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The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Pascale Taplin, Claire Holland, Lorelei Billing
The Australian Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) provides for the recognition of rights and interests which arise from the traditional laws and customs of Australian First Nation peoples. Processing applications for a determination of native title can take many years and involves numerous stakeholders, presentation of evidence of ongoing connection with the land and sea within a claim area, negotiations
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Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Hatib Abdul Kadir
West Papuans' dependency on mangroves is a consequence of Sorong's status as a frontier town. Originally developed to accommodate the oil industry, Sorong is an attraction for Indonesian settlers who have dominated and continue to dominate the town's geographical and economic spaces. By combining multispecies ethnographic studies with issues of power relations in urban areas related to settler colonialism
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S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Susannah Ostojic, John Taylor
In examining affective motivations and meanings associated with kin-based tattooing, this article proposes a practice of ‘s/kinship’: the tangible inscription of relational personhood on the body. While research on the practice of Western tattooing has long been drawn into discourses of deviance and individual identity, little attention has been paid to the tattooing of social relations. Drawing on
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Cross-sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Asanka Gunasekara, Robyn Eversole, Kiros Hiruy, Sen Sendjaya, Tim Breitbarth
Employment plays a crucial role in the successful resettlement of migrants. However, there is a paucity of research on how to facilitate refugee employment outcomes and the role of cross-sector collaborations. Using a qualitative, multi-layered analysis of primary and secondary data from Australian settlement service providers (SSPs) and the businesses they work with, this study explores how public
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Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology: Explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible. By Lorraine Mortimer, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019, 347 pp. ISBN: 9780253043948 The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Holly High
The website rogersandall.com1 helpfully informs us that the original title of Mortimer's book, when it was at manuscript stage, was Letting Things Live: Roger Sandall's Films Meet Contemporary Anthropology. This is a much more apt title for this book, and it is regrettable if it was IUP that requested the change. The original title is a useful clarification for anyone wanting to read and engage with
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Introduction: From rupture to repair The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-01-14 Naomi Richman, J. Derrick Lemons
This special issue develops and expands the discussion about religious change within the anthropology of Christianity by introducing the analytic of ‘repair’ to complement ‘rupture’. Rupture has emerged in the last two decades as a framework for theorising ethnographic accounts of Christian conversion described in radical or absolute terms (e.g., Carroll, 2017; Daswani, 2011, 2015; Engelke, 2004, 2010;
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Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Jonathan Miles-Watson
County Durham in the UK has witnessed dramatic social and environmental shifts over the past 50 years, yet Durham Cathedral has stood at the heart of the region, seemingly solid, unchanging and eternal. It is frequently narrated as a prestigious jewel (a national treasure) that is surrounded by a countryside (and people) that clearly bear the time-marked scars of the processes of industrialisation
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The transnational village in Timor-Leste The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Michael Rose
Migrants in 2020 stay connected with their homes in ways unimaginable just 10 years ago. In the case of the Australian Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) which facilitates the short term, repeat travel of Timorese to Australia to engage in harvest labour, this connectivity particularly pronounced and important. In this article, drawing on original ethnographic fieldwork in the household of a returned SWP
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Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Matt Tomlinson
In the religious movement known as Spiritualism, a medium's task is to provide evidence that there is no such thing as death. Human existence is defined by Spiritualists in terms of continual spiritual progress rather than stark beginnings and endings, although converts do tell vivid stories of the moment they realised Spiritualism's truth. The movement changed over decades as mediums turned their
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Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Jon Bialecki
New technologies open up the possibility of rapid social change the likes of which has not been seen since the appearance of anatomically modern humans: humanity being either substituted by or transformed into a new post-human species. Such an unprecedented change is difficult to concretely imagine in advance of its occurrence because it would unfold in a heretofore unheralded manner, and due to the
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After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Naomi Richman
How do Pentecostal Christians seek repair and renewal in their lives, after their efforts to rupture with the past and become born again? In this article, I wish to consider the ways that a group of Nigerian Pentecostals who belong to a deliverance church re-narrativise their lives by constructing and entering into new timelines of history after their attempts to break with the past. This discursive
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The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed-Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 J. Derrick Lemons
