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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musharbash, Yasmine.

Contributor:

Musharbash, Yasmine, editor.

Barber, Marcus, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peterson, Nicolas.

Archaeologists--Australia.

Archaeologists.

Anthropology--Australia.

Anthropology.

Festschriften--Australia.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his exemplary mentorship of generations of younger scholars and his generosity in facilitating the progress of others. The diverse collection produced by former students, current colleagues and long-term peers provides reflections on his legacy as well as fresh anthropological insights from Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. Inspired by Nicolas Peterson's work in Aboriginal Australia and his broad ranging contributions to anthropology over several decades, the contributors to this volume celebrate the variety of his ethnographic interests. Individual chapters address, revisit, expand on, and ethnographically re-examine his work about ritual, material culture, the moral domestic economy, land and ecology. The volume also pays homage to Nicolas Peterson's ability to provide focused research with long-term impact, exemplified by a series of papers engaging with his work on demand sharing and the applied policy domain

Contents:

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

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9781921666971

1921666978

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459098