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The ‘dirty work’ of risk in Northern Territory renal services The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Stefanie Puszka
In remote Indigenous communities, people with end stage kidney disease have limited access to dialysis services and the vast majority of patients contend with urban displacement in order to access treatment. Through ethnographic encounters with Yolŋu renal patients and other actors in Northern Territory healthcare systems, this paper explores how the threats posed by end stage kidney disease are multiply
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Australian aid in Papua New Guinea: Men’s views on pay disparities, power imbalances and written products in the development sector The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 Gordon Peake, Ceridwen Spark
This article explores the frustrations of men – both ‘local’ and ‘international’ – who work in the development sector in Papua New Guinea. It explores the views of men not because they are the only ones to express such dissatisfaction, but because their perspectives have not been documented, other than in informal conversations as occur over drinks or messaging platforms. These multiple narratives
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Anthropology at the University of the South Pacific: From past dynamics to present perceptions The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Kim Andreas Kessler
The Pacific Island region is a key context in the history of anthropology. Yet, while much has been written about how anthropology of the Pacific Islands contributed to Anglo‐American anthropology, the discipline's institutional history in the Pacific Islands has received very little attention. This paper is the first to explore the history of anthropology at the University of the South Pacific (USP)
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The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro‐coal lobbyists The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Kari Dahlgren
Concern with climate change, and coal's contribution to it, has centred coal in an intensely moralised politics of accusation in Australia. This paper discusses the ordinary ethics through which pro‐coal lobbyists in Australia relate to this moralised landscape and offers an analysis of the everyday and ordinary production of complicity with climate change. It argues that complicity is not just something
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The flight of the self: Exploring more‐than‐human companionship in rural Pakistan The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Muhammad A. Kavesh
The construct of multispecies anthropology has helped explain some of the ways through which humans develop sensory and embodied connectedness with the more‐than‐human. Yet there is a need to fully comprehend how such connectedness leads to the discovery of the inner self. Through an ethnographic study carried out with rural South Punjabi pigeon flyers in Pakistan between 2008 and 2018, this paper
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Filmic encounters: Multispecies care and sacrifice on island Timor The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Lisa Palmer
This is a story about the ‘arts of noticing’ more‐than‐human noticing. In it I reflect on the ways in which my own practice of ethnographic filmmaking is itself an agent of multisensory participation. As artifice and artificial eye, there is something both liberating and sensuous about filmmaking practice. It heightens the performativity of participants and their embodied rituals and allows me to enter
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Rank atmospheres: The more‐than‐human scentspace and aesthetic of a pigdogging hunt The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Paul G. Keil
Pigdogging is a popular pastime in Australia, a form of recreational hunting whereby people collaborate with dogs to chase and catch wild pigs. This paper analyses the hunt as an interspecies event that unfolds through the sensual and sensory entanglements of human and nonhuman, with a particular focus on the perspectives of the hunters. The concept of ‘atmosphere’ will be employed to frame an ethnographic
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The silence of the donkeys: Sensorial entanglements between people and animals at Willowra and beyond The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Petronella Vaarzon‐Morel
An indelible memory of visitors to Willowra Aboriginal community in Central Australia is the sound of donkeys braying as they roam the village in search of sustenance and are chased by barking dogs. While Warlpiri people view donkeys as an integral part of their sonic landscape, outsiders typically perceive the animals as a noisy, land‐management ‘pest’ and want them removed. Recently, the arrival
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Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-11-15 Tanya J. King, David Boarder Giles, Mythily Meher, Hannah Gould
#MeToo deals in the everyday ambiguous and intersectional, providing a space for discussion of the grey areas of sexual propriety. Since 2017, when the term was mobilised spectacularly in the US entertainment industry, other industries have undertaken an examination of their own practices and norms. In this paper we consider the implications of this political moment for the discipline of anthropology
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Categorical oppression: Performance of identity in South India The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Jayaseelan Raj
What does ‘identity’ really mean for the migrant workforce beyond its function in production relations? How are forms of identity evoked within broader social relations in a migrant context? This article explores these questions by looking at how the Tamil Dalit tea workers in the South Indian state of Kerala experience the stigmatisation of their identity categories in the context of two significant
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Buddhist way of old age and women’s life course in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-11-15 Hoang Anh Thu Le
