Australian Journal of Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Anthropology 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker4
Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you4
Forecasts: A story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster By Caroline E.Schuster, illustrated by EnriqueBernardou, DavidBueno (Eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. xvii + 2124
Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor‐Leste3
Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility3
Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act3
The place of dreams in In the Shadow of the Palms3
Hedgehogs, killing, and kindness: The contradictions of care in conservation practice By LauraMcLauchlan, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. ix + 259, notes, references, ind3
Obituary for Bruce Rigsby2
Coal's final void: Extracted futures and the everyday making of the climate crisis By KariDahlgren, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2025. pp. xii +124, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 97810327866432
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By BenjaminHegarty, Ithaca and London: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press. 2022. pp. xvii + 1792
Love Across Class By RoseButler and EveVincent. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024. pp. xxx [2], 2–226. ISBN 9780522880113.2
Latour's swan songs: Grappling with the ecological crisis By Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schulz. On the emergence of an ecological class: A memo. Translated by Julie Rose, London: Polity Press. 2022. pp.2
Description, difference and history, in Melanesia, for example2
S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice2
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The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean By Ryan TuckerJones and Matt K.Matsuda (Volume 1); Anne PeretzHattori and JaneSamson (Volume 2) (Eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. Volu2
Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread2
Hauntology: A tale of two cities2
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African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust1
The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology1
The privilege of being banal: Art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By ElayneOliphant, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 20211
The rhetoric of the Brazilian far‐right, built in the streets: The case of Rio de Janeiro1
Traffic‐habits and local descent groups: Broadening the scope of ethnographic research into land rights after land claims1
Erasing trauma – Erasing indigeneity: How the settler colonial state erased Warlpiri trauma in the wake of the police shooting Kumunjayi Walker1
The role of social mechanisms in local ecological knowledge (LEK) for biodiversity conservation in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia1
What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia)1
An indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea1
The equivocal healthcare market in Bangladesh during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Policy, politics and life1
The tradition of indigenous people and the status of internal migrants – The story of exclusion in West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia)1
An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’1
Wild artefacts at two Australian museums1
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics1
Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories1
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Obituary for Donald Stanley Gardner (1949–2025)1
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Riding through epics: The cultural anthropology of horseback archery in the Mahabharata1
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the AnthropoceneNayanikaMathur. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 20211
The Exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings By SimonYoung and DavideErmacora (Eds.), Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. xii + 274, index (hbk and e1
Deborah BirdRose. Dreaming ecology: Nomadics and indigenous ecological knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia. DarrellLewisMargaretJolly (Eds.), Canberra: ANU Press. 2024. pp. xvi+337, notes, f1
Agreement‐making in the post‐claims era: Continuity and change over 22 years in western Arnhem Land1
Carceral spectres: Hyperincarceration and the haunting of Aboriginal life1
The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed‐Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump1
Performing difference, longing for ‘home’: Claiming ethnic identities to build national unity among urban Solomon Islands youth1
Anthropology and change over the ‘land rights era’: Towards treaties?1
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self–Other Relations across Southeast Asian Languages By Dwi NoverriniDjenar and JackSidnell (Eds), Singapore: NUS Press. 2023. pp. i1
Frictions around rendering technical: Land disputes over climate change mitigation projects in Suau, Papua New Guinea0
‘Playing the tourist card’: Clandestine solidarity in occupied Timor‐Leste0
Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows0
Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour By KirstenBell. London: Caw Press. 2022. pp. x + 208 notes, £11.99. figures, bibliography. ISBN: 97813999363230
The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China0
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Introduction: From rupture to repair0
Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension0
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REACH: Research as regeneration0
Circulations: Modernist imaginaries of colonialism and decolonization in Papua New Guinea By CourtneyHandman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2025. pp. 232, USD34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐52‐041600‐00
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Cross‐sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective0
Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy0
EPILOGUE: Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts0
