Publications
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Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land
(2006)
Ethnology; Southeast asia; Oceania
Passage of Change
(2010)
Numerous issues face Pacific states trying to find their way in the early 21st century. Countries are striving to secure the benefits of modernisation. Governance, law and order are needed to reach such a goal, but development ...
Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times
(2010)
This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited ...
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 ...
Pacific Regional Order
(2005)
National security; Economic aspects; Economic policy; Economic integration; Foreign relations; Pacific area
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 ...
Taking the High Ground: The archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia (Terra Australis 37)
(2012)
This volume brings the remote and little known island of Rapa firmly to the forefront of Polynesian archaeology. Thirteen authors contribute 14 chapters, covering not only the basic archaeology of coastal sites, rock ...
Power and Pork
(2006)
Politics and government; Economic policy; Japan
Signs of Wali: Narratives at the Sacred Sites in Pamijahan, West Java
(2008)
In Signs of the Wali, Dr Tommy Christomy focuses on the one of the early founders of Islam on Java, Shakyh Abdul Muhyi, whose burial site at Pamijahan in Tasikmalaya is a place of contemporary ziarah. This study initially ...
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 ...