Recently added articles from The Australian Journal of Anthropology:
Editorial
Sep 01, 2008; ... From 2009 TAJA will have both a new publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, and a new editor, Professor Martha Macintyre. Lhe AAS Executive concluded negotiations with Wiley-Blackwell in mid-2008 and I thank everyone involved for their hard work. Lhe background for this transition was a strong sense on my ...
The Australian Dominative Medical System: A Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society
Sep 01, 2008; ... This paper posits a working or tentative model of medical pluralism, a pattern in which multiple medical sub-systems co-exist, or what I term the Australian dominative medical system. I argue that whereas the Australian medical system with its various medical sub-systems was pluralistic, that is ...
Language out of Music: The Four Dimensions of Vocal Learning
Sep 01, 2008; ... A growing consensus drawing on research in a wide variety of disciplines has, over the last fifteen years or so, argued the need to revisit Darwin's conjecture of 1871 that language may be descended from an existing, musical medium of communication that developed from animal calls. This paper ...
Art, Culture and Ambiguity in Wilcannia, New South Wales
Sep 01, 2008; ... The claim of most town whites that Aboriginal people of Wilcannia make art but have no culture and the claim by Aboriginal people of the town that their art work and art designs demonstrate their culture and cultural traditions opens up the powerful and productive dimensions of art and culture ...
Outside Points of View in the Construction of Balinese Ethnicity and Religion
Sep 01, 2008; ... The 'outside points of view' of Muslims, Indian Hindus, tourists and other non-Balinese towards Balinese culture and religion are often invoked by Balinese religious leaders and urban intelligentsia. This has been described in the literature as 'defensiveness' related to the process of gaining ...
Gratuitousness: Notes Towards an Anthropology of Interiority
Sep 01, 2008; ... Interiority-an individual's inner consciousness, the continual conversation one has with oneself-remains an anthropological terra incognita. Literature has been less circumspect in this regard; fiction might be said to be 'truer' than social science in its efforts and intent to deal with how ...
Obituary: Michael William Nihill, 1953-2008
Sep 01, 2008; ... Michael Nihill, recently retired Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, died at his home in Sydney New South Wales in August of this year at the age of 54. His tragic death was a shock to all who knew him. Michael had tutored at the University of Adelaide, where he ...
Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935
Sep 01, 2008; ... Brenda Johnson Clay. Unstable Images: Colonial Discourse on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 1875-1935. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press. 2005. Pp. xiii + 324, illustre., bibliog., index. US$60.00 (Hc), ISBN 13 978-08248-2916-2. Robert J. Foster Anthropology, University of ...
The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts
Sep 01, 2008; ... Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri LaI (eds). The Indian Family in Transition: Reading Literary and Cultural Texts. London: Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007. Pp. 300, references, index. Rs 650 (Hc), ISBN 13 978-0-6619-3568-1. Goldie Osuri Critical and Cultural ...
Living With Bad Surroundings
Sep 01, 2008; ... Sverker Finnström. Living With Bad Surroundings. London and Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 286, illustre., references, index. US$79.95 (Hc), ISBN 13 978-08223-4134-1; US$22.95 (Pb.), ISBN 978-08223-4191-8. Justin L. C. Hancock Anthropology, University of ...
A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology
Sep 01, 2008; ... Geoffrey Gray A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 293, bibliog., index. AUD39.95 (Pb.), ISBN 13 978-05557-5551-5. Tim Row se History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National ...
The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan
Sep 01, 2008; ... David K. Jordan, Andrew D. Morris and Marc L. Moskowitz (eds). The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 278, illustre., index. US$58.00 (Hc), ISBN 13 978-08248-2737-3; US$28.00 (Pb.), ISBN 13 ...
Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews
Sep 01, 2008; ... R. H. Mathews (ed. by Martin Thomas). Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews. Canberra, ACT: Australian National University ?-Press and Aboriginal History Incorporated. 2007. Pp. vii + 256, maps, bibliog., index. AUD$25.00 (Pb.), ISBN 978-921-1324-0. Marina ...
Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines
Sep 01, 2008; ... Martin Nakata. Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press. 2007. Pp viii + 247, bibliog., notes, index. AUD $44.95 (Pb.), ISBN 13 978-08557 5548-5. Jeremy Beckett Anthropology, University of Sydney Readers of this book ...
Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse/'Hang Onto These Words': Johnny David's Delgamuukw Evidence/The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: Text and context
Sep 01, 2008; ... Andie Diane Palmer. Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp.260, illustre., appendices, references, index. US$60.00(Hc), ISBN 13 978-08020-3559-2; US$29.95 (Pb.), ISBN 13 978-08020-8435-4. Antonia Mills ...
The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands
Sep 01, 2008; ... Michael W. Scott. The Severed Snake: Matrilineages, Making Place, and a Melanesian Christianity in Southeast Solomon Islands. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2007. Pp. xxxiv + 379, maps, illustre., glossary, bibliog., index. US$45.00 (Pb.), ISBN 978-159460-153-8. Lament ...
Many Paths: Searching for Old Tibet in New China
Sep 01, 2008; ... Mark Stevenson. Many Paths: Searching for Old Tibet in New China. Melbourne, VIC: Lothian Books. 2005. Pp.xx + 267, maps, photos, bibliog., index. AUD29.95 (Pb.), ISBN 0-7344-0585-5. Ram Bahadur Chhetri Tribhuvan University Many Paths provides a first-hand account of life ...
Exchange and Sacrifice
Sep 01, 2008; ... Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern (eds). Exchange and Sacrifice. Durham, NC: Caroline Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xxxvi + 257, 1 photo, maps, index. US$ 42.00 (Pb.), ISBN 13: 978-1-59460-179-8. Jadran Mimica, Anthropology, University of Sydney This volume is a ...
Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa/Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka
Sep 01, 2008; ... Margaret Trawick. Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. 2007. Pp. 322, bibliog., index. US$29.95 (Pb.), ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24516-7; US$60.00 (Hc), ISBN-13: 978-0-52024515-0. and Mark P. Whitaker ....
Changing Pacific Masculinities: The 'Problem' of Men
May 01, 2008; ... This introduction places the papers of this Special Issue within the context of a brief overview of previous literature on the subject of masculinities in the Pacific, and especially of Melanesia. The particular focus on Melanesia is discussed in terms of the colloquia from which the papers ...