This paper explores the interweaving of Buddhist practice, old age and women's gendered roles in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Given Vietnamese gendered norms that emphasise women's lifelong attachment and responsiblity to their families, this paper shows that Buddhist practice is a way of life in old age for women. Old age is a time in life when one continues to hone relational personhood and negotiate
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Playing with ambiguity: The making and unmaking of local power in postcolonial Timor‐Leste The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Daniel S. Simião, Kelly Silva
This article discusses the ambivalent status of local authorities in postcolonial state building in Timor‐Leste. We deploy two sets of empirical data to analyse the role ambiguity plays in particular power dynamics: the East Timorese legislation on community authority, and ethnographic descriptions of a local form of conflict resolution at the village level. The ethnographic analysis points to the
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Negotiating Hip Hop persons: Authenticity, participation and Breaking in Perth, Western Australia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Lucas Marie
This article draws on ethnographic research conducted in 2015 with Hip Hop dancers in Perth, as well as my own personal engagement as a Breaking practitioner, to examine how membership within the local Perth Hip Hop dance scene is made and negotiated. The focus of this article is on the processual, embodied and locally particular aspects of personhood, alhough specifically my concern is with how Hip
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Human‐horse sensory engagement through horse archery The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Natasha Fijn
The Mongol horse stems from ancient stock, similar to the first horses ridden on the Central Asian grassland steppe. Mongol horses subsequently migrated with their human counterparts throughout Eurasia, as far to the east as Japan. During archery festivals in Japan, horses gallop along a narrow runway within a temple complex in the heavily populated city of Kyoto. In Mongolia, with the recent re‐emergence
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Stench and sensibilities: On living with waste, animals and microbes in India The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Assa Doron
Stench is often the most immediate mark of something dirty, decaying and diseased. In India, stench and the smell of acrid smoke commonly indicate the proximity of an open dump or landfill. Frequently a slum is located in the vicinity too, housing waste‐pickers who forage in these sprawling dumps for salvageable waste. These spaces are also host to vermin, birds, stray dogs, pigs, cows and, more recently
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A sensory approach for multispecies anthropology The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-11-22 Natasha Fijn, Muhammad A. Kavesh
This special issue suggests that the need to examine the entangled lives of species, selves and other beings through a multisensory perspective is crucial and timely. Developing on a sensory analysis, one that emerges through what Anna Tsing refers to as the ‘arts of noticing’ (2015), this introductory paper explores how both nonhuman and human lives are intertwined, and how their close examination
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The perils of ‘yo‐yo’ thinking: Positioning culture in Pentecostal healing The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Richard Eves
Like other Pentecostals, the Lelet of central New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, are urged to reject significant aspects of their cultural tradition in order to become born‐again Christians. Most Lelet Pentecostals say that all use of magic must be abandoned. I use the example of healing to show how commitments to break with the past are influenced by life’s exigencies, such as illness. Pragmatic responses
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Charismatic Catholic Renewal in Bougainville: Revisiting the power of Marian devotion as a cultural and socio‐political force The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Anna‐Karina Hermkens
This article explores the interplay between culture and Christianity by detailing the history, experience, and impact of the Charismatic Catholic Renewal in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In 1985, the PNG Catholic Bishops' Conference approved the charismatic movement as one of the authentic movements for spiritual renewal of the Catholic Church in PNG. However, the
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‘You have to call the right name' – Operation Joshua meets Cosmology and Catholicism at Lake Chambri in Papua New Guinea The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Christiane Falck
In the Sepik, names feature centrally in political and religious contexts. Esoteric knowledge about totemic names enables Nyaura men to achieve status and power and can set them in contact with spirits. A recently arrived Pentecostal/evangelical movement—Operation Joshua—claims to have found the true name of God, whom it presents as being radically different to the beings people's ancestors have known
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Beyond rupture: Christian culture in the Pacific The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Debra McDougall
In its many forms, Christianity tends to focus adherents’ attention upon earlier religious traditions, compelling them to renew their faith, repent and seek redemption. This special issue takes up questions about Christianity’s temporal ‘secondarity’. Contributors move beyond increasingly futile theoretical debates about rupture and continuity by considering how Christians in Papua New Guinea and Solomon
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Materiality and Global Spiritual Networks: Old and new sacred places and objects The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Cristina Rocha