Enacted relations: Performing knowledge in an Australian indigenous community By FrancaTamisari, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. 2024. pp. viii + 274. $34.95 (ebook), $135 (hardback). ISBN (hardb0
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Sentient ecologies: xenophobic imaginaries of landscapesBy Cotofana, Alexandra and HikmetKuran (Eds.), Berghahn: New York. 2023, 276 pages0
Small town markets and crowded buses: Later‐generation Australian–Hungarian ‘diaspora backpackers’ narrate their journey to Hungary0
Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap0
Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River: Environmental monitoring, social learning and Care of Place in Sabah, Malaysia0
Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post‐national Indian city: Streets, neighbourhoods, home By SanjaySrivastava, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 186. £75.00 (hc). ISBN: 97810091798670
FORM: Anthropology as design0
On Behalf of the Living. Directed by Ton Otto, Christian Suhr and Gary Kildea. Denmark: Moesgaard film, 2023, 105 min, filmed in Papua New Guinea and the Netherlands Documentary Educational Resources,0
The rites of normality: A co‐phenomenological auto‐ethnographic critique of a technocratic birth0
The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations0
Pragmatic cosmopolitanism in a parochial space: How international‐student returnees (re)negotiate home in Teochew, China0
Art and urban space in Athens: The spatial composition of a street art paradise0
Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation0
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Beading wáwya: Counting coup on cancer0
Attunement: Form in motion0
After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism0
Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga0
Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China0
Can we trust technology? By SarahPink and EmmaQuilty. New York: Routledge, 2025. pp. 103, figures, bibliography, index. USD43.99. ISBN 97810327104330
Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements0
Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology0
Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology0
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic StateDavidVineBerkeley: University of California Press, 2020. xxii + 426 pp., tables, illustra.,0
Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)0
Arts practice as subject and method: Contemporary anthropological perspectives0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier, Translated from the original French by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. By PhilippeDescola, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2024. pp 0
Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia0
Review of Evadne Kelly, Dancing spirit, love, and war: Performing the translocal realities of contemporary Fiji, studies in dance history. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 20190
Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world0
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Re‐territorializing the city: Youth and the productive role of reggae music in Vanuatu0
Jungle passports: Fences, mobility and citizenship at the Northeast India‐Bangladesh borderlands by Malini Sur.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Special series ethnographies of political0
Tantric religion and social change0
The presence of elephants: Sharing lives and landscapes in Assam By Paul G.Keil, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. viii + 173. ISBN: 978‐1‐003‐40298‐50
Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology: Explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible. By LorraineMortimer, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019, 347 pp. ISB0
Attenuated, transformed and re‐inscribed sacra: Towards an ethnography of traditional land tenure in the Northern Territory now0
Making our own destiny: Single women, opportunity, and family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo by LynneY, Nakano Honolulu: University of Hawai'i press. 2022. pp. xiii+238, ISBN: 97808248890
RossBowdenYalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston, 2022. Pp. x + 232, figures, bibliography, index, appendices. ISBN 978‐1‐912385‐51‐5 (HB)0
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The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fights Against Human Trafficking By LiebaFaier. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. pp. xv, 303, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐3056‐00
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Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large‐scale irrigation modernisation0
A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life0
Afterword: Reaching more than halfway0
Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia By EmmaKowal (Ed.), Durham, NC: Duke UP. 2023. pp. 264. US$27.95, ISBN: 97814780275390
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Obituary: Elfriede Hermann (1960–2025)0
‘Cop chasing’ in Alice Springs: Youth experiences of surveillance in a Central Australian Town0
Derriere le Miroir (but in parallel)John RichensTik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other Melbourne:Melbourne University Press. 2022. pp xi 2–260.ISBN 97805228781410
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Trial‐and‐error: Securing field access for qualitative research in Vietnam0
Afterword: A reconciled Australia: A vision for change based on continuity0
Samting Bilong Yumi Yet: Creative continuities and national beginnings0
Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in semarang By LukasLey (Ed.), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 240 pp. (pbk). US$27.00 (Sc). ISB0
Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor‐Leste0
Re‐imagining suburbia, feeling the future: reflections on collaborative ethnographic filmmaking0
Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting0
‘The last thing we want is somebody who liked a soft pink lipstick to have a bright red’: Dead body aesthetics in South Australian funeral homes0
From modernity to memes: Reexamining visual culture as a Christian vehicle0
