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Dr. Don Gardner

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    • Regionale Interessen und Spezialisierungen
      Melanesia, with a focus on New Guinea (especially Highlands Fringe [Mountain Ok], Highlands & Sepik)

      Thematische Interessen und Spezialisierungen
      General social theory; philosophical issues in anthropology; conceptualising relations between the social and the biological sciences; religion & ritual; societies, cosmologies and their historical transformation

      Laufende Projekte
      1) "Subsistence and ecology in their social context amongst the Mianmin, <ST1:place w:st="on"><ST1:city w:st="on">West Sepik Province</ST1:city>, <ST1:country-region w:st="on">Papua New Guinea</ST1:country-region></ST1:place>." With Dr Robert Attenborough. (Funded by Australian Research Council)
      2) A critical synthesis and comparison of the works of Marshall Sahlins and Clifford Geertz
      3) Ritual and speech act theory

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Publikationen

  1. Aufsätze in Zeitschriften
  2. Aufsätze in Sammelbänden
  3. Varia

Aufsätze in Zeitschriften

  • 2001, Intensification, social production and the inscrutable ways of culture. In C. Ballard & B. Allen (eds.), Agricultural Transformation and Intensification. Special Issue of Asia Pacific Viewpoint 42(2)
  • 2000, Social life as a DIY project. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 11:59-77
  • 1999, A cognitive theory of cultural meaning: A book review essay. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 10:217-221
  • 1997, with R.D. Attenborough and T.R. Burkot. Altitude and the risk of bites from mosquitoes infected with malaria and filariasis among the Mianmin people of Papua New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 91, 8-10
  • 1995, with Attenborough, R.D. and Porteous, R.K. Longitudinal growth patterns in the highland fringes of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: a comparison of three groups. Annals of Human Biology 22:131-150
  • 1993, "An unstable amalgam": tracing culture’s antinomies to their roots. Canberra Anthropology 16:88-101
  • 1990, with Jack Golson. Agriculture and sociopolitical organization in New Guinea Highlands prehistory. Annual Review of Anthropology 19:395-417
  • 1988, Reflections on society, culture and evolution: a critique of Tim Ingold´s Evolution and social life. Canberra Anthropology 11:44-64
  • 1987, Spirits and conceptions of agency among the Mianmin of Papua New Guinea. Oceania 57:161-177
  • 1985, Introduction. D.S. Gardner & C.N. Modjeska (eds.) Recent studies in the political economy of Papua New Guinea. Special Issue of Mankind August 1985
  • 1984, A comment on Anna Yeatman´s "The Procreative Model". Social Analysis 16:13-16.
  • 1984, A note on the androgynous qualities of the cassowary. Oceania 55:137-145
  • 1983, Performativity in ritual; the Mianmin case. Man 18:3.
  • 1981, Cultural ecology, the Mianmin and seasonality (An exchange with G.E.B. Morren and Bonnie McCay). Mankind 12:3.
  • 1980, The Determinants of Mianmin settlement patterns. Mankind, 12:2
  • 1979, The analysis of "belief" and the avoidance of ethnocentrism. Canberra Anthropology Vol 2, No.1.
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Aufsätze in Sammelbänden

  • 2004, The advent and history of Mianmin identity. In Toon van Meijl & Jelle Miedema eds.), Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific. KITLV Press: Holland
  • 2001, Continuity and identity: Mineral development and land tenure among the northern Mountain Ok. In James F. Weiner & Alan Rumsey (eds.), From myths to minerals. Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst, Australia
  • 1999, Anthropophagy and the subtle ways of ethnocentrism. In L. Goldman (ed.) The anthropology of cannibalism. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Conn
  • 1993, with James F. Weiner. Social anthropology of Papua New Guinea. In M. Alpers and R. Attenborough (eds). Human biology in Papua New Guinea: the small cosmos. Oxford University Press
  • 1988, Mianmin women in myth and reality. In D.Gewertz (ed.) Myths of matriarchy revisited. Oceania Monographs. Sydney
  • 1987, Durkheim on culture. In D. Austin (ed.) The making of culture. George Allen & Unwin 1987, Durkheim on culture. In D. Austin (ed.) The making of culture. George Allen & Unwin
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Varia

  • 1995, with D. Jorgensen, G.E.B. Morren & R. Paulsen. The cultural context of the Nena Project. A report to Highlands Gold Ltd. 383pp
  • 1995, The Nena Project socio-economic impact assessment: cultural impacts. A report for Environmental Monitoring and Management Pty. Ltd. and Highlands Gold Ltd. 150pp
  • 1994, The Nena Project: A preliminary report and a proposal. A report for Environmental Monitoring and Management Pty. Ltd. and Highlands Gold Pty.Ltd
  • 1993, The Peppan Land Claim. A report to the Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs
  • 1991, Bundjalung attitudes and beliefs concerning a site in East Ballina. Report for National Heritage Studies/NSW Dept. of Conservation and Land Management
  • 1991, Aboriginal community responses to a report concerning the proposed RAAF airfield at Peppan. Report prepared for National Heritage Studies/ Dept.of Defence
  • 1991, Assessment of the Impact upon the Aboriginal Community of Gladstone, Queensland of a Proposed Steel Plant. Report for National Heritage Studies/ Gladstone Special Steel
  • 1991, Aboriginal community attitudes to a proposed RAAF base near Napranum, Weipa. Report prepared for National Heritage Studies/ Dept.of Defence
  • 1990, Aids Prevention in the South Pacific. Report prepared for United States Agency for International Development and AIDAB
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