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JAMES J. FOX, AB, BLitt, DPhil
Professor

Email: james.fox@anu.edu.au
Phone 6125 0192 Fax 6125 1635

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Qualifications

  • 1962 : A.B. (Summa Cum Laude) - Harvard University
  • 1963 : Diploma (Distinction) - Oxford University (Social Anthropology)
  • 1965 : B.Litt. - Oxford University (Social Anthropology)
  • 1968 : D.Phil. - Oxford University (Social Anthropology)

Academic Awards and Distinctions

  • 1958-62: Harvard/Harvard National Scholar
  • 1961-62: Harvard Phi Beta Kappa: Undergraduate President
  • 1962-64: Rhodes Scholar, University College, Oxford University
  • 1967-68: Rhodes Scholar, University College, Oxford University
  • 1976-79: Honorary Associate in Southeast Asian Ethnology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University

Memberships and Appointments

  • 1963: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
  • 1963: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
  • 1967: Association of Social Anthropologists
  • 1977: Chair, Menzies Scholarship Committee, Harvard Club and ANU
  • 1986-96: Member, Editorial Board, Asian Studies Association of Australia
  • 1988: Foreign Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen)
  • 1990-93: Member, Australian Research Council Panel for the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • 1992-99: Member, International Advisory Council Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV)
  • 1992: Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • 1992-94: Vice President, Australian Anthropological Society
  • 1993: Chair, Australian Research Council Humanities Subpanel
  • 1996: Member, Editorial Board, Anthropological Forum
  • 1997-98: President, Australian Anthropological Society
  • 1997-: Member, Editorial Board, Sojourn
  • 1997-: Member, Editorial Board, Ethnos
  • 1998-: Member, Editorial Board, Paideuma
  • 2002: Foreign Affairs Council of Australia
  • 2002: Member, Arafura Timor Research Facility Board
  • 2004: Chair, Rhodes Territories Scholarship Selection Committee

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  • 1968-69: Duke University: Visiting Assistant Professor
  • 1969: Cornell University: Visiting Summer Lecturer
  • 1969-75: Harvard University: Assistant/Associate Professor
  • 1971-72: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
  • 1972-73: Nusa Cendana University, Kupang: Honorary Visiting Lecturer
  • 1975-: Professorial Fellow/Professor, The Australian National University
  • 1977-78: Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar
  • 1981: University of Bielefeld: Visiting Professor
  • 1986: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: Directeur d'Études Associé
  • 1986-87: University of Chicago: Visiting Professor
  • 1988: Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden: Hoogleraar Wisselleerstoel Indonesische Studien
  • 1993: Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
  • 1996: Senior Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden

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International Consultancies

  • 1980: AIDAB Reconnaissance Mission to West Timor
  • 1981-85: Consultant on behalf of:
    Australian Consultants International Ltd (ACIL) on:
    The Indonesian-Australian Timor Livestock Project
  • 1981-1993: Consultant on behalf of:
    The Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) to:
    The Indonesian Ministry of Finance and The Center for Policy and Implementation Studies
  • 1993-94: Consultant on behalf of:
    Groome Pöyry for the Asian Development Bank:
    Indonesian Forestry Sector Evaluation
  • 1996: Consultant on behalf of:
    Australian Marine, Science and Technology Ltd (AMSAT)
    Indonesian Coral Reef Management and Rehabilitation Project
  • 1998: Consultant on behalf of The World Bank:
    El Niño Impact Assessment Focus on Eastern Indonesia
  • 1998: Consultant on behalf of AusAID:
    Eastern Indonesia El Niño Impact Monitoring Assessment
  • 1998: Consultant on behalf of AusAID:
    Review of Australian Agricultural Aid:
    Growing the Future: AusAID, Poverty and Sustainable Agriculture.
  • 1998-99: Consultant on behalf of Fortech
    For BAPPENAS/Asian Development Bank:
    Indonesian Planning for Fire Prevention and Drought Management
  • 1999: International Observer with the Carter Center Popular Consultation in East Timor ( 23 August- 5 September).
  • 1999: Consultant on behalf of AusAID
    UN/World Bank Joint Assessment Mission to East Timor
    Assessment for Agricultural Reconstruction and Development.
  • 1999: Consultant on behalf of The World Bank
    Forest Use Policies and Strategies in Indonesia.
  • 2000: Consultant on behalf of AusAID
    World Bank/Bilateral Donor Agricultural Assessment Mission to East Timor.
  • 2000: Consultant on behalf of King’s College, London Independent Study on Security Options for East Timor.
  • 2000: International Observer with Carter Center: Presidential Elections in East Timor
  • 2002: Consultant to Environment Australia: A Study of Socio-Economic Issues Facing Traditional Indonesian Fishers Who Access the MOU Box (with S. Sen)
  • 2002: Consultant to AusAID: Review of the East Timor Country Strategy
  • 2003: Chair, Review Committee: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Leiden University
  • 2004: Consultant to ACIAR/AusAID: Design Mission for Seeds of Life 2 in East Timor
  • 2004: International Observer with the Carter Center: Presidential Elections (II) in Indonesia
  • 2004-5: Consultant to AFFA: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Report on Illegal Fishermen in Australian Waters: Shark Fishermen from Merauke, Dobo, Saumlaki and Papela
  • 2005: Member, Review Committee, University of Helsinki: Social Sciences
  • 2006: Consultant to AFMA: Australian Fisheries Management Authority - The Shark Species Targeted and Caught by Indonesian Fishermen in Australian Waters (with Dr Mark Meekan)
  • 2006: Member, Review Committee, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