Polynesianising and regenerating urban spaces: An analysis of the artworks and interventions of the Centre des Métiers d'Art de Polynésie française and of its artists0
Multispecies violence, ontological murk, epistemic resistance: Insights from the West Papuan plantation frontier–A response0
Universities and settler colonialism in two countries: Australia and IsraelDhoombak Gooboowana: A history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Volume 1: Truth By Ross L.Jones, Jame0
Beyond the law: Living blasphemy in Pakistan By MuhammadBilal. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. xv + 205, notes, bibliography, index, appendix, €139,99, ISBN 9783031710285 (hardcover)0
Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions0
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The temporality of dwelling in Christian Papua New Guinea0
Powerful things: The history and theory of sacred objects By Karl‐HeinzKohl, (2020). CanonPyon, Sean Kingston Publishing, xi+224 pp., foreword, index (hardback), A$110, ISBN: 978–1–912,385‐0
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Screen as stage0
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel By EdwardNarain and TarrynPhillips, Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2024. pp. viii +356, reading guide, references, acknowledgements, glossary. ISBN0
Dark tourism in Timor‐Leste: An examination of foreign tourists' visits to the Santa Cruz cemetery and the Comarca Balide prison via analysis of Tripadvisor reviews0
Uneven connections: A partial history of the mobile phone in Papua New Guinea By Robert J.Foster. Canberra: ANU press. 2024. pp. xvi + 221, notes, figures, bibliography, index. AU0
Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development0
Picking our way through modernity0
Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand0
The consumption of ritual and the changing values of filial piety in ancestor worship0
Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change0
Hope in a time of world‐shattering events and unbearable situations: Policing and an emergent ‘ethics of dwelling’ in Lander Warlpiri country0
Military policing and labour extraction in the north‐west Kimberley0
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Unbroken chains: The hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy By Melissa HopeDitmore, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2023. pp. xiv, 1–211. ISBN 97808070067710
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Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism0
Economic diversity in contemporary Timor‐Leste By KellySilva, LisaPalmer, TeresaCunha (Eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2023. pp. 326. ISBN: 97890872839570
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An introduction in 3 parts: Anthropological perspectives on the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker0
The archipelago of meaning: Methodological contributions to the study of Vanuatu sand drawing0
The antisemitism to come? Gaza and the colonial management of necropolitical pollution0
Fragrant FrontierBy SarahTurner; AnnuskaDerks; Jean‐FrançoisRousseau (Eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press. 2022. xv, 230pp., photos, index, figures, maps, tables. A$ 43. ISBN: 97887769431410
Unequal lives: Gender, race and class in the Western Pacific. By NicholasBainton, DebraMcDougall, KalissaAlexeyeff and JohnCox, eds. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, notes, figures, bibliog. A$800
Afterword: Context erasure0
The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay0
We just ‘SHAREit’: Smartphones, data and music sharing in urban Papua New Guinea0
Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’0
Come back anytime. Director: JohnDashbach, JD Media Ltd, 2021. 120 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles. Good docs.0
Sanan rai wisdom in Atauro's tourism transformation0
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The ocean on fire—Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists By AnaïsMaurer, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. pp. xvi + 240, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. US$26.95 (0
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Cosmopolitan gastro‐aesthetics and the new tastes of Timor0
The ethics of staying: Social movements and land rights politics in PakistanMubbashir A.Rizvi, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2019. pp. 191. ISBN (cloth): 9781503608092; (paperback): 978150360870
Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes0
Animal activism on and off screen By ClaireParkinson and LaraHerring (eds.), Gadigal Country, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2024. pp. vii + 362, appendix, contributors, index. ISBN: 97817433297570
On resistingplus ça changein the anthropology of religion0
Autoethnography and ‘chimeric‐thinking’: A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity0
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Yuupurnju: A warlpiri song cycle By Henry Cooke AndersonJakamarra, Jerry PatrickJangala, Steven DixonJapanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu‐KurlpurlurnuJampijinpa, CarmelO'Shannessy, and MyfanyTurpin, 0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 20220
Structures of care and credibility: Emotional abuse, institutional blind spots, and the gendered recognition of care0
Articulating Aboriginality in multicultural Redfern0
Homand Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands0
Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England0
The last language on earth: Linguistic utopianism in the PhilippinesBy PiersKelly. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. xxxi + 291. (pbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐750992‐0, USD $39.950
Filming jilba: Sensing beyond the exclusionary fictions of climate science0
Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity0
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The transnational village in Timor‐Leste0
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. NicholasBaintonDebraMcDougallKalissaAlexeyeffJohnCox, eds. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, notes, figures, bibliog. A$80.00 (pb.), <0
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