Oceania

Papers
(The TQCC of Oceania is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction: Dependence in Oceania8
Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia7
Tribute: Friedegard Elsbeth Tomasetti, 1937–20206
On the Backside of a Wave: An Obituary for a Star – Marshall Sahlins (December 27, 1930–April 5, 2021)5
Issue Information5
A Research Note on Laterality and Lineality in Austronesian Relationship Terminologies5
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Balgo. Creating Country. By JohnCarty. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing. 2021. Pp: ix + 395. Price: A$ 89.992
The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands By: PierreMaranda, James TuitaDede and BenBurt. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 2022 pp: 112 Price: £235.402
‘A Filmmaker Fond of Anthropology’: Ian Dunlop (1927–2021)2
From Colonial Order to Decolonial Future: Colonial Mimesis and Identity among the Papua Besena Movement2
Defying Predictions: Global Bureaucracy and the Art of not Making Guesses about Papua New Guinea2
Decolonisation beyond Independence: Reflections from the Papua New Guinea Experience — An Afterword2
Correction to “Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships”1
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Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project. By Emilia E.Skrzypek.New York: Berghahn. 2021. Pp. xiv + 237. Price: US$1351
How They Fought. Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia's Frontier Wars. By RayKerkhove. Tingalpa, AU: Boolarong Press. 2023. Pp: x + 420. Price: A$39.991
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It is Christ or Corruption in Papua New Guinea: Bring in the Witness!1
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‘Becoming Stronger’: Christianity, Indigenous Politics of Self‐Determination, and Endogenous Transformation in West Papua1
Asserting Land, Estranging Kin: On Competing Relations of Dependence in Vanuatu1
Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs. Juju‐ngaliyarlu karnalu‐jana pina‐pina‐mani kurdu‐warnu‐patu jujuku. By Georgia Curran, Linda Barwick, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Simon J1
Wars of Dependence: Contested Histories Among Tolai People of Papua New Guinea1
Moro and the Weather Coast: A Revitalization Movement in the Solomon Islands. By Gülbün ÇokerO'Connor. Durham, NC, USA: Carolina Academic Press. 2022. Pp: 203. Price: US$44.001
Frontier Narratives That Take on Flesh: Tracing Legacy, Labour, and Legitimacy in Outback Queensland, Australia1
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We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea. By Jason SteadmanRoberts. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. 2024. Pp: xiii +248. Price: US$65.001
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea. By DonKulick. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. 2019. Pp: 273. Price: US$26.950
Quilting Power:Mana,UNESCOand Spiritual Sovereignty in the Marquesas Islands0
Ancestral Presence. Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands. By EricHirsch. London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge. 2021. Pp: ix + 238. Price: £38.99 (paperback), £130.00 (har0
Sama Bajo Resilience in the Time of COVID0
A Research Note on Austronesian Relationship Terminologies With and Without Relative Age Categories0
Declarations of ‘Self‐Reliance’: Alternative Visions of Dependency, Citizenship and Development in Vanuatu0
The Years of Terror: Banbu‐Deen: Kulin and Colonists at Port Phillip 1835‐1851. By Marguerita Stephens and Fay Stewart‐Muir. North Melbourne, AU: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2023. P0
Self‐Lowering as Power and Trap: Wawa, ‘White’, and Peripheral Embrace of State Formation in Indonesian Papua0
Sustainable Water in Mining? The Importance of Traditional Owner Involvement in Commercial Water Use and Management in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia0
Honiara: Village‐City of Solomon Islands. By CliveMoore. Canberra: ANU Press. 2022. Pp: xxx + 547. Price: Free Download0
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Letter to the Editor0
‘Wallis and Futuna Have Never Been a Colony’: A Non‐sovereign Island Territory Negotiating Primary Education with Metropolitan France0
Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia. By PeterSutton and KenHale. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. 2021. Pp. xviii + 487. Price: A$83.00 or Free Download.0
See How We Roll: Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia. By MelindaHinkson.Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. Pp: vii + 240. Price: USD 25.95.0
Making Waves: The Role of Indigenous Water Beings in Debates about Human and Non‐Human Rights0
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Review Essay on Illustrated Handbook of Yolŋu Sign Language of North East Arnhem Land by BentleyJames, A.C.D.Adone, and E.L.Mypliama (eds). (Australian Book Connection. 2020)0
Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia (PNG)0
Editorial0
Intra‐Action in a Central Australian Community Development Project0
The Wind Is Always Blowing: Generative Crosscurrents of Ethnographic Dialogue in Australia0
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‘Why can't we speak up for ourselves…?’ Water Futures and Ethnographic Provocations0
Kurangara in Queensland?: A Critique of Duncan‐Kemp's Account0
Yinbarnini Ngukunginyi (Singing of Water)0
Water as Country on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia0
The Larrakia Kinship Terminology: Asymmetrical Cross‐Cousin Marriage and Omaha Skewing0
Notions of (In)Dependence at a Papua New Guinean University0
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The Wet: Shifting Seasons, Climate Change and Natural Cycles in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland0
Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological Essays in Honour of Peter Sutton. By Julie D.Finlayson and FrancesMorphy [eds]. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. 2020.  Pp: 3000
Afterword: Kinship Possibilities in Water Futures0
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Phone & Spear: A Yuṯa Anthropology. By Miyarrka Media (Paul Gurrumuruwuy, Jennifer Deger, Enid Guruŋulmiwuy, Warren Balpatji, Meredith Balanydjarrk, James Ganambarr, Kayleen Djingadjingawuy)0
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Erratum0
Ian Dunlop and the Yirrkala Film Project0
My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire. By SiobhanMcDonnell. Honolulu, HI, USA: University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2023. pp: xiv + 240. Price: US$68.00.0
Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society. The Kwoma in a Cross‐Cultural Perspective. By Ross Bowden. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books. 2022. Pp.: xi +143. Price: US$95.00.0
France and Oceanian Sovereignties0
