Oceania

Papers
(The TQCC of Oceania is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Correction to “Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships”12
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Ian Dunlop and the Yirrkala Film Project4
Water Lore: Practice, Place, Poetics. By CamilleRoulière & ClaudiaEgerer. London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Earthscan from Routledge. 2022. Pp: xxi + 261. Price: A$75.99.4
Critique, Vision and Cosmology: Millenarian Ideas in Melanesia3
The Terminologies of the Papuan Tip Cluster of Languages in Comparative Austronesian Perspective3
Anarchy and the Art of Listening. By JamesSlotta. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell University Press. 2023. Pp: xii + 201. Price: US$31.95.3
The Wind Is Always Blowing: Generative Crosscurrents of Ethnographic Dialogue in Australia3
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The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu. Directed by Wong‐KaluHinaleimoana, HamerDean and WilsonJoe. Honolulu, HI, USA: Kanaka Pakipika in Association with Pacific Islanders in Communications. 2022. 56 minutes2
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Gardens of Gold: Place‐Making in Papua New Guinea. By Jamon AlexHalvaksz. Seattle, NJ: University of Washington Press. 2020. Pp: xv + 226. Price: US$ 30.002
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Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru. By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY, US and London, UK: Cornell University Press. 2023. Pp: 318. Price: A$67.951
Evidence from and on Country: A Comment on Paul Burke's ‘From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors?’1
Farmers or Hunter‐Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate. By PeterSutton & KerynWalshe. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2021.Pp: 288. Price: US$ 34.991
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Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia. By Sarah E.Holcombe. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2018. Pp: 384. Price: A$301
Kula Is a Meshwork1
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‘A Filmmaker Fond of Anthropology’: Ian Dunlop (1927–2021)1
Achievement, Ascription, andMana: A Step beyond Binary Opposition in Studying Leadership in Oceania1
From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors? Post‐Classical Indigenous Beliefs about Human Ancestral Spirits and Human Ancestral Remains1
‘Becoming Stronger’: Christianity, Indigenous Politics of Self‐Determination, and Endogenous Transformation in West Papua1
Introduction to Special Issue ‘Rethinking Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea’1
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We Stay the Same: Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea. By Jason SteadmanRoberts. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. 2024. Pp: xiii +248. Price: US$65.001
Obituary for Jeremy Long1
Fire on the Island: Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu. By TomBratrud. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2022. Pp: xxii + 213. Price: US$1351
Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania. By MatthewLauer. Los Angeles, CA, USA: University of California. 2023. Pp: 292. Price: US$85.001
Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle. Sung by Henry Cooke Anderson Jakamarra. With Transcription and Interpretation by Jerry Patrick Jangala, Steven Dixon Japanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick0
Kamapim gutpela man: Papua New Guinean and Chinese refinery workers' changing understandings of becoming a good man0
The Wet: Shifting Seasons, Climate Change and Natural Cycles in Cape York Peninsula, Queensland0
Review Essay on Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls. An Essay on the Yagwoia Womba Complex. By Jadran Mimica. Chicago: Hau Books. 2020. p. xvii + 160, Price: US$17.960
Suspicion and Overlapping Orders of Precedence: Imagining Secret History in Founder‐Focused Societies of Eastern Indonesia0
Making Fun of Animals: Ontological Implications of Rituals and Taboos Observed in Geographically and Linguistically Discontinuous Regions of Southeast Asia and Southwestern China0
On Behalf of the Living. Directed by Ton Otto, Christian Suhr, and Gary Kildea. Denmark: Moesgaard Film, 2023, 105 minutes, in Tok Pisin, Dutch, Danish, and English, with English subtitl0
Balgo. Creating Country. By JohnCarty. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing. 2021. Pp: ix + 395. Price: A$ 89.990
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2021 Conference Distinguished Lecture: Contemporary Filmmaking in Oceania0
Tribute: Friedegard Elsbeth Tomasetti, 1937–20200
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands: Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement. By: AidanCraney, Canberra: ANU Press. 2022. pp. xiv + 236. Price: Free Download.0