In this article, I am interested in how belief and religious materiality—sacred objects, places, infrastructures and digital media—are entangled in globalisation processes. Drawing on a case study of the John of God spiritual movement, I analyse the ways in which places and objects that have recently acquired sacred status enter into older, more established global spiritual networks, and by doing so
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The cosmopolitics of flow and healing in north‐central Timor‐Leste The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Lisa Palmer
In north central Timor‐Leste, multi‐sensory ecological engagement is deeply entangled with conceptualisations of and approaches to people’s wellbeing. How people understand human health and wellbeing is closely related to how they understand nature or more particularly human/nature relations and distinctions across multiple timescales. Working through complex cosmopolitics and activated through cross‐temporal
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Education, gender, and generational change: The transformation of dowry in village Nepal The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Sascha Fuller
In a small Bahun village in Gorkha district, West Nepal, in only one generation, there has been a huge shift to educating young women and including them in modernity. Ideologies of ‘gender equality’ in education that are promoted in development programs and discourse, and in Maoist rhetoric, have been powerful drivers behind this. In this paper I highlight the gender and generational dynamics of the
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The integrative value of conflict and dispute: Implications for defining community in the native title context The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Tim Pilbrow
Claimants and industry professionals frequently view conflict that arises in the course of a native title claim as a detriment to timely claims resolution. I argue instead that disputation itself may constitute an integrative social process through which participants define, delimit and reproduce community. I show also how ethnographic analysis of disputation can provide useful insights into broader
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Wine, geology mapping and the value of place in McLaren Vale The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 William Skinner
In the wine‐producing region of McLaren Vale, South Australia, the development of a detailed geology map has worked to increase understandings about the physical diversity of vineyard land. I argue that the production and deployment of social/scientific knowledge through the map is instrumental in strategic imaginings of the viticultural space of McLaren Vale. Ethnographic examination of ‘District
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Mind the gap: Encountering contemporary art through play The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 David J. Scott
Knowing how to approach and experience contemporary art is a challenge to many people outside the art world. Emerging contemporary art, as the newest of this genre, is often the most challenging. This article recounts my own early struggles as a researcher in this field, and proposes a way of understanding the interaction between artist, artwork and perceiver based on my observations of how contemporary
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Distinguished lecture: Native title—Implications for Australian senses of place and belonging The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 David Trigger
Can native title, across remote, rural and urban settings, complement and overlap with current and future Australian senses of belonging? This is to explore a form of cultural coexistence that is potentially in tension with a sharp and mutually exclusive categorical distinction between those who embrace Indigenous identity and others. Can such cultural coexistence reinforce legal and economic achievements
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Pasifika diaspora connectivity and continuity with Pacific homelands: Material culture and spatial behaviour in Brisbane The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Ruth (Lute) Faleolo
This paper presents an interesting discussion and analysis of Pasifika (specifically Tongan and Samoan) migrants in Brisbane, and the diverse adaptive cultural practices they use to promote a sense of wellbeing and cultural continuity in diaspora contexts. Pacific Island migrant perspectives of wellbeing and worldviews are linked to their spatial behaviour and material cultural adaptations within places
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Converts, Christians and anthropologists: A critique of Mark Mosko’s partible penitent thesis The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 John Barker
First advanced in a major essay published in 2010, Mark Mosko's ‘partible penitent’ thesis asserts that Melanesian and Christian cultures are based upon analogous conceptions of dividual personhood. Consequently, conversion in the region has been characterised by continuity rather than rupture, as argued most prominently by Joel Robbins. This essay offers an assessment of Mosko's thesis in terms of
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“Making coin” and the networker: Masculine self‐making in the Australian professional managerial class The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Owen McNamara
In this article I unpack the labour of “networking” to understand the changes in sociality and worker identity that have occurred in the Australian professional managerial class workforce under post‐Fordism. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at the interface of the pubic service and private consultancy firms in Canberra, I break from dominant readings of intimacy in post‐Fordism which preference either
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Resettlement challenges and dilemmas: An in‐depth case study of Bhutanese refugee women in Australia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Jamuna Parajuli, Dell Horey, Maria‐Irini Avgoulas
