The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA) publishes scholarly papers and book reviews in anthropology. ✒️ @aus_anth 📖 @WileyGeoAnthro
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Our new issue is now available! We published four new original research articles (2 available for free with OA), plus book reviews and a book forum. Find Volume 34, Issue 2 here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
Please sign and distribute the Open Letter to Save the Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. The letter opposes the proposed cuts to 30% of academic staff. See more here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Why has the University of the South Pacific never offered a study program in #anthropology, and yet established a professorial chair in social anthropology in 1974? @UniSouthPacific @EASAinfo
Insights in my @JournalTaja publication👇
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"He [Epeli Hau'ofa] saw himself as a lapsed anthropologist. He left the church, so to speak." (Barbara Hau’ofa, interview, 2014)
More about the history and present perceptions of #anthropology @UniSouthPacific in my journal article:
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Tess Lea explores naturalized policy: policy unplugged, gone live, ramifying in everyday life, to show that it is policies that are wild, not the people being targeted. Read the book review by Morgan Harrington here: buff.ly/3tm37tm
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Preparing for the Voice to Parliament referendum: C. Scott and M. Mulrennan explore property as social practice and argue that reordering territorial jurisdiction would provide more authentic conditions for cultural autonomy: buff.ly/3Q1kSaz
Our latest issue is now available online!
In Volume 34, Issue 2, we featured four original research articles (2OA), 4 book reviews and a book discussion of @MaliniSur 's book. More here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
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Nominations for the 2023 AAS Thesis Prizes will close this Friday at 5pm! For more info, please visit our website: aas.asn.au/thesisprizes. We are also seeking AAS Fellows to judge the thesis & article submissions. If interested please let us know at [email protected].
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Sophie Chao deploys ‘abu-abu’ as an ethnographic device to examine the grey zone that Marin people inhabit, a condition of awkward existence and ambiguity. More on this and other topics in our latest issue. Available here: buff.ly/3rWTOiP
Be sure to register for the AAS Conference via the link below:
Early bird registrations are now open for AAS 2023, @aus_anth! Open until 28 October.
To register please go to register.oxfordabstracts.com…
28 November to 1 December 2023 Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University, Sydney
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Early bird registrations are now open for AAS 2023, @aus_anth! Open until 28 October.
To register please go to register.oxfordabstracts.com…
28 November to 1 December 2023 Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University, Sydney
Paper submissions are open until Aug 6, 2023 for @aus_anth 2023 conference! Fantastic panels this year on the theme of Vulnerabilities
28 November to 1 December 2023
Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University, Sydney
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This book is the culmination of Sophie Chao’s long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Marind people. It goes beyond the conventional political economy of plantations to bring us into the lifeworld of Marind and their relationship with foreign plants: buff.ly/44OmnwE
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From our latest issue: Nur Isiyana Wianti and Andrew McWilliam highlight systemic impacts of the COVID pandemic and the range of adaptive strategies that Sama Bajo households used to cope and thrive under difficult conditions. More here: buff.ly/3rWTOiP
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The application portal for the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and Post-PhD Research grant is now available!
Deadline: Nov. 1st, 11:59 PM EST.
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PPHD: buff.ly/3A3coGn
If you have questions email [email protected].
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Sons replace fathers in ways that fathers may experience as ‘violent loss of ... generative bodily core’, a process that Mimica asserts ‘can only be adequately understood through individual-biographical life-situations and trajectories’. This and more: buff.ly/3rWTOiP
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Gillian Gillison provides a comment on Jadran Mimica’s research, in which Jadran presents the ‘life-world’ of Yagwoia people of PNG as a unique variant of the Jungian Ouroboric archetype, a pattern/symbol derived from the ancient Greek ‘tail devourer’: buff.ly/3QUyQf9
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Naarm-based anthropologists and anthropology-enthusiasts - come along to two events being organised by @anthropspective and the Centre for Native Title Anthropology in September!
More info + tickets here:
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Working through what she calls “ontological openings”, her interests include the study of politics, multispecies (or multi-entities), indigeneity, history and the a-historical, world anthropologies and the anthropologies of worlds. Join next week!👇👇
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NEW! We begin our latest issue by challenging commonly held notions of gift exchange in Melanesia and Sahlin’s model of leadership in Oceania. Find these and more ethnographic articles here buff.ly/3rWTOiP
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By drawing on Oceania-wide ethnographic work, Francois-Xavier Faucounau argues that the two opposed paradigms underlying Sahlins’ model of leadership - achievement and ascription - are entangled in practices and ideologies. For more: buff.ly/3qccVVW
