Publications
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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 ...
Sounds in translation
(2009)
Sounds in Translation: Intersections of music, technology and society joins a growing number of publications taking up R. Murray Schafer’s challenge to examine and to re-focus attention on the sound dimensions of our human ...
Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance
(2004)
Government policy; Social conditions; Aboriginal australians
TA31: The Early Prehistory of Fiji
(2009)
I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors’ introductory and concluding chapters. These ...
Chalo Jahaji: On a journey through indenture in Fiji
(2012)
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the ...
Telling Pacific Lives: Prisms of Process
(2008)
How are Pacific lives imagined, written and read? How are they refracted through prisms of process? From legends about culture heroes to biographies of national leaders, from tales of ancestors to stories of contemporary ...
State and Society in Papua New Guinea
(2004)
Politics and government; Social conditions; Papua new guinea
The Turning Point in China's Economic Development
(2006)
Economic policy; Economic conditions; Industrialization; China
Struggling for Self-Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s
(2008)
Military force projection is the self-reliant capacity to strike from mainland ports, bases and airfields to protect Australia’s sovereignty as well as more distant national interests. Force projection is not just a flex ...
Steep Slopes
(2010)
The Duna live in a physical environment of steep slopes that are sometimes difficult to traverse. A stick of bamboo used as a prop goes a long way in assisting a struggling traveller. Similarly, the Duna live in a social ...