In this paper, the perceptions of Bhutanese refugee women were explored in relation to their changing identity and their behavioural responses in the use of preventive health services following resettlement. Interviews with 30 Bhutanese refugee women in Melbourne revealed resettlement drivers, challenges and dilemmas. There was no option for women other than resettlement, women wanted to escape from
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Preparing for (life after) death: Advance care directives and cyclic temporalities The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-11-21 Tanya Zivkovic
This paper explores the disjuncture between medico‐legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start and stop, and the cyclic comings and goings of Buddhist and Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with Buddhist and Hindu communities in Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to the multiple temporalities that become implicated in end‐of‐life decision‐making about how and when a person may die
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From the Murray to the Mekong: Grant Evans' life and fieldwork The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-04-30 Peter Cox, Kathryn Sweet
This article presents glimpses of the life and fieldwork of Grant Evans, the foremost anthropologist and historian to work on Laos in recent decades. It explores his youth in rural Australia, his tumultuous student years, and the challenges he faced as a professional scholar negotiating the Lao PDR bureaucracy. It draws insights from some of his early writing for alternative publications in Australia
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Lao peasants on the move: Pathways of agrarian change in Laos The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-04-25 Robert Cole, Jonathan Rigg
Grant Evans’ body of work on Laos consistently sought to understand how peasant society responded to political, social and economic change. As the Lao peasantry became ever more integrated both nationally and within the wider Southeast Asian region, and relations of market exchange came to dominate rural life, Evans maintained the need to reflect on Laos’ peasant roots to understand resulting pathways
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Social mobility of ethnic minority students in Laos The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Manynooch Faming
Idealistically speaking, schools are engines for upward social mobility. Education for ethnic minorities in Laos was set up to achieve nationalist, political, economic and sociocultural goals of ‘equity’ and ‘equality’. It was hoped that education would shift ethnic minorities from a lifestyle based on superstitious beliefs to a modern one, so that they could participate and enjoy ‘equality’ through
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From Tai‐isation to Lao‐isation: Ethnic changes in the longue durée in Northern Laos The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2019-04-23 Olivier Évrard
This article uses ethnographic data collected since 1994 in Northern Laos to reassess the modalities of Tai cultural and political influence on the Khmu, a Mon‐Khmer‐speaking highland population, and to understand why, after so many years of ‘Tai‐isation’, distinct identities still exist. For Grant Evans, who conducted fieldwork in Tai‐Dam and Sing Moon (Ksing Mul) villages at the end of the 1980s
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Afterword: Dark Anthropology in Papua New Guinea? The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-12-26 Dan Jorgensen
Ranging from colonial modernism to postcolonial disappointment, the papers in this collection explore the possibilities of Dark Anthropology and an Anthropology of the Good in Papua New Guinea. With these two prospects in mind, I consider what these papers tell us about the situations of rural people on the peripheries of large resource projects and those in ‘Last Places’ bypassed by development and
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Making the Baruya great again: From glorified great men to modern suffering subjects? The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-12-19 Anne‐Sylvie Malbrancke
This paper explores avenues for prestige‐making now available to and championed by the Baruya, the archetypal ‘Great Man’ people of Papua New Guinea, who I recently studied following previous work by Maurice Godelier. Amid critiques by Robbins and Ortner of anthropologists’ drive to document and empathise with “suffering subjects”, I suggest that being ‘left behind’ and ‘forgotten’ is an important
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“With AIDS I am happier than I have ever been before” The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-12-13 Holly Wardlow
In her 2016 article Sherry Ortner discusses what she calls the rise of ‘dark anthropology’: that is, ethnographic work that analyses situations of domination, dispossession, and violence. She, like Joel Robbins (2013), posits as a counterpoint the emergence of ‘anthropologies of the good,’ which emphasise care and ethics. In this paper I put these two anthropological projects into generative tension
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Resource conflicts and the anthropology of the dark and the good in highlands Papua New Guinea The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-12-10 Jerry K. Jacka
In this article I consider why individuals sacrifice their lives for the collective. In the Porgera Valley of highlands Papua New Guinea, young men who are called ‘Rambos’ engage in sustained tribal conflicts due to increasing social inequalities in an area that is supposedly benefiting from socioeconomic development. The opening of the Porgera Gold Mine in 1990 ushered in an era of anticipated benefits
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The tribe next door: The New Guinea Highlands in a postwar Papuan mission newspaper The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-12-02 Ryan Schram
