Publications
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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