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Racial microaggressions and interculturality in remote Central Australian Aboriginal healthcare
BackgroundAn epidemic of type 2 diabetes in remote Aboriginal people in Central Australia, contributes to high rates of morbidity and mortality....
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Members’ experiences and perceptions of participating in an Australian Regional One Health Network
BackgroundThe One Health framework is intended to optimise the interdependent health of humans, animals and ecosystems. It relies on effective...
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Confronting Whiteness in Developmental Psychology: Impacts on Ethnic Minority Families in the Australian Child Welfare System
This chapter explores the dominance of Western theories of child development and its impact on child welfare practices for ethnic minority families...
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High-Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains: 25 Years of Explorations and Disseminations
This chapter summarizes the content of Constanza Ceruti’s books on the anthropology of sacred mountains, which are dedicated to the peaks of the...
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Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens
Reproductive justice (RJ) calls for an integrated analysis, a holistic vision, and comprehensive strategies that push against structural conditions...
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Moderating Effects of Socio-Demographic Factors in Associations Between Acculturation and Dietary and Physical Activity Behaviours: a Study of Australian Residents Born in Sub-Saharan Africa
Several studies have demonstrated that acculturation shapes post-migration dietary and physical activity behaviours, but the additional effect of...
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“Half a flood’s no good”: flooding, viticulture, and hydrosocial terroir in a South Australian wine region
Floods generate both risks and benefits. In Langhorne Creek, South Australia, a historically-embedded system of shared floodwater management exists...
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Space and Place: Cultural Heritage and Colonial Commemoration at Australian Tertiary Institutions
Tertiary institutions around the world form parts of national identities. As centres of learning, education and research, these institutions produce...
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Anthropology and Theology: Notes on Gender, Migration and Mystics
This chapter is an intervention in an ongoing debate between theology and socio-cultural anthropology and it takes as a starting point the relation...
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Legal Pluralism Past and Present: Magna Carta and a First Nations’ Voice in the Australian Constitution
This chapter uses legal pluralism as a means of conceptualising the possibilities of constitutional recognition of indigenous rights in Australia...
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Before and After Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British Social Anthropology, and the Relationship Between Field Research, Ethnography, and Theory
In Radcliffe-Brown’s theoretical program of social anthropology as a “natural science of society” the ethnographical method was seen as a fundamental...
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On the Commonness of Skin: An Anthropology of Being in a More Than Human World
The point of departure of multispecies ethnography is that animals are good to be with, a proposal that seeks to destabilize human primacy and reveal...
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On the Commonness of Skin: An Anthropology of Being in a More Than Human World
The point of departure of multispecies ethnography is that animals are good to be with, a proposal that seeks to destabilize human primacy and reveal...
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Reflexive language attitudes and language practices among school-aged Chinese Australian immigrant bilinguals
This study examines the reflexivity of immigrant children in forming their language attitudes (LAs). Considering the special cultural environment of...
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Jewish Antifascism, Australian Cultural Nationalism, and Settler Colonialism
‘A Nazi Writes Home’ by ‘L.F.’ was published in Unity in July 1951. It was a fictional letter of furious irony from ‘Fritz’, a Nazi in Australia, to...
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Who is Teaching Who What? Chinese as a Foreign Language Teaching in Australian Schools
This chapter surveys the historical and current state of uptake of Chinese as a Foreign LanguageChinese as a Foreign Language (CFLCFL) in Australian...
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The “Continuous Line from the Formulations of the Magicians to the Formulations of the Sociologists”. Otto Neurath on the Anthropology of Magic and Religion
The present text deals with Neurath’s quest for a non-metaphysical sociology of magic and religion and takes into account a broader spectrum of...
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Mediumship and Evidence in Australian Spiritualism: Conjunctions of Private and Public
In the religion known as modern Spiritualism, mediums publicly describe private details of death. Mediums describe to audience members what their...