The embrace of Donald J. Trump as a presidential candidate in 2016 was not a given for evangelical voters. The thrice married, one-time advocate for abortion, who prided himself on his ability to attract beautiful women did not seem like someone for whom evangelicals would enthusiastically show up to vote. Understanding the need to excite the tepid Evangelical base, evangelical leaders planned a meeting
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Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Joseph Webster
To all intents and purposes, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the Brethren of Gamrie, and the Orange Order each claim a monopoly over theological truth, believing that they are right and that everyone else is wrong. Such a position is hardly exceptional – strong versions of pluralism take precisely this same monopolistic stance, calling, in effect, for a rejection of anything that rejects
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Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, Samara Fernandez-Brown, Harry Jakamarra Nelson, Robin Japanangka Granites, Eddie Jampijinpa Robertson, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Margaret Napanangka Brown, Warren Japanangka Williams, Louanna Napangardi Williams, Georgia Curran
The police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker in Yuendumu in November 2019 instigated an immediate and determined response from Warlpiri families who were shocked and saddened by the death of a loved one in the prime of his life and enraged by this latest event in a long string of colonial injustices. This article collates perspectives as expressed in interviews and public statements from Warlpiri spokespeople
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What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia) The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Geneix-Rabault Stéphanie
This article aims to describe and analyse graffiti arts and tags in the city of Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, a multicultural and multilingual city which is home to people who have moved from many different areas of New Caledonia and other countries of the South Pacific. I aim to understand how the citizens of Nouméa use graffiti and tags to construct their plural identities and identify themselves
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Hom and Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Rodolfo Maggio
The residents of Gilbert Camp, an illegal settlement on the outskirts of Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, recurrently declare that life in town is hard. However, they have been migrating there, they keep doing so notwithstanding great challenges, and create the conditions for others to settle too. The apparent contradiction between their ideas and behaviours is resolved by looking at their
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Polynesianising and regenerating urban spaces: An analysis of the artworks and interventions of the Centre des Métiers d'Art de Polynésie française and of its artists The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Estelle Castro-Koshy, Tokainiua Devatine
This article studies the relationships that the Centre des Métiers d’Art de la Polynésie française (CMA—Centre for Arts and Crafts of French Polynesia), five contemporary artists connected to it, and their artworks, have with the city of Pape'ete and its urban environment. The first part analyses the teaching philosophy of the CMA and foregrounds its role as a tool of social mobility for its students
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Military policing and labour extraction in the north-west Kimberley The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Anthony Redmond
This paper explores the political economy of Australia's prison industrial complex and its severe impact on Indigenous communities. Taking a historical perspective, the paper moves between a broader analysis of the forced extraction of Indigenous labour by the state and private enterprise and the violence against Indigenous people which accompanies it.
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We just ‘SHAREit’: Smartphones, data and music sharing in urban Papua New Guinea The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Denis Crowdy, Heather A. Horst
This article examines how the use of mobile phones and associated software creates and sustains regionally diverse urban communities. There is an interdependent connection between music that is highly participatory and locally relevant, and processes involved in sustaining key social relationships across a variety of groupings. Increasingly ubiquitous technologies such as mobile phones are used for
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The archipelago of meaning: Methodological contributions to the study of Vanuatu sand drawing The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Simon Devylder
Vanuatu sand drawing has been listed by UNESCO since 2006 and has both fascinated and puzzled researchers from various disciplines for over a century. The inherent multi-dimensionality of the practice makes analysis complex, and until very recently developing a systematic methodology to study this intangible art form was difficult. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap with the analysis
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Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Géraldine Le Roux
This article shows that although Pacific arts began to be largely recognised in Australia in the 1990s, Pacific artists based in Australia remained mostly invisible in the contemporary art scene until the mid-2000s. I aim to demonstrate how Pacific artists and curators—who in some cases collaborated with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and curators—have made visible myriad Pacific identities
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Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Fiona Willans, Jim Gure, Tereise Vaifale, ' Elenoa Veikune
Mobile phone usage has increased at an unprecedented rate across the Pacific over the past 10–15 years, radically transforming the way communication takes place. The catalyst for this transformation is generally attributed to the breakdown of monopolies previously held by national telecom corporations over their own domestic markets, and the entrance of one particular new provider, Digicel. This paper
