson, G. Anthropology, Explanation and Intervention: Risk and Resilience in a Parent- and Child-Focused Program

McWilliam, A. Houses of Resistance in East Timor: Structuring Sociality in the New Nation

Shapiro, W. Universal Systems of Kin Categorisation as Primitivist Projects

Toussaint, T., P. Sullivan & S. Yu. Water Ways in Aboriginal Australia: An Interconnected Analysis

No. 2 (2005)

Lee, J. C. H. The Narrative Imperative

Amster, M. H. Cross-Border Marriage in the Kelabit Highlands of Borneo

Saethre, E. Nutrition, Economics and Food Distribution in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Applied Forum
Sculthorpe, G. Recognising Difference: Contested Issues in Native Title and Cultural Heritage (The Third Berndt Foundation Biennial Lecture)

No. 3 (2005)

Special Issue: Critical Ethnography in the Pacific: Transformations in Pacific Moral Orders
(Guest Editors: Michèle D. Dominy and Laurence M. Carucci)

Carucci, L. M. & M. D. Dominy. Guest Editors' Introduction: Anthropology in the 'Savage Slot': Reflections on the Epistemology of Knowledge

Part I: Expanding Contexts of Pacific Anthropology

Van Meijl, T. The Critical Ethnographer as Trickster

Tengan, T. P. K. Unsettling Ethnography: Tales of an 'Ōiwi in the Anthropological Slot

Goldsmith, M. Culture in Safety and Danger

Part II: New Approaches/New Applications (Re-disciplined Ethnographic Practice)

West, P. Holding the Story Forever: The Aesthetics of Ethnographic Labour

Young Leslie, H. Tongan Doctors and a Critical Medical Ethnography

Harrington, C. 'Liberating' Critical Ethnography: Reflections from Fiji Garment Industry Research

Part III: New Approaches/New Applications

Feinberg R. Reflections on the Value of Ethnography

Petersen G. Important to Whom? On Ethnographic Usefulness, Competence and Relevance

Conclusion

Lederman, R. Challenging Audiences: Critical Ethnography in/for Oceania

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VOLUME 16

No. 1 (March 2006)

Burbank, V. From Bedtime to On Time: Why Many Aboriginal People Don't Especially Like Participating in Western Institutions

Coe, K., N. E. Aiken & C. T. Palmer. Once Upon a Time: Ancestors and the Evolutionary Significance of Stories

Wadley, R. E., A. Pashia & C. T. Palmer. Religious Scepticism and its Social Context: An Analysis of Iban Shamanism

Babidge, S. Bodily Connections and Practising Relatedness: Aboriginal Family and Funerals in Rural North Queensland

Applied Forum
Tonkinson, R. The Hindmarsh Island Affair: A Review Article


No. 2 (July 2006)

Beer, B. Stonhet and Yelotop: Body Images, Physical Markers and Definitions of Ethnic Boundaries in Papua New Guinea

Martinello, C. S. Tahitala's Revenge: Monumental Architecture and the Great Canoe, Lomipeau

Applied Forum
Morphy, H. The Practice of an Expert: Anthropology in Native Title

Edwards, C., L. Anderson, & S. McKeering. Anthropologists, Lawyers and Native Title Cases in Australia

No. 3 (November 2006)

Special Issue: East Indies/West Indies: Comparative Archipelagoes
(Guest Editors: Tom Boellstorff, Kathryn Robinson and David A. B. Murray)

Murray, D. A. B., T. Boellstorff & K. Robinson. Guest Editors' Introduction

Boellstorff, T. From West Indies to East Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges

Robinson, K. Idioms of Vernacular Humanism: The West and the East

Rodgers, S. Antic Histories: Narrating the Past in a Martinican Novel and a Sumatran Mock Family Memoir

Balliger, R. Empire in the Present: Exploring the Indies through the Cultural Geography of the Commonwealth

Aravamudan, S. East Indies and West Indies: Comparative Misapprehensions


VOLUME 17

No. 1 (March 2007)

Palmer, L. Negotiating the Ritual and Social Order through Spectacle: The (Re) Production of Macassan/Yolŋu Histories

Rydstrøm, H. Proximity and Distance: Vietnamese Memories of the War with the USA

Tonkinson, R. Aboriginal 'Difference' and 'Autonomy' Then and Now: Four Decades of Change in a Western Desert Society

Dousset, L. 'There Never Has Been Such a Thing as a Kin-Based Society': A Review Article

Applied ForumSansom, B.Yulara and Future Expert Reports in Native Title Cases

No. 2 (July 2007)

Edmunds, M. & M. Skidmore. Australian Anthropologists and Public Anthropology

Dousset, L. & K. Glaskin. Western Desert and Native Title: How Models Become Myths

Lattas, A. Cargo Cults and Politics of Alterity: A Review Article


Applied Forum:Responses to Sansom’s Article on the Yulara Native Title Case (previous issue)
Burke, P. The Problem When Flexibility Is the System
Glaskin, K. Manifesting the Latent in Native Title Litigation
Keen, I. Sansom's Misreading of ‘The Western Desert vs. the Rest’
Morton, J. Sansom, Sutton and Sackville: Three Expert Anthropologists?
Sackett, L. A Potential Pathway
Sutton, P. Norms, Statistics, and the Jango Case at Yulara