‘Old People’ and their Totemic Disposition: A Comment on Paul Burke's ‘From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors?’0
Gender Equality Theology and Essentialism: Catholic Responses to Gender‐Based Violence and Inequality in Papua New Guinea0
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Border History from a Borneo Longhouse. The Search for a Life that Is Very Good. By ValerieMashman. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam University Press. 2024. Pp: 274. Price: €122.00.0
France and Oceanian Sovereignties0
Alice Duncan‐Kemp's ‘Warrior Lodges’ and Kooroongoora: Structures of Resistance During Australia's Frontier Wars0
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Water as Country on the Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia0
The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands By: PierreMaranda, James TuitaDede and BenBurt. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 2022 pp: 112 Price: £235.400
The Larrakia Kinship Terminology: Asymmetrical Cross‐Cousin Marriage and Omaha Skewing0
Letter to the Editor0
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Erratum0
Gridiron Capital. How American Football Became a Samoan Game. By LisaUperesa. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press. 2022. Pp: xviii+218. Price: A$102.95.0
The Wagiman Landscape: Mental Maps and Prototypes0
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Water's Ethical Time: The Art of Deindustrialising Human‐Water Relationships0
Afterword: Kinship Possibilities in Water Futures0
Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia (PNG)0
Continuity and Revelation in Contemporary Indigenous Australia: A Comment on Paul Burke’s ‘From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors?’0
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Decolonisation beyond Independence: Reflections from the Papua New Guinea Experience — An Afterword0
Coercive Exchange: Magic, Agency and the Gift in a Melanesian Society0
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‘Why can't we speak up for ourselves…?’ Water Futures and Ethnographic Provocations0
See How We Roll: Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia. By MelindaHinkson.Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2021. Pp: vii + 240. Price: USD 25.95.0
Kurangara in Queensland?: A Critique of Duncan‐Kemp's Account0
Honiara: Village‐City of Solomon Islands. By CliveMoore. Canberra: ANU Press. 2022. Pp: xxx + 547. Price: Free Download0
Response to Letter to the Editor by Sally Babidge0
Challenging Postclassical Beliefs: A Comment on Paul Burke's ‘From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors?’0
Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis, By VeronicaStrang. London, UK: Reaktion Books. 2023., Pp: 280. Price: £30.00.0
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Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia. By Emma Kowal. Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press. 2023. Pp: xv + 248. Price: US$27.95 and 104.95.0
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Intra‐Action in a Central Australian Community Development Project0
Misty Bodies of Water and Artistic Relationality in the Hydrocene0
Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project. By Emilia E.Skrzypek.New York: Berghahn. 2021. Pp. xiv + 237. Price: US$1350
Defying Predictions: Global Bureaucracy and the Art of not Making Guesses about Papua New Guinea0
Gaynor Macdonald (1948–2022)0
Questions of Continuity and Change: A Comment on Paul Burke's ‘From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors?’0
A Research Note on Austronesian Relationship Terminologies With and Without Relative Age Categories0
Linguistic Organisation and Native Title: The Wik Case, Australia. By PeterSutton and KenHale. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. 2021. Pp. xviii + 487. Price: A$83.00 or Free Download.0
If the Yagwoia were the Gimi…: A Reply to Gillison's Critical Appraisal of ‘Stalked by the Malignant Spirit…’0
‘From Dreaming Ancestors to Human Ancestors?’: A Response to Martin, Merlan, Morphy, Morton, and Peterson0
‘Wallis and Futuna Have Never Been a Colony’: A Non‐sovereign Island Territory Negotiating Primary Education with Metropolitan France0
‘Never a Colony’?: Rethinking the Colonisation of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea0
Ethnographer and Contrarian: Biographical and Anthropological Essays in Honour of Peter Sutton. By Julie D.Finlayson and FrancesMorphy [eds]. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. 2020.  Pp: 3000
Making Waves: The Role of Indigenous Water Beings in Debates about Human and Non‐Human Rights0
‘Stalked by the Malignant Father's Spirit: A Case of Patricide among the Yagwoia (PNG)’ by Jadran Mimica0