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Publications

  1. Books
  2. Chapters in Books and Journals
  3. Brief Communications
  4. Translations
  5. Reviews in Academic Journals
  6. Ethnographic Films
  7. Publications in Press
  8. Other Writings
  9. Unpublished Academic Manuscripts
  10. Unpublished Formal Lectures

A. Books

  • 1977: Harvest of the Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • 1980: The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • 1980: Indonesia: The Making of a Culture. (Vol 1 of 3 volumes of Indonesia: Australian Perspectives) Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
  • 1980: Indonesia: Australian Perspectives. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University [3 volumes published as a single volume, with editors: J.J. Fox, R.G. Garnaut, P.T. McCawley, and J.A.C. Mackie.
  • 1986: Bahasa, Sastra dan Sejarah: Kumpulan Karangan Mengenai Masyarakat Pulau Roti. Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan. [Language, Literature and History: Collected Essays on Rotinese Society. Six essays in English on Rotinese culture and history with accompanying Indonesian translations.]
  • 1988: To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 1992: The Heritage of Traditional Agriculture Among the Western Austronesians. Canberra: Occasional Paper, Department of Anthropology.
  • 1993: Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order. Singapore: Oxford University Press. [Edited with H. Dick and J. A. C. Mackie.]
  • 1993: Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies.
  • 1995: The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. [Edited with P. Bellwood and D. Tryon.]
  • 1996: Origin, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography.Canberra, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. [Edited with C. Sather.]
  • 1996: Panen Lontar: Perubahan Ekologi dalam Kehidupan Masyarakat Pulau Rote dan Sawu.. Pustaka Sinar Harapan. [Indonesian Translation of Harvest of the Palm with new preface.]
  • 1997: Pembangunan Yang Berimbang: Jawa Timur dalam Era Orde Baru. [Indonesian Translation of Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order.]
  • 1997: The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Canberra, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1998: Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 2000: Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor, Crawford House Publishing, Australia and C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, UK. [Edited with Dionisio Babo Soares]
  • 2003: Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor, [New Edition] Canberra: ANU E Press
  • 2003: Agriculture: New Directions for a New Nation East Timor (Timor Leste), [Edited with Helder da Costa, Collin Piggin, and Cesar J. da Cruz]. ACIAR Proceedings No 113. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

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B. Chapters in Books and Journals

