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Emotional and financial health during COVID_19: The role of housework, employment and childcare in Australia and the United States
Published 2021During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed major economic, school, and daycare closures. We sampled respondents in Australia and the US during the height of the first restrictions to understand ...Article -
The compensation page: News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism
Published 2020-09-25In Papua New Guinea (PNG), news media frequently report on events in which groups exchange gifts as compensation for alleged harms. In news narratives of this type, compensation is a metaphor for the contact between liberal ...EmbargoedArticle -
Yuendumu Dog Tales
Published 2018-01-01For every Warlpiri myth, fable, or folktale about a child left in camp by its parents while they go hunting, a child who then gets adopted by dingoes, who treat it as one of their own, there is a myth, fable, or folktale ...Book chapter -
Predicaments of Proximity: Revising Relatedness in a Warlpiri Town
Published 2017-01-01Relatedness has been a fundamental notion in recent studies of Aboriginal personhood. My research asks how people who ‘form a mob' decide with whom to do this and for how long. The concept of relatedness—while useful—distracts ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
Published 2014-01-01Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal ...Book