Australian Journal of Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Australian Journal of Anthropology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker5
Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you5
Hedgehogs, killing, and kindness: The contradictions of care in conservation practice By LauraMcLauchlan, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. ix + 259, notes, references, ind4
Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor‐Leste3
Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act3
The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty3
Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility3
Bornéo à coeur: Hommage à Bernard Sellato, Argonaute de la forêt tropicale . Borneo at heart: A tribute to Bernard Sellato, argonaut of the tropical rainforest3
Forecasts: A story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster By Caroline E.Schuster, illustrated by EnriqueBernardou, DavidBueno (Eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. xvii + 2123
The place of dreams in In the Shadow of the Palms2
Coal's final void: Extracted futures and the everyday making of the climate crisis By KariDahlgren, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2025. pp. xii +124, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 97810327866432
Obituary for Bruce Rigsby2
Description, difference and history, in Melanesia, for example2
Latour's swan songs: Grappling with the ecological crisis By Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schulz. On the emergence of an ecological class: A memo. Translated by Julie Rose, London: Polity Press. 2022. pp.2
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean By Ryan TuckerJones and Matt K.Matsuda (Volume 1); Anne PeretzHattori and JaneSamson (Volume 2) (Eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. Volu2
Hauntology: A tale of two cities2
S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice2
Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread2
The making of style: On the entanglement of algorithms and aesthetics2
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The role of social mechanisms in local ecological knowledge ( LEK ) for biodiversity conservation in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia1
An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’1
Wild artefacts at two Australian museums1
Agreement‐making in the post‐claims era: Continuity and change over 22 years in western Arnhem Land1
Erasing trauma – Erasing indigeneity: How the settler colonial state erased Warlpiri trauma in the wake of the police shooting Kumunjayi Walker1
What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia)1
The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology1
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self–Other Relations across Southeast Asian Languages By Dwi NoverriniDjenar and JackSidnell (Eds), Singapore: NUS Press. 2023. pp. i1
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Performing difference, longing for ‘home’: Claiming ethnic identities to build national unity among urban Solomon Islands youth1
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African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust1
Deborah BirdRose. Dreaming ecology: Nomadics and indigenous ecological knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia. DarrellLewisMargaretJolly (Eds.), Canberra: ANU Press. 2024. pp. xvi+337, notes, f1
The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed‐Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump1
Carceral spectres: Hyperincarceration and the haunting of Aboriginal life1
Obituary for Donald Stanley Gardner (1949–2025)1
The Exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings By SimonYoung and DavideErmacora (Eds.), Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. xii + 274, index (hbk and e1
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The tradition of indigenous people and the status of internal migrants – The story of exclusion in West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia)1
An indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea1
Riding through epics: The cultural anthropology of horseback archery in the Mahabharata1
Love Across Class By RoseButler and EveVincent. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024. pp. xxx [2], 2–226. ISBN 9780522880113.1
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By BenjaminHegarty, Ithaca and London: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press. 2022. pp. xvii + 1791
When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’1
The ethics of staying: Social movements and land rights politics in PakistanMubbashir A.Rizvi, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2019. pp. 191. ISBN (cloth): 9781503608092; (paperback): 978150360871
Traffic‐habits and local descent groups: Broadening the scope of ethnographic research into land rights after land claims1
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics1
Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories1
Anthropology and change over the ‘land rights era’: Towards treaties?1
The privilege of being banal: Art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By ElayneOliphant, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 20211
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the AnthropoceneNayanikaMathur. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 20211
Emergency in transit: Witnessing migration in the colonial present1
The equivocal healthcare market in Bangladesh during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Policy, politics and life1
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Pragmatic cosmopolitanism in a parochial space: How international‐student returnees (re)negotiate home in Teochew, China0
The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China0
Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity0
‘Cop chasing’ in Alice Springs: Youth experiences of surveillance in a Central Australian Town0
Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)0
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. NicholasBaintonDebraMcDougallKalissaAlexeyeffJohnCox, eds. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, notes, figures, bibliog. A$80.00 (pb.), <0
Afterword: Context erasure0
Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism0
The temporality of dwelling in Christian Papua New Guinea0
On resistingplus ça changein the anthropology of religion0
The presence of elephants: Sharing lives and landscapes in Assam By Paul G.Keil, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. viii + 173. ISBN : 978‐1‐003‐40298‐50
FORM: Anthropology as design0
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The transnational village in Timor‐Leste0
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Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik.By RossBowdenCanon Pyon: Sean Kingston, 2022. Pp. x + 232, figures, bibliography, index, appendices. ISBN 0
