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 ...