• Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond 

      Musharbash, Yasmine; Geir, Presterudstuen
      Published 2014-01-01
      Offering 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
    • A story in and on signs: Making resistance and acquiescence legible as forms of resilience 

      Musharbash, Yasmine
      Published 2019-01-01
      In 2007, the federal Australian government announced and began to implement the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER, locally called ‘The Intervention’), a sweeping and often-times draconian policy ostensibly ...
      Open Access
      Book chapter
    • Introduction: Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies 

      Musharbash, Yasmine
      Published 2014-01-01
      Every field-site has monsters—spooky, menacing, terrifying beings—who lurk in the shadows and the dark, under beds, in caves and lakes, beyond the line of sight, and in the imagination. Some cause mischief, others protect, ...
      Open Access
      Book chapter
    • Telling Warlpiri Dog Stories 

      Musharbash, Yasmine
      Published 2017-03-01
      Ostensibly about dingoes and dogs, this paper explores aspects of the contemporary social world of Warlpiri people in the camps of the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu (Northern Territory) through canines. Analyses ...
      Open Access
      Article
    • Anthropology and Smoke: Editors’ Introduction to the Smoke Special Issue 

      Dennis, Simone; Musharbash, Yasmine
      Published 2018-03-27
      In this introductory paper, we contemplate both a variety of anthropological approaches to smoke and how analyses of smoke – as object, material, phenomenon, practice, or political fact – might contribute to anthropological ...
      Open Access
      Article