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Theodore Schwartz »

Theodore Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. He has conducted more than seven years of field research in Papua New Guinea, beginning in 1953. His publications include numerous journal articles, edited volumes (New Directions in Psychological Anthropology, 1992, with Catherine Lutz and Geoffrey M. White; Socialization as Cultural Communication: Development of a Theme in the Work of Margaret Mead, 1980), and The Paliau Movement in the Admiralty Islands, 1946–1954 (1962). In 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. He lives in Del Mar, California.

Michael French Smith »

Michael French Smith received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1978. He first went to Papua New Guinea in 1973 as a research assistant to Theodore Schwartz and he has returned many times. His publications include Hard Times on Kairiru Island (1994), Village on the Edge (2002), and A Faraway, Familiar Place (2013). As an applied anthropologist, he has provided project design and evaluation expertise to organisations throughout the United States and in several Pacific Islands and Latin American countries. He lives in Honor, Michigan.

Trish Mercer »

Trish Mercer is a Visiting Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government at The Australian National University.

Russell Ayres »

Russell Ayres is a policy consultant and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.

Brian Head »

Brian Head is the Director of the Centre for Policy Futures and Professor of Public Policy in the School of Political Science, University of Queensland.

Darryl Palmer »

Darryl Palmer has a BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne; a BD (Hons) from Drew University; and a ThM from Harvard University. He has been lecturing in Classics since 1960.

Understanding the news in 2021 »

As the Myanmar coup continues to rattle world politics, two books shed a light on Myanmar’s turbulent democratic history. Trevor Wilson’s Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar and Andrew Selth’s 2020 publication Interpreting Myanmar are available for free download. With the UNHCR reporting that

ANU Press triumphs in year of turmoil »

Bolstered by the unprecedented growth in remote online learning, ANU Press enjoyed its most successful year to date. With a collection now exceeding 940 titles and 5 million downloads annually, ANU Press emerged from the turmoil of 2020 as one of the world’s largest open-access publishing houses.

Top education titles »

ANU Press specialises in publications from Asia and Pacific Studies, Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Public Policy. Highlighting the diversity of ANU Press’s collection, we recommend the following titles for students or educators. All readers can browse the catalogue by subject area and

Elizabeth Buchanan »

Elizabeth Buchanan is Lecturer of Strategic Studies with Deakin University and a Fellow of the Modern War Institute at West Point. Dr Buchanan holds a PhD in Russian Arctic strategy from The Australian National University and was recently the Visiting Maritime Fellow at the NATO Defense College. She has been a Visiting Scholar with the Brookings Institution and has experience in the global oil sector.

Catherine Fisher »

Dr Catherine Fisher is a historian and policy adviser who holds a PhD from the School of History at The Australian National University. She co-edited Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her work has been published in Women’s History Review and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, and she has contributed to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Kate Senior »

Kate Senior is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. She has worked in collaboration with Daphne Daniels and the Ngukurr community for the last 20 years, with a particular emphasis on the lives and wellbeing of young people in the community. Research conducted for her Australian Research Council Future Fellowship provided the impetus for this publication.

Richard Chenhall »

Richard Chenhall is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He has conducted research with Indigenous communities and organisations for over 20 years in the area of the social determinants of health, alcohol and other drugs, sexual health and youth wellbeing.

Victoria Burbank »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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).

Achieving reconciliation and reconnection through a re-remembering of our past »

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

Sana Ashraf »

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 »

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.

Cecelia Cmielewski »

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.

Book Launch – Learning Policy, Doing Policy »

On 16 June, Professor Ariadne Vromen chaired a breakfast launch of the new ANU Press ANZSOG series publication Learning Policy, Doing Policy. This is the latest in what is a long series of publications from Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), which is rapidly approaching its

Reflections on the ANZSOG series from its contributors »

The final book in the ANZSOG series published this month, so we asked some of the editors and contributors across its long history to contribute some of their thoughts on its impact over the years. Join us as we reflect and celebrate the 56 titles that have published since 2006, and the invaluable

Read a chapter from our upcoming book, ‘Indigenous Australian Youth Futures’ »

In 2014, Angelina Joshua, a young Indigenous woman from the Ngukurr community in the Northern Territory, presented her autobiographical story of living the social determinants of health to the Australian Anthropology Conference. Although we might know something about the ways in which health is

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Aboriginal History Journal »

Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history. Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra. For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au. Submission details Please send article submissions to aboriginal.history@anu.edu.au. Articles of about 7,000 words in length (including footnotes and references) are preferred, but submissions up to 9,000 words will be considered. Please submit an electronic version of the paper (text only without embedded images or scans) in Microsoft Word or RTF format, along with a short abstract and author biography as a separate document.

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