After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism0
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The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic StateDavidVineBerkeley: University of California Press, 2020. xxii + 426 pp., tables, illustra.,0
The archipelago of meaning: Methodological contributions to the study of Vanuatu sand drawing0
Enacted relations: Performing knowledge in an Australian indigenous community By FrancaTamisari, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. 2024. pp. viii + 274. $34.95 (ebook), $135 (hardback). ISBN (hardb0
Economic diversity in contemporary Timor‐Leste By KellySilva, LisaPalmer, TeresaCunha (Eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2023. pp. 326. ISBN: 97890872839570
A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life0
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The ocean on fire—Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists By AnaïsMaurer, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. pp. xvi + 240, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. US$26.95 (0
Come back anytime. Director: JohnDashbach, JD Media Ltd, 2021. 120 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles. Good docs.0
Sanan rai wisdom in Atauro's tourism transformation0
‘Playing the tourist card’: Clandestine solidarity in occupied Timor‐Leste0
We just ‘SHAREit’: Smartphones, data and music sharing in urban Papua New Guinea0
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The rites of normality: A co‐phenomenological auto‐ethnographic critique of a technocratic birth0
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The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fights Against Human Trafficking By LiebaFaier. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. pp. xv, 303, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐3056‐00
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Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology0
Yuupurnju: A warlpiri song cycle By Henry Cooke AndersonJakamarra, Jerry PatrickJangala, Steven DixonJapanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu‐KurlpurlurnuJampijinpa, CarmelO'Shannessy, and MyfanyTurpin, 0
Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga0
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The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier, Translated from the original French by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2024. pp 0
An Indigenous South: German writers on colonial South Australia By PeterMonteath and Matthew P.Fitzpatrick (Eds.). Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2024. 302 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐923042‐35‐30
EPILOGUE : Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts0
Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions0
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Military policing and labour extraction in the north‐west Kimberley0
Sentient ecologies: xenophobic imaginaries of landscapesBy Cotofana, Alexandra and HikmetKuran (Eds.), Berghahn: New York. 2023, 276 pages0
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Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes0
Review of Evadne Kelly, Dancing spirit, love, and war: Performing the translocal realities of contemporary Fiji, studies in dance history. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 20190
Samting Bilong Yumi Yet: Creative continuities and national beginnings0
Powerful things: The history and theory of sacred objects By Karl‐HeinzKohl, (2020). CanonPyon, Sean Kingston Publishing, xi+224 pp., foreword, index (hardback), A$110, ISBN: 978–1–912,385‐0
Family, Faith, Footy: A Pasifika Rugby StoryDirected by Jeremiah Tauamiti. Great Southern Television. 2023. 90 min.Kaugere: A Place Where Nobody EntersDirected by Stephen Dupont. Bordertown Studio. 200
Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England0
‘The last thing we want is somebody who liked a soft pink lipstick to have a bright red’: Dead body aesthetics in South Australian funeral homes0
Arts practice as subject and method: Contemporary anthropological perspectives0
Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy0
Hope in a time of world‐shattering events and unbearable situations: Policing and an emergent ‘ethics of dwelling’ in Lander Warlpiri country0
The last language on earth: Linguistic utopianism in the PhilippinesBy PiersKelly. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. xxxi + 291. (pbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐750992‐0, USD $39.950
Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world0
The unexpected gifts of life history as an ethnographic method0
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Structures of care and credibility: Emotional abuse, institutional blind spots, and the gendered recognition of care0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 20220
Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting0
Small town markets and crowded buses: Later‐generation Australian–Hungarian ‘diaspora backpackers’ narrate their journey to Hungary0
Eating as cultural practice: An indigenous Australian case study0
Jungle passports: Fences, mobility and citizenship at the Northeast India‐Bangladesh borderlands by Malini Sur.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Special series ethnographies of political0
Circulations: Modernist imaginaries of colonialism and decolonization in Papua New Guinea By CourtneyHandman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2025. pp. 232, USD34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐52‐041600‐00
Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic By EmmaQuilty. Cambridge: Polity, 2025. Pp. 165, references, index, AUD41 .95. 0
Art and urban space in Athens: The spatial composition of a street art paradise0
Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap0
Cross‐sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective0
Changing with the whims of dogs: An inter‐species exploration of self‐alteration with companion animals0
Cosmopolitan gastro‐aesthetics and the new tastes of Timor0
The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay0
Christian temporalities: Living between the already fulfilled and the not yet completed. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Book Series.By Anna‐KarinaHermkens, SimonColeman, MattTomlinson (Eds.). C0
Fragrant FrontierBy SarahTurner; AnnuskaDerks; Jean‐FrançoisRousseau (Eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press. 2022. xv, 230pp., photos, index, figures, maps, tables. A$ 43. ISBN: 97887769431410
Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia0
The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations0
On Behalf of the Living. Directed by Ton Otto, Christian Suhr and Gary Kildea. Denmark: Moesgaard film, 2023, 105 min, filmed in Papua New Guinea and the Netherlands Documentary Educational Resources,0
Re‐territorializing the city: Youth and the productive role of reggae music in Vanuatu0
