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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137636103321

Autore

Musharbash Yasmine

Titolo

Ethnography & the production of anthropological knowledge : essays in honour of Nicolas Peterson / / edited by Yasmine Musharbash & Marcus Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, ACT : , : ANU E Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-921666-97-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

301.0994

Soggetti

Archaeologists - Australia

Anthropology - Australia

Festschriften - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Foreword; 1. Nic's Gift: Turning ethnographic data into knowledge.; Part I. Ritual, Material Culture, Land and Ecology; 2. Splitting the Atom of Kinship: Towards an understanding of the symbolic economy of the Warlpiri fire ceremony.; 3. The 'Expanding Domain' of Warlpiri Initiation Rituals.; 4. Who Owns the 'De-Aboriginalised' Past? Ethnography meets photography: a case study of Bundjalung Pentecostalism.; 5. Thomson's Spears: Innovation and change in eastern Arnhem Land projectile technology.

6. 'Nothing Ever Changes': Historical ecology, causality and climate change in Arnhem Land, Australia.7. The Language of Property: Analyses of Yolngu relations to country.; Part II. Demand Sharing, the Moral Domestic Economy, Policy and Applied Anthropology; 8. From Applied Anthropology to an Anthropology of Engagement: Japanese anthropology and Australianist studies.; 9. Community Development as Fantasy? A case study of contemporary Maori society.; 10. Give or Take: A comparative analysis of demand sharing among the Menraq and Semai of Malaysia.

11. Owning Your People: Sustaining relatedness and identity in a South Coast Aboriginal community.12. Demand Sharing, Nutrition and Warlpiri Health: The social and economic strategies of food choice.; 13.



A Genealogy of 'Demand Sharing': From pure anthropology to public policy.; 14. Policy Alchemy and the Magical Transformation of Aboriginal Society.; Afterword: Peterson's Impartye-A short appreciation.; Appendix 1. Graduate students supervised by Professor Peterson.; Appendix 2. Nicolas Peterson: Collated publications, reports and films.; Index