Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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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 -
A story in and on signs: Making resistance and acquiescence legible as forms of resilience
Published 2019-01-01In 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 AccessBook chapter -
Introduction: Monsters, Anthropology, and Monster Studies
Published 2014-01-01Every 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 AccessBook chapter -
Yulyurdu: Smoke in the Desert
Published 2018-01-17I begin this paper with a nod to ‘the beginning’ by linking smoke to fire, and fire to humankind. Bound up in this deep history of smoke and humanity is a dichotomy cleaving humans from animals and the west from the rest. ...Open AccessArticle -
Telling Warlpiri Dog Stories
Published 2017-03-01Ostensibly 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 AccessArticle