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Performing difference, longing for ‘home’: Claiming ethnic identities to build national unity among urban Solomon Islands youth The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Rachel Emerine Hicks
Since independence, Solomon Islands schools have aimed to establish a national identity and unity among Solomon Islanders; however, ethnic ties to ‘home’ remain strong. This is particularly evident in Honiara, the densely populated and multi-ethnic capital of Solomon Islands, when urban youth who have grown up in Honiara claim their home is in a province. This paper argues that the ‘unity in diversity’
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The tradition of indigenous people and the status of internal migrants – The story of exclusion in West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia) The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Simona Sienkiewicz
In this paper, I explore approaches in establishing cross-cultural relations between indigenous people and internal migrants in the district of West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia). According to current data, the number of people from other islands exceeds the local population but the district government neglects the ethnic issues. Emerging inequalities are becoming a challenge for internal migrants, especially
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An introduction in 3 parts: Anthropological perspectives on the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Yasmine Musharbash
This is an introduction in three parts. In the first part, I introduce this Special Issue, the briefs that led to its realisation, some of the key themes the contributors wrestle with, and the contributions themselves. The second part is more of a personal introduction; namely, an ethnographic narrative of my own experience of the first hours and days following the shooting. My aim here is to take
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Re-territorializing the city: Youth and the productive role of reggae music in Vanuatu The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Daniela Kraemer, Monika Stern
In Vanuatu, the popularity of reggae music has been on the rise since the late 1980s. Today, reggae music and reggae culture is ubiquitous. For many young people in Port Vila, Vanuatu's capital city, it is a fundamental component of their sense of belonging to the city. Their attraction to reggae derives from its messages of camaraderie, equality and justice. This paper argues that for many urban youth
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‘Cop chasing’ in Alice Springs: Youth experiences of surveillance in a Central Australian Town The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Lora Chapman
Indigenous youth living in Alice Springs are subject to routine forms of surveillance, facilitated by a range of stakeholders, including police, security guards, government agents, business owners and members of their own communities. ‘The problem’ of youth is the subject of much attention in media and community forums as well as Northern Territory specific legislation, resulting in increased levels
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Carceral spectres: Hyperincarceration and the haunting of Aboriginal life The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Patrick Horton
Drawing on recent participant observation-based data from the Northern Territory's Victoria River region, I propose that the coercive and custodial arms of the settler state are predominant features of, and constant and permanent forces of rupture in, remote Aboriginal life. I use the term ‘carceral spectres’ to describe the ways hyperincarceration and hyperpolicing shape, disturb and, in particular
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An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Daniela Kraemer, Monika Stern
It is estimated that by 2050, 50% of Pacific peoples will be living out their full lives in cities and towns throughout Oceania and around the world. Over the last 35 years, previous patterns of circular migration have been giving way to permanent urban settlers and to generations born and raised in urban places. These ‘urbanites’ demonstrate a firm commitment to urban living in both the present and
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Hope in a time of world-shattering events and unbearable situations: Policing and an emergent ‘ethics of dwelling’ in Lander Warlpiri country The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
In November 2019, members of Willowra community marched on the local police station in protest against the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker at Yuendumu. Expressing solidarity with family at Yuendumu, individuals breached the barbwire fence of the vacant police compound. Unlike settlements such as Yuendumu, which have had resident police for decades, Willowra police station is 1 of 18 Northern Territory
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Afterword: Context erasure The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Melinda Hinkson
This afterword reflects upon the not guilty verdict and the media reportage that followed the conclusion of the murder trial of Constable Zachary Rolfe. After the lifting of media embargoes, a plethora of new material was delivered into the public domain. Much of this material was forensic and voyeuristic in approach, dedicated to expanding the narrative of endemic physical violence in Kumunjayi Walker's
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Erasing trauma – Erasing indigeneity: How the settler colonial state erased Warlpiri trauma in the wake of the police shooting Kumunjayi Walker The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Liz Scarfe
In this paper, I argue that the rhetoric and discharge of state mental health care provisions in the wake of the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker reflect the logic of elimination that underpins settler-colonial societies. Firstly, the use of emotional politics and the diplomacy of sympathy transform the police shooting of an Aboriginal man into a simple loss of life. Secondly, the deployment of
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The rhetoric of the Brazilian far-right, built in the streets: The case of Rio de Janeiro The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Gabriel Bayarri Toscano
