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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker5
Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor‐Leste4
Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you4
The place of dreams in In the Shadow of the Palms3
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 + 2123
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
Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility3
Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread3
Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act3
Obituary for Bruce Rigsby2
Shifting states of love and intimacy2
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
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‘We are the ones who know the intimacies of the soil’: Grazier claims to belonging and changing land relations in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland2
Description, difference and history, in Melanesia, for example2
Editorial2
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
S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice2
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Love Across Class By RoseButler and EveVincent. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024. pp. xxx [2], 2–226. ISBN 9780522880113.2
Wild artefacts at two Australian museums1
Deborah BirdRose. Dreaming ecology: Nomadics and indigenous ecological knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia. DarrellLewisMargaretJolly (Eds.), Canberra: ANU Press. 2024. pp. xvi+337, notes, f1
Human–buffalo conflicts and intimacies in ‘modernising’ Nepal1
The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology1
Anthropology and change over the ‘land rights era’: Towards treaties?1
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the AnthropoceneNayanikaMathur. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 20211
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Erasing trauma – Erasing indigeneity: How the settler colonial state erased Warlpiri trauma in the wake of the police shooting Kumunjayi Walker1
The privilege of being banal: Art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By ElayneOliphant, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 20211
Traffic‐habits and local descent groups: Broadening the scope of ethnographic research into land rights after land claims1
The tradition of indigenous people and the status of internal migrants – The story of exclusion in West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia)1
Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories1
African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust1
What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia)1
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The role of social mechanisms in local ecological knowledge (LEK) for biodiversity conservation in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia1
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics1
An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’1
The rhetoric of the Brazilian far‐right, built in the streets: The case of Rio de Janeiro1
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity0
Editorial0
A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life0
Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia By EmmaKowal (Ed.), Durham, NC: Duke UP. 2023. pp. 264. US$27.95, ISBN: 97814780275390
Small town markets and crowded buses: Later‐generation Australian–Hungarian ‘diaspora backpackers’ narrate their journey to Hungary0
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Online dating profiles, shifting intimacies and the language of love in Papua New Guinea0
Afterword: A reconciled Australia: A vision for change based on continuity0
After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism0
Sentient ecologies: xenophobic imaginaries of landscapesBy Cotofana, Alexandra and HikmetKuran (Eds.), Berghahn: New York. 2023, 276 pages0
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
Autoethnography and ‘chimeric‐thinking’: A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity0
Hope in a time of world‐shattering events and unbearable situations: Policing and an emergent ‘ethics of dwelling’ in Lander Warlpiri country0
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
Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology by Miyarrka Media. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2019. 272 pp (available in open access here: https://phone‐and‐spear.pubpub.org/0
Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology0
Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China0
Economic diversity in contemporary Timor‐Leste By KellySilva, LisaPalmer, TeresaCunha (Eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2023. pp. 326. ISBN: 97890872839570
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
Trial‐and‐error: Securing field access for qualitative research in Vietnam0
Multispecies violence, ontological murk, epistemic resistance: Insights from the West Papuan plantation frontier–A response0
Pragmatic cosmopolitanism in a parochial space: How international‐student returnees (re)negotiate home in Teochew, China0
Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension0
Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions0
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In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 20220
Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga0
Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes0
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Marriage migration from below: The assessing of ‘genuineness’ among binational couples in Australia0
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
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
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Screen as stage0
The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China0
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
Picking our way through modernity0
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
Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh: The politics and anthropology of contested access in large‐scale irrigation modernisation0
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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
‘Playing the tourist card’: Clandestine solidarity in occupied Timor‐Leste0
Yuupurnju: A warlpiri song cycle By Henry Cooke AndersonJakamarra, Jerry PatrickJangala, Steven DixonJapanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu‐KurlpurlurnuJampijinpa, CarmelO'Shannessy, and MyfanyTurpin, 0
Transcontinental polygyny, migration and hegemonic masculinity in Guinea‐Bissau and the Gambia0
Reflections0
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Afterword: Context erasure0
Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism0
Cross‐sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective0
EPILOGUE: Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts0
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
Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap0
From modernity to memes: Reexamining visual culture as a Christian vehicle0
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
Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation0
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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
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
Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor‐Leste0
We just ‘SHAREit’: Smartphones, data and music sharing in urban Papua New Guinea0
Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand0
Cosmopolitan gastro‐aesthetics and the new tastes of Timor0
Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development0
Agreement‐making in the post‐claims era: Continuity and change over 22 years in western Arnhem Land0
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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
‘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
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Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy0
Homand Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands0
Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows0
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Surfing, masculinity and resistance at Cloud 9: Filipino men who surf negotiating tourism spaces and social hierarchies on Siargao Island, Philippines0
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
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
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
The consumption of ritual and the changing values of filial piety in ancestor worship0
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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
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political PartySulayman N.Khalaf St. Andrews Syrian Studies Series. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. Pp. x + 339, maps, charts, photos, bibliog.0
Military policing and labour extraction in the north‐west Kimberley0
Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change0
Beading wáwya: Counting coup on cancer0
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
Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England0
What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community. DalleyCameo. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021, 252pp., 25 b&w illustrations, $120 (HB.), ISBN 978‐1‐78920‐8850
Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier, Translated from the original French by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. By PhilippeDescola, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2024. pp 0
‘Cop chasing’ in Alice Springs: Youth experiences of surveillance in a Central Australian Town0
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Attenuated, transformed and re‐inscribed sacra: Towards an ethnography of traditional land tenure in the Northern Territory now0
REACH: Research as regeneration0
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Fragrant FrontierBy SarahTurner; AnnuskaDerks; Jean‐FrançoisRousseau (Eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press. 2022. xv, 230pp., photos, index, figures, maps, tables. A$ 43. ISBN: 97887769431410
Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination0
FORM: Anthropology as design0
A genealogy of komunitas: Varieties of social formation and their signification in Bandung, Indonesia0
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Come back anytime. Director: JohnDashbach, JD Media Ltd, 2021. 120 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles. Good docs.0
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
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
An introduction in 3 parts: Anthropological perspectives on the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker0
The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations0
Afterword: Reaching more than halfway0
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
Sanan rai wisdom in Atauro's tourism transformation0
Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River: Environmental monitoring, social learning and Care of Place in Sabah, Malaysia0
Power, identity and precarity: Sex workers’ “lived experience” of violence and social injustice in Bangladesh0
Attunement: Form in motion0
The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay0
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
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
On resistingplus ça changein the anthropology of religion0
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Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology0
Introduction: From rupture to repair0
Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements0
Articulating Aboriginality in multicultural Redfern0
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Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)0
Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world0
Frictions around rendering technical: Land disputes over climate change mitigation projects in Suau, Papua New Guinea0
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
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
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Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia0
Tantric religion and social change0
Re‐territorializing the city: Youth and the productive role of reggae music in Vanuatu0
Love, beauty and women who surf: Tourism, transnational relationships and social mobility on Siargao Island, Philippines0
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
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