No. 3 (November 2007)

Special Issue: Interrogating Individuals: The Critique of Possessive Individualism in the Western Pacific
(Guest Editor: Karen Sykes)

Sykes, K. Guest Editor's Introduction

Hirsch, E. Looking Like a Culture

Were, G. Fashioning Belief: The Case of the Baha'i Faith in Northern New Ireland

Sykes, K. The Moral Grounds of Critique: Between Possessive Individuals, Entrepreneurs and Big Men in New Ireland

Wendel, J.P. Making and Unmaking Possessive Individuals: 'Xavier Borrowing' at a Catholic Mission Pacific Islands Secondary School

Martin, K. Your Own Buai You Must Buy: The Ideology of Possessive Individualism in Papua New Guinea

Robbins, J. Afterword: Possessive Individualism and Cultural Change in the Western Pacific

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VOLUME 18

No. 1 (March 2008)

Shapiro, L. Innatism in the Anthropology of A. L. Kroeber: A Critique of 'the Boasian Paradigm'

Rollason, W. Counterparts: Clothing, Value and the Sites of Otherness in Panapompom Ethnographic Encounters

Hyndman-Risik, N. 'Shrinking Worlds': Cronulla, Anti-Lebanese Racism and Return Visits in the Sydney Hadchiti Lebanese Community

Brittlebank, K. Asian Dreaming: An Exploration of Ronald and Catherine Berndt's Relationship with Asia

Wilding, R. Introducing Anthropology: A Review Article

No. 2 (July 2008)

Petit, P. Rethinking Internal Migrations in Lao PDR: The Resettlement Process under Micro-Analysis

Hoffstaedter, G. Representing Culture in Malaysian Cultural Theme Parks: Tensions and Contradictions

Lindstrom, L. Melanesian Kastom and Its Transformations

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No. 3 (November 2008)

Special Issue: You've Got to be Joking! Anthropological Perspectives on Humour and Laughter from Australia

(Guest Editors: Yasmine Musharbash and John Carty)

Carty, J & Musharbash, Y. You’ve Got to be Joking: Asserting the Analytical Value of Humour and Laughter in Contemporary Anthropology

Morton, J. Poofters Taking the Piss out of Anzacs: The (Un-)Australian Wit of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

Garde, M. The Pragmatics of Rude Jokes with Grandad: Joking Relationships in Aboriginal Australia

Redmond, A. Captain Cook Meets General Macarthur in the Northern Kimberley: Humour and Ritual in an Indigenous Australian Life-World

Musharbash, Y. Perilous Laughter: Examples from Yuendumu, Central Australia

McCullough, M. ‘Poor Black Bastard Can’t Shake-a-Leg’: Humour and Laughter in Urban Aboriginal North Queensland, Australia

Alexeyeff, K. Are You Being Served? Sex, Humour and Globalisation in the Cook Islands

Beckett, J. Laughing with, Laughing at, Among Torres Strait Islanders

Dwyer, P & Minnegal M. Fun for Them, Fun for Us and Fun for All: The ‘Far Side’ of Field Work in the Tropical Lowlands

VOLUME 19

No. 1 (March 2009)

Shapiro, W. A. L. Kroeber and the New Kinship Studies

Alès, C., L. Watts & W. Shapiro. Discussion of ‘A. L. Kroeber and the New Kinship Studies’

Chua, L. What’s in a (Big) Name? The Art and Agency of a Bornean Photographic Collection

Peace, A. Ponies Out of Place? Wild Animals, Wilderness and Environmental Governance

The Fourth Berndt Foundation Biennial Lecture: Morphy, H. Re-reading Ronald Berndt: Exploring the Depths of his Yolngu Ethnography

No. 2 (July 2009)

Herriman, N. A Din of Whispers: The In-Group Manifestation of Sorcery in Rural Banyuwangi

Condevaux, A. Māori Culture on Stage: Authenticity and Identity in Tourist Interactions

McAllister, P. National Celebration or Local Act of Reconciliation? Public Ritual Performance and Inter-Ethnic Relations in an Australian City

McDougall, D. Rethinking Christianity and Anthropology: A Review Article

Applied Forum: Coram, S. Intervention or Inversion: Australian Indigenous Justice and the Politics of Cultural Incompatibility

No. 3 (November 2009)

Special Issue: Spiritual Landscapes of Southeast Asia: Changing Geographies of Religion and Potency 

Allerton, C. Introduction: Spiritual Landscapes of Southeast Asia

Howell, B. Moving Mountains: Protestant Christianity and the Spiritual Landscape of Northern Luzon

Allerton, C. Static Crosses and Working Spirits: Anti-Syncretism and Agricultural Animism in Catholic West Flores

Telle, K. Spirited Places and Ritual Dynamics among Sasak Muslims on Lombok

Amster, M. Portable Potency: Christianity, Mobility and Spiritual Landscapes among the Kelabit

Bovensiepen, J. Spiritual Landscapes of Life and Death in the Central Highlands of East Timor

Bowen, J. Afterword: Landscapes of Power

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