Western ideologies of imperialism conceptualise time as heterogeneous in that they assume that colonised lands are outside of historical time. In this respect, the discursive construction of an empty frontier has been crucial to colonial dispossession. Yet colonial discourses become dominant through their circulation, and so the savage spaces they imagine take on a life of their own when they are revoiced
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Good anthropology in dark times: Critical appraisal and ethnographic application The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-11-30 Bruce Knauft
‘Dark Anthropology’ and its complementary ‘Anthropology of the Good’ have become influential and debated notions in anthropology in recent years. I here parse distinctive features of these emphases, address their relation to theory and to ethnography, and consider the stakes involved in concretely applying their conceptual designations. I discuss the general shift in anthropology from grand theory
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Following instructions and attempting to persuade: Performing an oral assignment in a seminar in Matvung The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-11-13 Lesley Fast
This article is about instructing and persuading talk in social interaction. Two interactions are examined which revolved around an oral assignment delivered in a seminar session in Matvung, Papua New Guinea. I show how the interaction is achieved collaboratively by the seminar cohort, and how the cohort members assume event‐specific roles in doing so. At the same time they are drawing upon knowledge
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Gender and inequality in a postcolonial context of large‐scale capitalist projects in the Markham Valley, Papua New Guinea The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-11-11 Bettina Beer
This article historicises gender relations among Wampar speakers in New Guinea (PNG). It analyses three interconnected female biographies to show how historical background interacts with current large‐scale capitalist projects to exacerbate social inequalities. One biography exemplifies linkages between Christianisation, education and political representation; the second focuses on inheritance, access
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The whisperings of ghosts: Loss, longing, and the return in Stolen Generations stories The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-10-09 Fiona Murphy
This article examines the telling of ghost stories of Indigenous Australians who were removed from their families during Australia's assimilation era. Known as the Stolen Generations, this group of people were subjected to institutionalisation, adoption, and forced removals from their families, communities and Aboriginal country. In many of my ethnographic encounters with Stolen Generations, I was
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Is it agency? An integrative interpretation of female adolescents’ sexual behaviour in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-09-14 Victoria Burbank, Kate Senior, Susan McMullen
In this paper we attempt to understand at least some of the complex and interacting forces – cultural, biological, developmental and historical – that influence adolescents’ sexual behaviour in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities. We use the concept of ‘agency’ only as a foil for our interpretation. Drawing upon ethnographic material, we focus on: ‘walkin’ around at night’, avoidance of
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Grappling with flying as a driver to climate change: Strategies for critical scholars seeking to contribute to a socio‐ecological revolution The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-08-15 Hans A. Baer
Airplane flights are one of the fastest, perhaps even the fastest, growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, even though there is much discussion of mitigating emissions to stave off a global climate change disaster. While business people, politicians, celebrities, and highly affluent people appear to be the most frequent flyers, the demands of an increasingly corporatised university sector have
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The action and inaction of care: Care and the personal preserve The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-07-26 Nigel Rapport
While ‘later life sees care emerge in ways that are new’ (Dawson and Goodwin‐Hawkins), this article argues that there is a general form to ethical care that pertains to all individual citizens in a liberal or democratic society. The form is one of balance: between engagement and inclusion on the one hand, and a preservation of autonomy and personal sovereignty on the other; between action and inaction
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“Old age is cruel”: The right to die as an ethics for living The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Ari Gandsman
In debates over medically assisted dying right to die activists are often accused of embracing an unbridled neoliberal individualistic ethics that devalue life and reject notions of community and care. Through an ethnographic study of activists in North America and Australia, this article aims to complicate this point of view by showing how they are deeply invested in what it means to act morally in
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‘Going with the flow’ of dementia: A reply to Nigel Rapport on the social ethics of care The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-06-21 Andrew Dawson, Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins
In this editors’ reply to Nigel Rapport's Afterword to the articles collected in the special issue ‘Moralities of care in later life’, we wonder: does the social ethics of care come with unacknowledged limits? We join with Rapport's call to maintain the individual's ‘personal preserve’ but observe—critically—that his “so far as possible, for as long as possible” makes for an uncomfortable caveat. To
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Changing moralities: Rethinking elderly care in Spain The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-06-17 Sílvia Bofill‐Poch
