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Item Metadata only A Cultural Revival and the Custom of Christianity in Papua New Guinea(Palgrave MacMillan, 2007) Dundon, A.; Robinson, K.Item Metadata only "A Disappearing" or a resilient Ganga? Climate change perspectives from the Himalaya(CRC Press, 2018) Drew, G.; Narain, V.; Barua, A.; Vij, S.Climate change in this book is seen not only as an environmental problem but as a societal challenge too and as such discusses the governance issues from an interdisciplinary approach and across different scales: local, state, and national.Item Restricted A female Tibetan Buddhist diviner in Darjeeling(John Wiley & Sons, 2014) Zivkovic, T.; Lewis, T.Abstract not availableItem Metadata only A lake in time: histories of Paruku(CSIRO Publishing, 2013) Mahood, K.; Carty, J.; Morton, M.; Martin, M.; Mahood, K.; Carty, J.Abstract not availableItem Restricted A new subhaplogroup of native American Y-Chromosomes from the Andes(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) Jota, M.; Lacerda, D.; Sandoval, J.; Vieira, P.; Santos-Lopes, S.; Bisso-Machado, R.; Paixão-Cortes, V.; Revollo, S.; Paz-Y-Miño, C.; Fujita, R.; Salzano, F.; Bonatto, S.; Bortolini, M.; Santos, F.The human Y chromosome contains highly informative markers for making historical inferences about the pre-Columbian peopling of Americas. However, the scarcity of these markers has limited its use in the inference of shared ancestry and past migrations relevant to the origin of the culturally and biologically diverse Native Americans. To identify new single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and increase the phylogenetic resolution of the major haplogroup Q found in the Americas, we have performed a search for new polymorphisms based on sequencing divergent Y chromosomes identified by microsatellite haplotype analysis. Using this approach, a new Y-SNP (SA01) has been identified in the Andean populations of South America, allowing for the detection of a new sublineage of Q1a3a. This sublineage displays a less complex phylogeographic network of associated microsatellites and more restricted geographic occurrence, and is given the designation Q1a3a4. This result indicates that our approach can be successfully used to identify sublineages of interest in a specific region that allow the investigation of particular histories of human populations.Item Metadata only A participatory systemic approach to rural community development in Vietnam(International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research, 2016) Ha, T.; Bosch, O.; Nguyen, N.Various failures of the traditional approach in community development in developing countries have led to the development of a more appropriate and holistic approach to address complex development issues. Systems approaches and cutting-edge tools have recently been embraced to deal with such complexities under contexts of interwoven relationships amongst social, economic, political, cultural and environmental factors. This paper provides reflections on practical value of the Evolutionary Learning Laboratory (ELLab) through a case study on improving the quality of life for women farmers in northern Vietnam, where gender-bias labour hardship and poor living-standard are evident. The first five steps of the participatory systems-based ELLab were implemented during 2013-2014 providing valuable results that have made both practical and theoretical contributions with substantial implications to community development. Our study finds that the context-based results reshaped the original project goal. The approach and framework helped to identify and engage right stakeholders in problem analyses and decision making activities. Fuzzy problems within the complex web of life of the women and rural households were uncovered using relevant systems tools to develop a big picture (systems model) of the current situation, defining levers for systemic interventions. The ELLab helps to build capacity of local people for taking ownership of the process and outcomes to guarantee sustainability and long-term impacts. It also facilitates true participation and co-learning amongst stakeholders, triggering transformative learning. Contributions to action research and an innovative mechanism for sharing reflections and lessons at both local and global levels via the online Think2ImpactTM are discussed.Item Metadata only A preliminary outline of Antikirrinya bird classification: a comparative approach(Anthropological Society of Oxford, 2017) Naessan, P.Abstract not availableItem Metadata only A retreating goddess? Conflicting perceptions of ecological change near the Gangotri-Gaumukh Glacier(Equinox Publishing, 2012) Drew, G.The Gangotri-Gaumukh glacier is a significant body of ice in the Indian Himalayas whose loss could cause ecological turmoil, the disruption of livelihoods, and possibly even threaten the continuity of cultural-religious practices intertwined with the sacred Ganga River into which its runoff flows. Although there is reason to fear for the Ganga's longevity, the issue of its potential decline is layered with ambiguity, uncertainty, and debate. In this article, I present the science-based discourse on glacial melt, which continues to evolve, along with ethnographically documented perspectives on retreating glaciers and other ecological transformations. I demonstrate how faith in the enduring nature of the Goddess Ganga impacts interpretations of environmental change, regardless of the climate change science, and how ideas about the river's impermanence in Hindu texts can sometimes deter conservation efforts. In doing so I offer a variety of views that enlarge discussions about the causes for and the range of responses to climatic change.Item Metadata only A rural sense of place: intimate experience in planning a countryside for life(Routledge, 2003) Gray, J.Comments on author Richard Wakeford's article 'Planning a Countryside for Life.' Planning process for a sustainable countryside; Parallel predicament of rurality; Social representation of the rural; Distinctive type of geo-spacial space; Nature of the rural as an object of scientific knowledge.Item Metadata only A Sense of Place, A Place of Senses: Land and a Landscape in the West of Ireland(Univ New Mexico, 2005) Peace, A.One