Anthropology

Richard Chenhall

James Rose

Anne Decobert

An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan

Hannah Gould, Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Journal article  |  2019  |  Anthropological Quarterly

Sensory anthropology has quickly become a dynamic and expansive field of contemporary scholarship, with ethnographers increasingly..

The anthropology of climate change: An integrated critical perspective

H Baer, M Singer

Book  |  2014

In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of cl..

Anthropological realism in a scientistic age

M Herzfeld

Journal article  |  2018  |  Anthropological Theory

Anthropology is a realist discipline. In this article, I draw a sharp distinction between realism and scientism, or objectivism, a..

Improving Professional Research Standards for Forensic Social Anthropology in Australia

Imagining the Asian Child: Towards an Anthropology of New Asian Childhoods

This innovative study will be of both popular and scholarly interest. The future of childhoods is a key concern in Australia and globally, w..

Melbourne in the South Seas: Temporal Shifts and Cultural Encounters, 1870 to 2020.

The unexpected gift of bones

John Clement, Rita Hardiman

The most durable bone in the body is the mid-shaft of the femur, or thighbone. In nature, when bodies are left unburied, the elements event..

The something in nothing

Craig Jeffrey

Can something come out of nothing? Last month a German University announced grants for students to do nothing. Hamburg Arts College is offe..

Island encounters

Lisa Palmer

The first time I visited the island of Timor, I was there for an hour. The passenger ferry I was travelling on through the eastern Indonesi..