Interdependent Kin in Māori Marine Environments0
Making Fun of Animals: Ontological Implications of Rituals and Taboos Observed in Geographically and Linguistically Discontinuous Regions of Southeast Asia and Southwestern China0
Sovereignty and Coloniality in the French‐Speaking Pacific: A Reflection on the Case of New Caledonia, 1980–20210
Editorial0
LSMPA Sovereignties in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: Territorialities, Alliances and Powers in Oceania0
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Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships0
‘Life Will Be Very Different after the War’: Administrative, Political and Academic Tensions in the Development of Papua New Guinea after the Second World War0
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In the Shadow of the Palms: More‐Than‐Human Becomings in West Papua. By SophieChao. Durham, NC, USA and London, UK: Duke University Press. 2022. Pp: x + 336. Price: US$28.95.0
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2022 Conference Distinguished Lecture: Social Movement Sightseeing in Melanesia and Beyond0
Water Futures in Australia: Materialities, Temporalities, Imaginaries0
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement. By: AidanCraney, Canberra: ANU Press. 2022. pp. xiv + 236. Price: Free Download.0
Dedication0
Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu. By TomBratrud. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2022. Pp: xxii + 213. Price: US$1350
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‘Never a Colony’?: Rethinking the Colonisation of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea0
The religious self‐alteration of Shem Irofa'alu during the anti‐colonial Maasina Rule in Solomon Islands (1944–1953)0
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Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania. By MatthewLauer. Los Angeles, CA, USA: University of California. 2023. Pp: 292. Price: US$85.000
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Sago Versus Rice and the Reorganisation of Ritual Spacetime: Competing Modes of Dependency in an Age of Decentralisation in Asmat, Indonesian Papua0
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Response to Letter to the Editor by Sally Babidge0
Anarchy and the Art of Listening. By JamesSlotta. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. 2023. Pp: xii + 201. Price: US$31.95.0
God is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific. By MattTomlinson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2020. Pp. xii + 161. Price: US$280
Kamapim gutpela man: Papua New Guinean and Chinese refinery workers' changing understandings of becoming a good man0
Misty Bodies of Water and Artistic Relationality in the Hydrocene0
Gender Equality Theology and Essentialism: Catholic Responses to Gender‐Based Violence and Inequality in Papua New Guinea0
Obituary for Jeremy Long0
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia. By Emma Kowal. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press. 2023. Pp: xv + 248. Price: US$27.95 and 104.95.0
Activating the Vā: Performance, Academia and the Sublime — Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) 2023 Distinguished Lecture0
‘Menjadi Manusia’ (Becoming Somebody): The Aspirations and Realities of Marind Young People, Papua, Indonesia0
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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History. By RyōtaNishino. London, UK: Bloomsbury. 2022. Pp: xvi + 248. Price: USD$120.000
Critique, Vision and Cosmology: Millenarian Ideas in Melanesia0
Notes on Sovereignty in Vanuatu0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru. By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY, US and London, UK: Cornell University Press. 2023. Pp: 318. Price: A$67.950
From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors? Post‐Classical Indigenous Beliefs about Human Ancestral Spirits and Human Ancestral Remains0
Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia. By ChristopheDarmangeat, Lanham, MD, US: Lexington Books. 2020. Pp: 290. Price: Hardback US$123.00, eBook US$45.00.0
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Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia. By Sarah E.Holcombe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2018. Pp: 384. Price: A$300
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy0
Gardens of Gold: Place‐Making in Papua New Guinea. By Jamon AlexHalvaksz. Seattle, NJ: University of Washington Press. 2020. Pp: xv + 226. Price: US$ 30.000
The Wagiman Landscape: Mental Maps and Prototypes0
‘Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia (PNG)’ by Jadran Mimica0
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2021 Conference Distinguished Lecture: Contemporary Filmmaking in Oceania0
Coercive Exchange: Magic, Agency and the Gift in a Melanesian Society0
Gaynor Macdonald (1948–2022)0
Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara. By IanWhite. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 2020. Pp: xix + 108. Price: $39.950
Gridiron Capital. How American Football Became a Samoan Game. By LisaUperesa. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press. 2022. Pp: xviii+218. Price: A$102.95.0
Introduction to Special Issue ‘Rethinking Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea’0
If the Yagwoia were the Gimi…: A Reply to Gillison's Critical Appraisal of ‘Stalked by the Malignant Spirit…’0
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Kes (Passageway): Cross‐Cultural Considerations of Island Field Containment in the Torres Strait0
Review Essay on Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls. An Essay on the Yagwoia Womba Complex. By Jadran Mimica. Chicago: Hau Books. 2020. p. xvii + 160, Price: US$17.960
‘Cutting the Colonial Cord’? Tensions of Value and the Relationship between Tokelau and New Zealand0
Achievement, Ascription, andMana: A Step beyond Binary Opposition in Studying Leadership in Oceania0
Farmers or Hunter‐Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. By PeterSutton & KerynWalshe. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2021.Pp: 288. Price: US$ 34.990
Water Lore: Practice, Place, Poetics. By CamilleRoulière & ClaudiaEgerer. London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Earthscan from Routledge. 2022. Pp: xxi + 261. Price: A$75.99.0
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Talanoa Dialogue at UN Climate Change Meetings: The Extraordinary Encompassment of a Scale‐Climbing Pacific Speech Genre0
Suspicion and Overlapping Orders of Precedence: Imagining Secret History in Founder‐Focused Societies of Eastern Indonesia0
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention. By TessLea. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2020. Pp: xi + 207. Price: US$250
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