Publications
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Pacific Island Heritage: Archaeology, Identity & Community (Terra Australis 35)
(2011)
“This volume emerges from a ground-breaking conference held in the Republic of Palau on cultural heritage in the Pacific. It includes bold investigations of the role of cultural heritage in identity-making, and the ways ...
Out of the Ashes
(2003)
History; Timor; East timor
Pacific Islands Regional Integration and Governance
(2005)
Economic policy; Economic integration; Foreign economic relations; Pacific area
Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability
(2006)
Philosophy; History
Phoenix from the Ashes
(2009)
The continued existence of the Russian defence and arms industry (OPK) was called into question following the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Industry experts cited the lack of a domestic market, endemic ...
Our Unswerving Loyalty
(2008)
The story of the Communist Party of Australia has been told in various ways. Until now, however, archival collections that have borne on this story have been relatively inaccessible to the ordinary, interested reader. This ...
The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
(2007)
This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment ...
The Land is a Map
(2009)
The entire Australian continent was once covered with networks of Indigenous placenames. These names often evoke important information about features of the environment and their place in Indigenous systems of knowledge. ...
Law's Anthropology
(2011)
Anthropologists have been appearing as key expert witnesses in native title claims for over 20 years. Until now, however, there has been no theoretically-informed, detailed investigation of how the expert testimony of ...
Land and Life in Timor-Leste
(2011)
Following the historic 1999 popular referendum, East Timor emerged as the first independent sovereign nation of the 21st Century. The years since these momentous events have seen an efflorescence of social research across ...
Lihir Destiny
(2010)
The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the ‘Lihir Destiny’. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the ...
Lithics in the land of the lightning brothers
(2007)
Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and association-to reveal the major outlines ...
Man Bac: The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam
(2011)
The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. ...
Lak Chang: A reconstruction of Tai identity in Daikong
(2008)
The Thai—Yunnan Project is proud to present this English-language version of Professor Yos Santasombat’s fascinating ethnography of the Tai in Daikong, southwestern China. It represents a significant contribution to the ...
Making Sense of the Census
(2004)
Enumeration; Census; Methodology; Population; Statistics; Aboriginal australians; Australia
Public Sector Employment in the 21st Century
(2007)
This book addresses the transformations which have occurred in employment arrangements and practices in the Australian public sector over the past decade and the changes in responsibilities and accountability through ...
Reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta Village
(2007)
This study examines the religious life of reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta village. The foci of this discussion are on Muslim villagers’ construction, with the help of the reformist paradigm, of the image of the ‘good ...
Public Policy: Why ethics matters
(2010)
Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, ...
Public Leadership: Perspectives and practices
(2008)
‘Leadership’ is routinely admired, vilified, ridiculed, invoked, trivialised, explained and speculated about in the media and in everyday conversation. Despite all this talk, there is surprisingly little consensus about ...
Precedence: Social Differentiation in the Austronesian World
(2009)
This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers that comprise this volume examine the concept of precedence as a form of local discourse and as a mechanism for ordering ...
Political Parties in the Pacific Islands
(2008)
While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of ...
Power and Pork
(2006)
Politics and government; Economic policy; Japan
Rituals of Islamic Spirituality
(2010)
This study examines the emergence of new forms of Islamic spirituality in Indonesia identified as Majlis Dhikr. These Majlis Dhikr groups have proliferated on Java in the last two decades, both in urban and rural areas, ...
Power, Culture, Economy (CAEPR 30)
(2009)
Research over the past decade in health, employment, life expectancy, child mortality, and household income has confirmed that Indigenous Australians are still Australia’s most disadvantaged group. Those residing in ...
Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
(2007)
Since its publication in 1985, Peter Bellwood’s Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago has been hailed as the sole authoritative work on the subject by the leading expert in the field. Now that work has been fully ...
Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny
(2012)
This book offers a new approach to the extraordinary story of Timor-Leste. The Indonesian invasion of the former Portuguese colony in 1975 was widely considered to have permanently crushed the Timorese independence movement. ...
Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence
(2009)
This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European ...
Oceanic Explorations (TA26)
(2007)
Lapita comprises an archaeological horizon that is fundamental to the understanding of human colonisation and settlement of the Pacific as it is associated with the arrival of the common ancestors of the Polynesians and ...
Nature, Nurture and Chance
(2006)
Microbiologists; Virologists; Educators; Geographers; Biography; Australia
New Directions in Archaeological Science (TA28)
(2009)
Archaeological Science meetings will have a personality of their own depending on the focus of the host archaeological fraternity itself. The 8th Australasian Archaeometry meeting follows this pattern but underlying the ...
Negotiating the Sacred
(2006)
Religion; Sociology; Blasphemy; Sacrilege; Offenses against religion
Negotiating the Sacred II
(2008)
Blasphemy and other forms of blatant disrespect to religious beliefs have the capacity to create significant civil and even international unrest. Consequently, the sacrosanctity of religious dogmas and beliefs, stringent ...
NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery
(2006)
Non governmental organizations; Women; History; Papua new guinea
A Passion for Policy
(2007)
This collection of papers is concerned with issues of policy development, practice, implementation and performance. It represents a range of views about diverse subjects by individuals who are, for the most part, in the ...
Numinous Subjects
(2007)
Part religious studies, part feminist theory, part philosophy, part indescribable: such is Numinous Subjects. Described by the author as ‘a kaleidoscopic exploration of why three gendered figures of the sacred matter within ...
Informative Psychometric Filters
(2006)
Psychometrics; Psychological tests; Human being; Case study; Classification; Reliability
Information Systems II: theory, representation and reality
(2007)
This volume contains the papers presented at the third biennial Information Systems Foundations (‘Theory, Representation and Reality’) Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 27-28 September ...
Inside Austronesian Houses
(2006)
Dwellings; Social life; Customs; Southeast asia; Oceania
The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme
(2004)
Community development; Employment; Government policy; Aboriginal australians; Australia
In the Service of the Company Volume II
(2003)
Australian agricultural company; Correspondence; Pioneers; History