Demographic and social changes in Europe and OECD countries have increased the number of dependents in recent decades, challenging the organisation of health systems and raising calls for re‐definition of long‐term care services. In Spain the crisis of care has challenged a care regime based strongly on the family. Recent social policies have attempted to address this challenge. This article analyses
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Care and the afterlives of industrial moralities in post‐industrial northern England The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-06-07 Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins, Andrew Dawson
Building on recent anthropological work on post‐Fordist affect, this article explores comparatively the ‘afterlives’ of the social organisation of production. In particular, based on comparative ethnography of milling and mining on Northern England, it explores the very different forms of work organisation and their relationships with similarly contrasting moralities of care amongst and for older people
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Moving out: End‐of‐life decisions at a geriatric affordable housing facility in Brooklyn, NY The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-06-05 Brian J. O'Hare
This article will focus on perceptions about the health of tenants at an independent‐living residence for indigent elderly and disabled people. At this site tenants often resisted aid provided, which was a marked contrast to their caregiver's moral and legal imperative to help. This “caregiver's dilemma” will be explored within the shifting perspectives of older adults with low social and economic
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An independent and mutually supportive retirement as a moral ideal in contemporary Japan The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-06-05 Shiori Shakuto
In contemporary Japanese society the ability to care for oneself and other senior citizens has become a defining feature of good retirement. The capitalist Japanese state has historically mobilised moral virtues to foster a sense of productive citizenship among senior citizens and their family members. After the country failed to recover from the long recessionary era, policies regarding the welfare
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“I choose to go without everything really”: Moral imperatives, economic choice and ageing The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 Juliana Mansvelt, Mary Breheny
Expectations for ageing well in later life are connected to, but not limited to, access to economic resources. This research investigates how older people of differing living standards reflect on choices made in the context of their everyday lives. In‐depth interviews with 143 older New Zealanders revealed that claims to choice were a means of validating oneself as capable, able to manage the uncertainty
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Of manners and hedgehogs: Building closeness by maintaining distance The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-05-28 Iza Kavedžija
This paper explores how the Japanese inhabitants of a densely populated urban neighbourhood negotiate proximity and distance in their social relationships. Based on ethnography of a community salon in the city of Osaka, the paper explores how topics and styles of conversation, modes of interaction between salon‐goers, are constituted with respect to a pervasive concern for manners and for the emotions
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Honouring the elders: The common good among Karen communities – a multi‐sited ethnography The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-05-27 Pia Jolliffe, Shirley Worland
This article discusses intergenerational relations and moral values among Karen communities in Thailand, Myanmar, Australia, Norway and the UK. We use a conceptual framework inspired by Christian anthropology and the notion of the “common good” to analyse how the practice of honouring the elderly is sustained by virtues of “acknowledged dependence” and “rational independence” (MacIntyre 2009). The
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Lamenting the real and crying for the really real: Searching for silences and mourning martyrdom amongst Iranian volunteer militants The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-04-17 Younes Saramifar
Martyrdom, sacrifice, and the dedication of one's life to fight for a higher cause are central themes of Shi'i militancy. I recount my journey among Iranian Shi'i youth who fought or enlisted to fight in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria, to trace their ineffable experiences and silences, which they used to justify desires for martyrdom. I explore by way of an ethnography of mourning and the lamentation ceremonies
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Weather from incest: The politics of indigenous climate change knowledge on Palawan Island, the Philippines The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-03-23 Will Smith
Indigenous peoples' understandings of climate change are often interpreted through an instrumental prism that privileges the ecologically adaptive nature of belief and practice. This paper explores the limits of this perspective by considering the environmental narratives of self‐blame among households in the uplands of Palawan Island, the Philippines. In the south of the island, indigenous Pala'wan
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To separate is to sustain: Sacrifice and national belonging among East Timorese in West Timor The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.449) Pub Date : 2018-03-13 Andrey Damaledo
This paper examines the way the notion of sacrifice is used to reclaim national belonging and entitlements. I particularly focus my discussion on pro‐Indonesian East Timorese who left East Timor and decided to stay in West Timor after their historic referendum. The East Timorese experience of violent colonisation, military occupation, family breakdown and separation might help explain the existence
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