  • 1971: 'A Rotinese dynastic genealogy: structure and event' in Beidelman, T.O. (ed.), The Translation of Culture, pp.37-77. London: Tavistock.
  • 1971: 'Semantic parallelism in Rotinese ritual language' in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 127:215-55.
  • 1971: 'Sister's child as plant: metaphors in an idiom of consanguinity' in Needham, R. (ed.), Rethinking Kinship and Marriage, pp.219-52. London: Tavistock. (French translation: L'enfant de la soeur considÉrÉ comme plante in Needham, R. (ed.), La ParentÉ en Question. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1977.)
  • 1972: 'The Savunese' in Lebar, F. (ed.), Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, vol.1:77-80. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
  • 1972: 'The Sikanese' in Lebar, F. (ed.), Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, vol.1:88-90. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
  • 1972: 'The Helong' in Lebar, F. (ed.), Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, vol.1:105. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
  • 1972: 'The Rotinese' in Lebar, F. (ed.), Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, vol.1:106-08. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
  • 1972: 'The Ndaonese' in Lebar, F. (ed.), Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, vol.1:109. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
  • 1973: 'On bad death and the left hand: a study of Rotinese symbolic inversions' in Needham, R. (ed.), Right and Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification, pp.342-68. University of Chicago Press.
  • 1974: ' "Our ancestors spoke in pairs": Rotinese views of language, dialect and code' in Bauman, R. and Sherzer, J. (eds), Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, pp.65-85. Cambridge University Press.
  • 1975: 'On binary categories and primary symbols: some Rotinese perspectives' in Willis, R. (ed.), The Interpretation of Symbolism, pp 99-132. London: Malaby Press.
  • 1977: 'Roman Jakobson and the comparative study of parallelism' in van Schooneveld, C.H. and Armstrong, D. (eds), Roman Jakobson: Echoes of his Scholarship, pp.59-90. Lisse: Peter de Ridder Press.
  • 1977: 'The textile traditions of Roti, Ndao and Savu' in Kahlenberg, M. (ed.), Textile Traditions of Indonesia, pp.97-104. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  • 1977: 'Notes on the southern voyages and settlements of the Sama-Bajau' in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 133:459-65.
  • 1979: 'Translator's Foreword' to Mauss, Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo, pp.1-17. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • 1979: 'A tale of two states: ecology and the political economy of inequality on the island of Roti' in Burnham, P. and Ellen, R.F. (eds), Social and Ecological Systems, pp.19-42. London: Academic Press.
  • 1979: 'Standing in time and place: the structure of Rotinese historical narratives' in Reid, A. and Marr, D. (eds), Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia, no.4, pp.10-25. Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd.
  • 1979: 'The ceremonial system of Savu' in Becker, A. and Yengoyan, A.A. (eds), The Imagination of Reality: Essays on Southeast Asian Coherence Systems, pp.145-73. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
  • 1980: 'Introduction' in Fox, J.J. (ed.), The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, pp.1-18. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • 1980: 'Obligation and alliance: state structure and moiety organization in Thie, Roti' in Fox, J.J. (ed.), The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, pp.98-133. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • 1980: 'Models and metaphors: comparative research in Eastern Indonesia' in Fox, J.J. (ed.), The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, pp.327-333. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • 1980: 'Retelling the past: the communicative structure of a Rotinese historical narrative' in Canberra Anthropology 3(1): 56-66.
  • 1980: 'The "movement of the spirit" in the Timor area: Christian traditions and ethnic identities' in Fox, J.J. (ed.), Indonesia: The Making of a Culture, pp.235-46. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
  • 1980: 'Figure shark and pattern crocodile: the foundations of the textile traditions of Roti and Ndao' in Gittinger, M. (ed.), Indonesian Textiles, pp.39-55. Textile Museum, Washington, D.C. (Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles, 1979 Proceedings).
  • 1980: Comment on Blust: 'Early Austronesian social organization' in Current Anthropology 21:233-35.
  • 1981: 'Palmwein und Palmschnaps in Süd- und Südostasien' in Völger, G. et al (eds), Rausch und Realität: Drogen im Kulturvergleich, pp.182-87. Köln: Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (1982).
  • 1982: 'Dimensi waktu dalam penelitian sosial: suatu studi kasus di pulau Roti' in Koentjaraningrat and Emmerson, D.K. (eds), Aspek Manusia Dalam Penelitian Masyarakat, pp.116-39. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia.
  • 1982: 'The Rotinese Chotbah as a linguistic performance' in Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. (eds), Accent on Variety, pp.311-18. [Papers from the Third International Conference on Linguistics, Vol. 3] Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • 1983: 'The Great Lord rests at the centre: the paradox of powerlessness in European-Timorese relations' in Canberra Anthropology 5(2):22-33.
  • 1983: ' "For good and sufficient reasons": an examination of early Dutch East India Company ordinances on slaves and slavery' in Reid, A. (ed.), Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia, pp.246-62. Brisbane: Queensland University Press.
  • 1983: 'Adam and Eve on the island of Roti: a conflation of oral and written traditions' in Indonesia 36:15-23.
  • 1984: 'Bajau: Indonesia' in Weekes R. (ed.), Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey (second edition), vol.1:80-81. Westport: Greenwood Press.