System change for a liveable future0
The Good Enough Life0
Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post‐national Indian city: Streets, neighbourhoods, home By SanjaySrivastava, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 186. £75.00 (hc). ISBN: 97810091798670
Can we trust technology? By SarahPink and EmmaQuilty. New York: Routledge, 2025. pp. 103, figures, bibliography, index. USD43.99. ISBN 97810327104330
Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River: Environmental monitoring, social learning and Care of Place in Sabah, Malaysia0
REACH: Research as regeneration0
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Polynesianising and regenerating urban spaces: An analysis of the artworks and interventions of the Centre des Métiers d'Art de Polynésie française and of its artists0
Global Hong Kong: Post‐2019 migration and the new Hong Kong diaspora0
Suspicion: The politics of knowledge production when fieldwork and writing are uneasy0
Unbroken chains: The hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy By Melissa HopeDitmore, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2023. pp. xiv, 1–211. ISBN 0
Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour By KirstenBell. London: Caw Press. 2022. pp. x + 208 notes, £11.99. figures, bibliography. ISBN0
Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia By EmmaKowal (Ed.), Durham, NC: Duke UP. 2023. pp. 264. US$27.95, ISBN: 97814780275390
Re‐imagining suburbia, feeling the future: Reflections on collaborative ethnographic filmmaking0
The consumption of ritual and the changing values of filial piety in ancestor worship0
Picking our way through modernity0
The antisemitism to come? Gaza and the colonial management of necropolitical pollution0
Obituary: Elfriede Hermann (1960–2025)0
Writing to the gods: Digraphia, script choice and spiritual efficacy in contemporary Vietnam0
Introduction: From rupture to repair0
Filming jilba: Sensing beyond the exclusionary fictions of climate science0
Afterword: Reaching more than halfway0
Attunement: Form in motion0
Screen as stage0
Universities and settler colonialism in two countries: Australia and IsraelDhoombak Gooboowana: A history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Volume 1: Truth By Ross L.Jones, Jame0
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel By EdwardNarain and TarrynPhillips. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2024. pp. viii +356, reading guide, references, acknowledgements, glossary. ISBN0
Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in semarang By LukasLey (Ed.), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 240 pp. (pbk). US$27.00 (Sc). ISB0
Making our own destiny: Single women, opportunity, and family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo by LynneY, Nakano Honolulu: University of Hawai'i press. 2022. pp. xiii+238, ISBN: 97808248890
Beyond the law: Living blasphemy in Pakistan By MuhammadBilal. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. xv + 205, notes, bibliography, index, appendix, €139,99, ISBN 9783031710285 (hardcover)0
Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand0
Multispecies violence, ontological murk, epistemic resistance: Insights from the West Papuan plantation frontier–A response0
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Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements0
Six paintings from Papunya: A conversation By Fred R.Myers and TerrySmith, with a reflection by Stephen Gilchrist. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 1360
Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation0
Derriere le Miroir (but in parallel)John RichensTik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other Melbourne:Melbourne University Press. 2022. pp xi 2–260.ISBN 97805228781410
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Attenuated, transformed and re‐inscribed sacra: Towards an ethnography of traditional land tenure in the Northern Territory now0
Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows0
Afterword: A reconciled Australia: A vision for change based on continuity0
From modernity to memes: Reexamining visual culture as a Christian vehicle0
Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography0
Uneven connections: A partial history of the mobile phone in Papua New Guinea By Robert J.Foster. Canberra: ANU press. 2024. pp. xvi + 221, notes, figures, bibliography, index. AU0
An introduction in 3 parts: Anthropological perspectives on the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker0
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Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave0
Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation0
Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change0
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Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development0
Beading wáwya: Counting coup on cancer0
Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor‐Leste0
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Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title0
Reframing indigenous biography0
Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology: Explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible. By LorraineMortimer, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019, 347 pp. ISB0
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Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’0
Trial‐and‐error: Securing field access for qualitative research in Vietnam0
Frictions around rendering technical: Land disputes over climate change mitigation projects in Suau, Papua New Guinea0
Homand Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands0
Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension0
On language, (inter)disciplinarity, and collaboration with local scholars in Papua New Guinea environmental anthropology0
Animal activism on and off screen By ClaireParkinson and LaraHerring (eds.), Gadigal Country, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2024. pp. vii + 362, appendix, contributors, index. ISBN: 97817433297570
Dark tourism in Timor‐Leste: An examination of foreign tourists' visits to the Santa Cruz cemetery and the Comarca Balide prison via analysis of Tripadvisor reviews0
Tantric religion and social change0
Unequal lives: Gender, race and class in the Western Pacific. By NicholasBainton, DebraMcDougall, KalissaAlexeyeff and JohnCox, eds. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, notes, figures, bibliog. A$800
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Yawulyu: Art and song in Warlpiri Women's ceremony By MeganMorais, Lucy NampijinpaMartin, Peggy NampijinpaMartin, Marilyn NampijinpaMartin, Leah NampijinpaMartin, Helen NapurrurlaMorton, Janet Nakamar0
Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology0
Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China0
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