of the analytic points made about “contested spaces” is that they can bring to the fore the tacit cultural understandings and unexamined ideological frameworks which, precisely by virtue of their being tacit and unexamined, are integral to the routine flow of everyday life. This paper amplifies the proposition ethnographically by selectively examining an extended conflict over the Irish state’s intention to build an interpretive center at Mullaghmore, a mountain in the west of Ireland. It is argued that at one level local people were at odds over whether the mountain was land or a landscape, whilst at another level they were divided over appropriate ways of living in this peripheral setting in the final decade of the twentieth century. It was only in the process of contesting Mullaghmore as space, however, that these cultural differences and ideological divisions became explicit and open to public critique.Item Metadata only A.B.Original, Reclaim Australia(Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) Hutchings, S.; Rodger, D.L.; Stratton, J.; Dale, J.; Mitchell, T.Item Metadata only Aboriginal Australia, 1788-the present: Dreamings and nightmares(University of Queensland, 1994) Sackett, L.; School of Social Sciences : AnthropologyItem Metadata only Aboriginal country groups and 'the Community of Native Title Holders'(Research Unit, National Native Title Tribunal, 2001) Sutton, Peter John; School of Social Sciences : AnthropologyItem Metadata only Aboriginal engagement in the northern South Australian opal industry c. 1940-1980(Labour History Society (South Australia), 2018) Harding, M.Item Metadata only Aboriginal Engagement in the Northern South Australian Opal Industry, c 1940-1980(Historical Society of South Australia, 2017) Harding, M.This article examines the role of Aboriginal people in the northern South Australian opal industry, in particular the Andamooka and Coober Pedy fields, from 1940 to 1980, and the distinctive nature of their participation. It explores an aspect of Aboriginal engagement in the economy that has not been examined in a scholarly way, making considerable use of oral testimony. It also highlights the agency of Aboriginal people who participated in the industry while also maintaining cultural continuity in an era when the official government policy of 'assimilation' was in full swing. The small scale and informal nature of the opal industry attracted Aboriginal people because of the level of workplace autonomy it provided and its capacity to accommodate important economic, social and cultural practices. Aboriginal people participated in a 'hybrid economy', consisting of the market, public and traditional customary spheres, and were able to participate actively in the South Australian opal industry in a variety of meaningful and skilled occupations, often in trying conditions that required patience and determination. At the same time, Aboriginal opal miners vigorously maintained important aspects of their traditional economic, social and cultural lives, which the industry readily accommodated. The opal industry provided many Aboriginal people with a regular source of income for many years, but by the 1970s, their engagement began to dwindle. A number of factors contributed to this, including declining levels of opal production, new technology driven by increasing fuel prices and the extension of unemployment benefits to Aboriginal people in remote areas.Item Metadata only Aboriginal languages(Wakefield Press, 2001) Amery, R.; Prest, W.; Round, K.; Fort, C.Item Metadata only About face: Relationalities of ageing and dying in Chinese migrant families(Elsevier, 2021) Zivkovic, T.M.Advance care planning is premised on concepts of individual autonomy and self-determination. The standardisation of this individualist approach to decision-making erases the diverse cultural sensibilities and vocabularies that shape trajectories of care. In attempting to redress this exclusion, this paper foregrounds previously overlooked vernaculars and practices for understanding how care for the aged and those approaching the end of life is understood and enacted in Australia’s culturally diverse society. Drawing on ethnographic interviews and participant-observation with ageing Chinese migrants and their families in Adelaide, South Australia, it examines the multiple enactments of ‘face’ in end-of-life care. In so doing, the paper extends Goffman’s theorisation of ‘face’, opening up the ‘front’ of the bounded individual to reveal how persons are mutually implicated in relational contexts. Attending to cultural contours of face and their intersections with filial piety, this paper unsettles the imperative of self-determination in advance care planning and reveals how intergenerational shifts from older to younger generations can reorient care at the end of life.Item Metadata only Acts of last resort: asylum, whistleblowing and the anthropology of secrecy(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018) Reid, A.; Skuse, A.J.Anthropologists face fresh challenges as they endeavour to conduct research in an increasingly securitised and secretive world. Those who wield asymmetrical power in society often seek to guard information and knowledge. Therefore, it is imperative that anthropologists seek new ways of navigating the politics of secrecy if they are to reveal anything of its inner workings. In pursuit of this imperative, this paper examines practices of whistleblowing and posits secrecy as a dialectic that is characterised by processes and practices that work towards concealment, as well as revelation. In shifting the analytical focus from that which is concealed to what is revealed in acts such as whistleblowing, we contend that anthropologists may elucidate something about secrecy that is revealing of context-specific forms of agency and power. In doing so, analysis draws upon Australia’s secretive immigration and border protection regime and in particular a recent government inquiry that enabled whistleblowers to reveal details of secrets that had previously been closely held.Item Metadata only Aesthetics(Routledge, 1996) Weiner, J.; School of Social Sciences : AnthropologyItem Metadata only Aesthetics is a Cross-Cultural Category(Routledge, 1996) Weiner, J.; School of Social Sciences : Anthropology