Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Anthropology and Smoke: Editors’ Introduction to the Smoke Special Issue
Published 2018-03-27In 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 AccessArticle -
Evening Play: Acquainting Toddlers with Dangers and Fear at Yuendumu, Northern Territory
Published 2016-01-01Based on research with Warlpiri people at the Aboriginal town of Yuendumu in Central Australia, this chapter provides ethnographic material on and analysis of an Aboriginal extended family group’s nightly play sessions, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Triangle: A Narrative Portrait of Place-Gathered Monstrousness
Published 2016-01-01In this chapter, I consider notions of the sentient landscape from a philosophicallyinspired anthropological perspective, specifically, Edward Casey’s postulation that places ‘gather’. I provide a narrative portrait of the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
A Short Essay on Monsters, Birds, and Sounds of the Uncanny
Published 2016-01-01The crux of this essay is that birdsong—something generally thought of a pleasing and enjoyable—can function, in certain contexts, as an indexical sign of the presence of evil in the world. I narratively contrast notions ...Open AccessArticle -
'Country', 'community' and 'growth town': Three spatio-temporal snapshots of Warlpiri experiences of home
Published 2017-01-01The last 100 years have seen Warlpiri people experience drastic changes in ways of being in the world, from a hunting and gathering past, followed by violent frontier days and ensuing institutionalized sedentization in ...Open AccessBook chapter