Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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The child everyone has inside: anthropology and the labor theory of value
Published 2022This paper revisits the debate on the relevance of the labor theory of value for the anthropological task. It argues that the labor theory of value can creatively inform and reformulate in critical ways a variety of social ...Article -
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 ...Open AccessArticle -
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