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Victoria Burbank PhD, FASSA, was a professor of anthropology at the University of Western Australia between 1994 and 2014. Drawing upon her experiences in the south-eastern Arnhem Land community of Numbulwar, she has published three books: Aboriginal Adolescence, Fighting Women and An Ethnography of Stress, along with a number of papers and book chapters. Now ‘retired’ she continues to draw on her expertise in psychological anthropology via public presentations, postgraduate supervision, reviewing and editing.
Kenneth Locke Hale (1934–2001), who preferred to be called Ken, carried out fieldwork and published on a very large number of languages, not just in Australia but internationally. He was a supremely gifted polyglot and also an academic linguist of distinction, who taught in the Linguistics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1967 to 1999. In 1960 Hale carried out comparative work on a large number of languages of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. On the basis of that work, he wrote expert submissions for the Wik native title claim in 1997. The claim’s historic success was due in no small part to Hale’s contribution.
Peter Sutton is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. He is an author, anthropologist and linguist who has lived and worked with Australian Aboriginal people since 1969. He is a specialist in native title anthropology, Cape York languages and Aboriginal art. He has been an author or editor of 16 books, the most recent being The Politics of Suffering (2009), Iridescence (2015, with Michael Snow) and Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate (2021, with Keryn Walshe). He played various roles as an anthropological researcher 1979–2021 in 87 Aboriginal land claims.
Lisa Palmer teaches and researches on indigenous environmental knowledge and practices at the University of Melbourne. She lives in Melbourne and regularly travels to Timor-Leste to carry out research and visit extended family. She has published widely and is the author of an ethnography on people’s complex relations with water in Timor-Leste titled Water Politics and Spiritual Ecology: Custom, Environmental Governance and Development (2015, Routledge). Working also through visual methods she has directed two films, Wild Honey: Caring for Bees in a Divided Land and Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste.
Emilia E. Skrzypek is an MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Research Fellow at the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of St Andrews, and an honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland. Her work to date has largely focused on Papua New Guinea, where she investigates issues related to broadly conceived resource relations and interdependencies. She is particularly interested in stakeholder engagement and social impacts at undeveloped complex orebodies. She is the author of Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project (Berghahn, 2020).
It is some 250 years since the Endeavour limped into what is now known as Cooktown, in North Queensland. There, Cook has been remembered conflictingly as the town’s founder and as the instigator of violence towards Guugu Yimithirr people. Yet, from the late 1990s, as the Guugu Yimithirr people
Dr Cameron Hazlehurst FRSL FRHistS, is an honorary professor in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University and a foundation principal of The Ethicos Group, a specialist consultancy in public sector ethics and governance. He has held fellowships at Nuffield College and The Queen’s College, Oxford, and The ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences. He was foundation professor and head of the School of Humanities at Queensland University of Technology. He served in senior government posts in Urban and Regional Development and Communications, has undertaken numerous policy consulting and advisory roles, and acted as executive producer or research consultant for several television series. Dr Hazlehurst has published widely on Australian government and political history, including biographical studies of Robert Menzies (Menzies Observed) and Gordon Chalk (Gordon Chalk: A Political Life), the official history of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and studies of the advent of commercial television and satellite broadcasting in Australia.
As a young woman growing up in a mixed-sect family in Pakistan, Dr Sana Ashraf spent her formative years grappling with how to be a good Muslim. This sparked her interest in religious and cultural understandings of purity and, later, their connection with violence. She formally studied this link first as a Master’s student in Anthropology at the Central European University and then as a PhD candidate at The Australian National University. This book is based on her PhD thesis, which has won multiple awards including the Australian Anthropological Society’s PhD Thesis Prize 2020. She now works in the policy sector in Australia on issues of gender and migration.
Owen Edwards has carried out primary fieldwork on a number of languages of Indonesia, including Meto for which he wrote his doctoral thesis at The Australian National University, describing and analysing morphological metathesis. His linguistic interests include morphology, phonology, historical linguistics and Austronesian linguistics. He is the managing editor of Oceanic Linguistics and is currently based in Germany where he continues his linguistics research.
Dr Cecelia Cmielewski is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, cultural consultant, curator and arts manager and has held senior positions at the Australia Council for the Arts. Her work analyses the relationship between Australian cultural policies and the fostering of creative practices including cultural infrastructure research for NSW local councils.