This article is an ethnographic exploration of the construction of far-right rhetoric in Brazil. It begins with a description of events on the final day of the 2018 election, when Jair Messias Bolsonaro won the presidency. To contextualise this scene, I analyse how far-right rhetoric was articulated in the Brazilian public sphere from June 2013 until 2018, specifically in the state of Rio de Janeiro
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Autoethnography and ‘chimeric-thinking’: A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Sarah Pini
This paper tackles the concept of alterity through an embodied perspective. By questioning my lived experience of cancer and how illness—as a disruptive event (Carel, 2008, 2016, 2021)—enables philosophical reflection and the exploration of ‘other’ ways of being-in-the-world (Merleau-Ponty 2012 [1945]), I ask if an embodied ‘chimeric-thinking’ can be used to question established notions of alterity
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Articulating Aboriginality in multicultural Redfern The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Ángeles Montalvo Chaves
Koori Radio was founded in Redfern in 1993 as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander radio station. Its aim was to give a voice to these communities, acting as a counterpoint to their stereotyped representation in mainstream media and promoting their creative practices (especially music). Rather than ‘thinking only Aboriginal’, it has increasingly embraced the ongoing multicultural diversity of modern
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Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large-scale irrigation modernisation The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jim Taylor
This paper is drawn from ethnographically informed research undertaken in 2016‒2017 pertaining to the planned modernisation of two large-scale irrigation schemes in Bangladesh, funded by the Asian Development Bank. The research confirms existing critical irrigation anthropology on the politics and power of large-scale irrigation modernisation and related drive to privatisation. The modernisation of
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Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political PartySulayman N.Khalaf St. Andrews Syrian Studies Series. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. Pp. x + 339, maps, charts, photos, bibliog., appendices, glossary, index. AUD $252 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐50626‐1 The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Fiona Hill
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Transcontinental polygyny, migration and hegemonic masculinity in Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Magdalena Brzezińska
In the context of transnational migration, many non-migrant men in Guinea-Bissau and The Gambia postulate a ‘transcontinental’ version of polygyny, wishing to have one wife in Europe and another in Africa. Such claims are made among competing notions of love based on romantic intimacy and monogamy. This article explores the ways in which people rationalise polygyny in transnational marriage, based
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Marriage migration from below: The assessing of ‘genuineness’ among binational couples in Australia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Henrike Hoogenraad
This article focuses on the Australian partner visa application process, as experienced by African-Australian couples in intimate heterosexual relationships. In Australia, similar to other Anglo-European countries, the visa application process is an increasingly complex procedure. In order to avoid sham marriages that are entered into for the sole purpose of obtaining residency, it heavily scrutinises
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Shifting states of love and intimacy The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Henrike Hoogenraad, Alison Dundon
Love and intimacy are personal as well as political; they are concepts that are multidimensional, complex, and, sometimes, contradictory; and are meaningful to institutions and states as well as individuals. Dynamic local and global forces generate shifts in perceptions and experiences of intimacy and love, which are mediated by a wide variety of actors, ideals, beliefs and practices. This introduction
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Love, beauty and women who surf: Tourism, transnational relationships and social mobility on Siargao Island, Philippines The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Karen A. Hansen
On Siargao Island, as elsewhere in the Philippines, women who enter into intimate relationships with Western men can attain economic capital, global opportunities and social mobility through their partners. On Siargao Island, local women who surf differentiate themselves from imaginings of ‘other’ Filipinas by emphasising their relationships with Western men as being ‘for love’ not money. Nevertheless
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Human–buffalo conflicts and intimacies in ‘modernising’ Nepal The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Sascha Fuller
In Nepal ‘development’ (bikas) frames local socio-cultural practices, including gendered and environmental practices, with lasting gendered and ecological outcomes. This tension is at the heart of everyday life in Ludigaun, a Bahun (high caste Hindu) village in West Nepal. Utilising a framework of a local familiar tension between ‘traditional’ ideas/practices and those imagined through ‘modernity’
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Power, identity and precarity: Sex workers’ “lived experience” of violence and social injustice in Bangladesh The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Habiba Sultana, DB Subedi
This article applies an anthropological perspective of violence to critique and interrogate the concept of social justice. It analyses Bangladeshi sex workers’ “lived experience” of symbolic and structural violence in different social worlds—the community and family, and brothels—as a new framework for understanding social injustice. We find that violence and injustice exist in a complex web of power
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Online dating profiles, shifting intimacies and the language of love in Papua New Guinea The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Alison Dundon
