Recently added articles from The Australian Journal of Anthropology:
Global Warming as a By-product of the Capitalist Treadmill of Production and Consumption-The Need for an Alternative Global System
Jan 01, 2008; Baer, Hans ... Global warming constitutes one of the most important issues of the 21st century, along with the growing gap between the rich and the poor within and between nation-states, thanks to corporate globalisation, and on-going conflicts in many parts of the world. The latter in part can be related to ...
Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
Jan 01, 2008; Milton, Kay ... Introduction For an environmental anthropologist, 2007 has been an interesting year to visit Australia. For the first time anywhere, as far as I know, climate change is a prominent issue in a national election (still two weeks away at the time of writing). On 11 November, thousands ...
Anthropology and Global Warming: The Need for Environmental Engagement
Jan 01, 2008; Batterbury, Simon ... Over decades, a relatively small group of anthropologists has contributed to our understanding of how societies deal with environmental change and climate variability (e.g. Torry 1983; Strauss and Orlove 2003). Those contributions aside, the discipline is not strongly positioned in public debate ...
Autoethnographic Challenges: Confronting Self, Field and Home
Jan 01, 2008; Voloder, Lejla ... Anthropologists working at 'home' or in realms of the familiar often share a considerable sense of connection with participants. In these contexts, the researcher's potential position as an 'insider' offers particular opportunities for utilising self as a key resource. Through my own fieldwork ...
Material Poetics of a Malay House
Jan 01, 2008; Lundberg, Anita ... Material objects call to us and structure our being. They are not passive, while we are active-rather, they embroil us in their lives as much as we engage them. Hence, sociality is not solely a human function but necessarily involves environments and artefacts. The notion of material poetics is, ...
Urban Space and the Mediation of Political Action in Nepal: Local Television, Ritual Processions and Political Violence as Technologies of Enchantment
Jan 01, 2008; Wilmore, Michael ... This paper examines how political identities in the town of Tansen in the central western district of Palpa, Nepal, are mediated by contrasting forms of cultural and material practice: religious and secular processions and programs made by a local, cable-television production organisation. These ...
Enchanted Landscapes: Sensuous Awareness as Mystical Practice among Sufis in North India
Jan 01, 2008; Saniotis, Arthur ... Sufi studies in India have become increasingly popular in the last fifteen years, which has provided insight into Sufi thought and practice. However, many of these studies tend to deal with political and social issues in relation to Sufi movements and shrine culture. My analysis presents an ...
Fear for the future
Jan 01, 2008; Milton, Kay ... How do people feel about global warming? We are told by scientists and activists that, if we are to mitigate its worst predicted consequences, we must act decisively and immediately. Emotions are the prime motivators of action; without them we do nothing. And yet they are rarely made explicit in ...
Love in the Time of Extinctions
Jan 01, 2008; Rose, Deborah Bird ... Welcome to the Anthropocene. According to Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Laureate who coined the term, the influence of humanity on Earth in recent centuries is so significant as to constitute a new geological era. Some scientists consider the Neolithic revolution as the beginning of the Anthropocene, ...
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
Jan 01, 2008; Pertierra, Raul ... Warwick Andersen. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp Ivii + 356, maps, bibliog., index. US$23.95 (Pb.), ISBN 8223-3483-2; US$84.95 (Hc.), ISBN 8223-3804-1. This is an important ...
Fire, Flood, Fish and the Uncertainty Paradox
Jan 01, 2008; Minnegal, Monica; Dwyer, Peter D ... When the planet was created, the areas of the greatest biodiversity also happened to be the areas where mankind wants to reap the best reward of resources. It is not actually that complicated when you think about it, because where there is biodiversity happens to be where the resources are and ...
Climate Change, Global Warming and Too Much Sorry Business
Jan 01, 2008; Toussaint, Sandy ... Locating sorry business The expression 'sorry business' is used by many indigenous Australians to refer to the death of a family member and the profoundly difficult and extenuating circumstances that follow. Beliefs, emotions and practices associated with death and grieving in the ...
What's Love Got to Do With It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Jan 01, 2008; Wiss, Rosemary ... Denise Brennan. What's Love Got to Do With It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. 280, index. US$79.95 (Hc.), ISBN-10 0-8223-3259-0; US$29.95(Pb.), ISBN 100-8223-3297-3. What's Love Got to Do With It? ...
StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless
Jan 01, 2008; Marcus, Anthony ... Rae Bridgman. StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006. Pp.219, illustre., index. US$24.95 (Pb.), ISBN 1-55111-533-6. StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless is Rae Bridgman's study of 'StreetCily' and 'Strachan House', a Canadian government ...
The Practice and the Symbolism of the 'Race Power': Rethinking the 1967 Referendum
Jan 01, 2008; Rowse, Tim ... The Practice and the Symbolism of the 'Race Power': Rethinking the 1967 Referendum Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus. The 1967 Referendum: Race, Power and the Australian Constitution. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2007. Pp.200, b/w illustre. AUD 34.95(Pb.), ISBN ...
Apocalypse on You! Millenarian Frenzy in Debates on Global Warming
Jan 01, 2008; Jennaway, Megan ... Having failed to gain more than cursory attention from politicians, the media and the general public for several decades, the issue of global warming has suddenly achieved notoriety. This abrupt change-the discursive equivalent of the meteorological 'tipping point' of which climate scientists ...
Anthropologie et psychanalyse: Regards croisés
Jan 01, 2008; Hamilton, Annette ... Patrice Bidou, Jacques Galinier and Bernard Juillerat (eds). Anthropologie et psychanalyse: Regards croisés. Éditions de l'école des hautes études en sciences sociales. Cahiers de l'Homme No. 37, 2005. Pp.228. euro24.00 (Pb.), ISBN 2-7132-2066-1. Juillerat's book Penser L'imaginaire: ...
Feminism, Nationalism and Exiled Tibetan Women
Jan 01, 2008; Chhetri, Ram Bahadur ... Alex Butler. Feminism, Nationalism and Exiled Tibetan Women. New Delhi: Kali for Women 2003. Pp.viii + 242, tables, figures, references, bibliog., indexes. Indian Rupees 300 (Hc), ISBN 1-86706-52-6. Feminism, Nationalism and Exiled Tibetan Women is a work of rigorous scholarship ....
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Jan 01, 2008; Maxwell, Ian ... Ian Condry. Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp.264, illustrs., notes, references. US$79.95 (Hc.), ISBN 0-8223-3876-9; US$22.95 (Pb.), ISBN 0-8223-3892-0. The central argument of Ian Condry's engaging ...
Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
Jan 01, 2008; Deveson, Philippa ... Jennifer Deger. Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2006. Pp.256, bibliog., index. US$22.50 (Pb.), ISBN-10 0816649227. I must declare a particularly close interest in the subject matter of this book, for I5 too, ...