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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History. By RyōtaNishino. London, UK: Bloomsbury. 2022. Pp: xvi + 248. Price: USD$120.000
In the Shadow of the Palms: More‐Than‐Human Becomings in West Papua. By SophieChao. Durham, NC, USA and London, UK: Duke University Press. 2022. Pp: x + 336. Price: US$28.95.0
Yinbarnini Ngukunginyi (Singing of Water)0
‘Menjadi Manusia’ (Becoming Somebody): The Aspirations and Realities of Marind Young People, Papua, Indonesia0
Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society. The Kwoma in a Cross‐Cultural Perspective. By Ross Bowden. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books. 2022. Pp.: xi +143. Price: US$95.00.0
Aboriginal Screen‐Printed Textiles from Australia's Top End. Edited by JoannaBarrkman. Los Angeles, CA, US: Fowler Museum at UCLA. 2021. Pp: 334, including 257 colour illustrations and 2 ma0
From Colonial Order to Decolonial Future: Colonial Mimesis and Identity among the Papua Besena Movement0
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Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia0
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Sovereignty and Coloniality in the French‐Speaking Pacific: A Reflection on the Case of New Caledonia, 1980–20210
Phone & Spear: A Yuṯa Anthropology. By Miyarrka Media (Paul Gurrumuruwuy, Jennifer Deger, Enid Guruŋulmiwuy, Warren Balpatji, Meredith Balanydjarrk, James Ganambarr, Kayleen Djingadjingawuy)0
The Years of Terror: Banbu‐Deen: Kulin and Colonists at Port Phillip 1835‐1851. By Marguerita Stephens and Fay Stewart‐Muir. North Melbourne, AU: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2023. P0
Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy0
Justice and Warfare in Aboriginal Australia. By ChristopheDarmangeat, Lanham, MD, US: Lexington Books. 2020. Pp: 290. Price: Hardback US$123.00, eBook US$45.00.0
On the Backside of a Wave: An Obituary for a Star – Marshall Sahlins (December 27, 1930–April 5, 2021)0
The Riches of Long‐Term Community‐Engaged Documentary Research: The Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary as a Legacy Cultural Resource0
Ancestral Presence. Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands. By EricHirsch. London, UK and New York, NY, USA: Routledge. 2021. Pp: ix + 238. Price: £38.99 (paperback), £130.00 (har0
Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs. Juju‐ngaliyarlu karnalu‐jana pina‐pina‐mani kurdu‐warnu‐patu jujuku. By Georgia Curran, Linda Barwick, Valerie Napaljarri Martin, Simon J0
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Notes on Sovereignty in Vanuatu0
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Frontier Narratives That Take on Flesh: Tracing Legacy, Labour, and Legitimacy in Outback Queensland, Australia0
My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire. By SiobhanMcDonnell. Honolulu, HI, USA: University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2023. pp: xiv + 240. Price: US$68.00.0
Kes (Passageway): Cross‐Cultural Considerations of Island Field Containment in the Torres Strait0
The religious self‐alteration of Shem Irofa'alu during the anti‐colonial Maasina Rule in Solomon Islands (1944–1953)0
Sustainable Water in Mining? The Importance of Traditional Owner Involvement in Commercial Water Use and Management in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia0
Quilting Power:Mana,UNESCOand Spiritual Sovereignty in the Marquesas Islands0
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea. By DonKulick. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. 2019. Pp: 273. Price: US$26.950
‘Life Will Be Very Different after the War’: Administrative, Political and Academic Tensions in the Development of Papua New Guinea after the Second World War0
Variation in Australian Sibling Terminologies0
Vale, Basil Sansom: A (Second) Critical Appreciation0
Water Futures in Australia: Materialities, Temporalities, Imaginaries0
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LSMPA Sovereignties in New Caledonia and French Polynesia: Territorialities, Alliances and Powers in Oceania0
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Activating the Vā: Performance, Academia and the Sublime — Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) 2023 Distinguished Lecture0
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania 2022 Conference Distinguished Lecture: Social Movement Sightseeing in Melanesia and Beyond0
Moro and the Weather Coast: A Revitalization Movement in the Solomon Islands. By Gülbün ÇokerO'Connor. Durham, NC, USA: Carolina Academic Press. 2022. Pp: 203. Price: US$44.000
Sama Bajo Resilience in the Time of COVID0
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How They Fought. Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia's Frontier Wars. By RayKerkhove. Tingalpa, AU: Boolarong Press. 2023. Pp: x + 420. Price: A$39.990
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