In this paper, I explore the privileging of the language of ‘love’ on dating profiles established by Papua New Guineans active on online dating sites. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), recent accessibility to the internet has led to people going online, with the aim of attracting partners and initiating relationships based on affection. I note that companionate ideals and the vocabulary of love are central
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Surfing, masculinity and resistance at Cloud 9: Filipino men who surf negotiating tourism spaces and social hierarchies on Siargao Island, Philippines The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Karen A. Hansen
This paper explores the interplay between global surfing masculinities, the colonial/feminising touristic order and local cultural norms in the Philippines through an analysis of surfing masculinities and the Visayan hierarchical ordering principal sipog (supog/ulaw), or shyness/modesty/shame/embarrassment. The touristic order constructs tropical tourism destinations as effeminate, a process which
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‘We are the ones who know the intimacies of the soil’: Grazier claims to belonging and changing land relations in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Mardi Reardon-Smith
Across Cape York Peninsula, the cattle grazing industry has declined in recent decades due to falling cattle prices, shorter wet seasons and land tenure changes. Remaining graziers perceive their status in the region as increasingly marginal and explain this precarity with the ‘locking up’ of Cape York land regimes and environments by National Parks and Aboriginal interests. Based on 14 months of ethnographic
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A genealogy of komunitas: Varieties of social formation and their signification in Bandung, Indonesia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Dayana Lengauer
Bandung is bustling with the activities of young people organised in komunitas. These social formations display a striking variety in terms of size, coherence, activity, mediatisation, institutional background, internal hierarchies, gender and age composition. Despite this heterogeneity, they capitalise on similar values, like peer solidarity, creativity or friendship. By attending to the formation
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Beauty as risk for Karen girls: Expulsion and early marriage at an upland Thai school The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Dayne O’Meara
Female adolescent sexuality is highly policed at upland Thai schools, particularly for students who teachers identify as ‘beautiful’. While Northern Thai cultural ideals of masculinity glorify the ‘wandering’ of male youth, girls are told that it is especially important that they postpone sexual activity until after completion of their schooling. For Karen students, this ideal may clash with personal
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Linking the Pleiades to a reawakened Black Duck Songline in Southeastern Australia The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Robert S. Fuller, Leslie W. Bursill
This article presents an analysis of an Aboriginal songline in South-eastern Australia that has not been previously recorded. As part of a project examining the astronomy and songline connections of the Saltwater Aboriginal peoples of the New South Wales coast, the Black Duck Songline was identified that may have links to the Pleiades star cluster. The Pleiades, known by many peoples as the Seven Sisters
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Men's politics, women's piety: The gendered asymmetry of Indonesia's new public Islams The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Julian Millie
The importance of embodied religious practice to public Islam in Indonesia is easily underrated. This article undertakes an empirical examination of two domains of public Islam in Indonesia: women's piety and formal Islamic party politics. Based on research with women's groups in West Java, the author argues that Islamic party politics rely upon fragmentation resulting from different understandings
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Productive exposures: Vulnerability as a parallel practice of care in ethnographic and community spaces The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-08-15 Gabriella Zizzo, Megan Warin, Tanya Zivkovic, JaneMaree Maher
Theories of vulnerability are most often seen in the anthropology of disaster studies, where socio-economic and political inequalities produce environmental vulnerabilities, and the people situated in these locations are positioned as vulnerable and dependent 'Others'. Rather than reproduce vulnerability as a concept denoting weakness, this paper seeks to examine the generative capacities of vulnerability
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Paiwanese aesthetic expression and its social values The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-07-23 Hueiyun Chen
This article focuses on the properties of Paiwanese aesthetic expression and their contributions to the system of social values. My analysis examines the rituals and the accoutrement of an aristocratic wedding ceremony. The generation of Paiwanese aesthetic expression is related to the group's hierarchical social system as well as its ancestral past. Aesthetic expression strengthens the social status
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Note from the book review editor The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Geir Henning Presterudstuen
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“Ophir” 2020. Directed by Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet. Arsam International and Fourth World Films. 97 minutes. The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 David Lipset
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Recent Anthropological Insights on Sustainability, Climate and the FutureLess is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. JasonHickelLondon: William Heinemann, 2020. xiii + 318 pp. ISBN 978178152504 (paperback). L 14.99.Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change.HannahKnoxDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. ISBN 97814478010869 (paperback). USD 25.95. The Australian Journal of Anthropology (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2021-05-02 Hans A. Baer