The Australian Journal of Anthropology back issues from January 1996:
Introduction
Jan 01, 1996; ... Introduction1 The owl of Minerva which brings wisdom, said Hegel, flies out at dusk. It is a good sign that it is now circling round nations and nationalism. (E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism.) If separatist movements and 'ethnic' violence around the globe have ...
Nationalism and belonging in India, Pakistan, and South Central Asia: Some comparative observations
Jan 01, 1996; ... The criteria invoked in the definition of national identity are commonly derived from contexts other than those of the nation-state itself-most notably those of territoriality, language/culture, kinship/descent and religion. It therefore follows that in seeking to understand the kind of identity ...
Nationalist anxiety or the fear of losing your other
Jan 01, 1996; ... The nation of the nationalists is always conceived to be in crisis. There is always an other standing between them and 'it'. 'It' is often the impossible goal of a `totally gratifying nation'. Within a psychoanalytic framework, gratifying this nation is perceived as a fantasy, an object-cause of ...
Humanitarianism and Australian nationalism in colonial Papua: Hubert Murray and the project of caring for the self of the coloniser and colonised
Jan 01, 1996; ... This paper is about Australian nationalism in Papua at the beginning of the century. It analyses the role of science and humanitarianism in sustaining the colonial project and the white man's identity. Colonialism was formulated as philanthropy operating on a global scale, where the redemption ...
Postcoloniality, national identity, globalisation and the simulacra of the real
Jan 01, 1996; ... The focus of this paper is a famous boys' boarding school in the North Indian city of Debra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross section of post-colonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production of the 'modem' Indian citizen. The discussion ...
Irony and paradox in the Scottish borderlands: Hill sheep farms and their relations with the European Union and the United Kingdom
Jan 01, 1996; ... The aim of this article is to analyse the relations between hill sheep farms of the Scottish borderlands and the centralised, supra-local institutions of the United Kingdom and European Union. Heidegger's notion of the ontology of technology is used to describe a common reference world in which ...
The life of marble: The experience and meaning of work in the marble quarries of Carrara
Jan 01, 1996; ... Based on ethnographic research in the marble quarries of Carrara in north Italy, this article offers an experiential interpretation of work and labour. Intended as a critique of more structurally determined accounts of the labour process, the article examines the ways in which the experience and ...
Alternating ontologies: Exchange and ritual in Anganen history
Jan 01, 1996; ... In this article I examine the changing social and historical context of exchange and ritual amongst the Anganen of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, a neglected theme in Highland ethnography. I focus primarily on the history of the incorporation of one spirit cult ritual, ...
The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action
Jan 01, 1996; ... Elizabeth A. Povinelli. The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xii, 331pp., maps, tables, appendices, bibliog., index. US$19.95(Pb.). ISBN 0-226-67674-9. Elizabeth Povinelli has produced the first major study of ...
Native Title: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice
Jan 01, 1996; ... J. Finlayson and D.E. Smith (eds). Native Title: Emerging Issues for Research, Policy and Practice (Research Monograph no.10), Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 1995. xxii, 128pp., bibliog., A$20.00 (Pb.). ISBN 0-7315-2319-9. These ...