  • 1984: 'Malayo-Polynesian-speaking peoples: Eastern Indonesia' in Weekes, R.(ed), Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey (second edition), vol.2:474-77. Westport: Greenwood Press.
  • 1985: 'Roti' in S. Sastrowardoyo et al (eds): Anthology of Asean Literatures: Oral Literature of Indonesia, pp.383-399. Jakarta: The Asean Committee on Culture and Information.
  • 1986: 'The ordering of generations: change and continuity in old Javanese kinship' in Marr, D.G. and Milner, A.C. (eds): Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries, pp.315-326. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Research School of Pacific Studies (Canberra).
  • 1987: 'Southeast Asian religions: insular cultures' in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol.13:520-527. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
  • 1987: 'Between Savu and Roti: The Transformation of Social Categories on the Island of Ndao' in Laycock, D.C and Winter, W. (eds), A World of Language, pp.195-203. Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, C-100.
  • 1987: 'The house as a type of social organization on the island of Roti, Indonesia' in C. Macdonald et al (eds): De la hutte au palais: sociétés "à maison" en Asie du Sud-Est insulaire, pp.215-224. Paris:CNRS.
  • 1988: 'Origin, Descent and Precedence in the Study of Austronesian Societies'. Public Lecture in connection with De Wisselleerstoel Indonesische Studien given on the 17th of March 1988. Leiden University.
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  • 1988: 'Introduction' in Fox, J.J. (ed.), To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia, pp.1-28. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 1988: ' "Manu Kama's road, Tepa Nilu's path": theme, narrative and formula in Rotinese ritual language' in Fox, J.J. (ed.), To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia, pp.161-201. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 1988: ' "Chicken bones and buffalo sinews": verbal frames and the organization of Rotinese mortuary performances' in Moyer, D.S. and Claessen, H.J.M.(eds), Time Past, Time Present, Time Future: Essays in honour of P.E. de Josselin de Jong, pp.178-194. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 131. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
  • 1988: 'Historical consequences of changing patterns of livelihood on Timor' in Wade-Marshall, D. and Loveday, P.(eds), Northern Australia: Progress and Prospects (Vol 1: Contemporary Issues in Development), pp.259-279. Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
  • 1988: 'Possible models of early Austronesian social organization' in Asian Perspectives 26 (1):35-43.
  • 1989: 'Category and complement: binary ideologies and the organization of dualism in Eastern Indonesia' in Maybury-Lewis, D. and Almagor, U. (eds), The Attraction of Opposites: Thought and Society in a Dualistic Mode, pp 33-56. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • 1989: 'An interview with P.E. de Josselin de Jong', Current Anthropology Vol 30(4): 501-510.
  • 1989: 'The memories of village santri from Jombang in East Java' (with Pradjarto Dirjosanjoto) in May, R. J. and O'Malley, W. J. (eds), Observing Change in Asia, pp.94-110. Bathurst: Crawfurd House Press.
  • 1989: 'F. A. E. van Wouden: A Tribute' in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol 145:425-429.
  • 1989: 'To the Aroma of the Name: The Celebration of a Rotinese Ritual of Rock and Tree' in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol 145:520-538.
  • 1990: 'A Portrait of Java' in Henley, D. (ed), Western Indonesia, pp.37-47. München: Nelles Verlag.
  • 1990: 'Akibat Historis Perubahan Pola Penghidupan Terhadap Pulau Timor' pp.1-25. NTTIADP: NTT Integrated Area Development Project. Kupang.
  • 1991: 'Managing the Ecology of Rice Production in Indonesia' in Hardjono, J. (ed), Indonesia: Resources, Ecology and Environment, pp.61-84. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
  • 1991: 'Introductory Remarks: The Heritage of Traditional Agriculture Among the Western Austronesians' in Indo-Pacific Bulletin 10/Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990, Vol I, pp.206-208. Canberra: Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. [Also published in Fox, J. J. (ed), The Heritage of Traditional Agriculture Among the Western Austronesians, pp.1-5. Canberra: Occasional Paper, Department of Anthropology, 1992.]
  • 1991: 'The Heritage of Traditional Agriculture in Eastern Indonesia: Lexical Evidence and the Indications of Rituals from the Outer Arc of the Lesser Sundas' in Indo-Pacific Bulletin 10/Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990, Vol I, pp.248-262. Canberra: Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. [Also published in Fox, J. J. (ed), The Heritage of Traditional Agriculture Among the Western Austronesians, pp.67-88. Canberra: Occasional Paper, Department of Anthropology, 1992.]
  • 1991: 'Ziarah Visits to the Tombs of the Wali, The Founders of Islam on Java' in Ricklefs, M.C. (ed), Islam in the Indonesian Social Context, pp.19-38. Clayton, Vic: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University.
  • 1992: 'Report on Eastern Indonesian Fishermen in Darwin' in Illegal Entry, pp.13-24. Occasional Paper Series No.1. Darwin: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Territory University.
  • 1992: ' "Bound to the Core, Held locked in all our Hearts": Prayers and Invocations among the Rotinese' in Canberra Anthropology 14(2):30-48.
  • 1992: 'Origin and Order in a Micronesian Society: A Comparative Assessment of Two Books on Palau' in Canberra Anthropology 15(1):75-86.
  • "I'll mock you to fine dust": Rotinese language of mockery, abuse, and cursing' in Dutton, T. Ross, M. M. and Tryon, D. in The Language Game: Essays in Memory of Donald C. Laycock, pp.581-588. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • 1993: Preface' in Dick, H., Fox, J. J., and Mackie, J. A. C. (eds), Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order pp.v-viii. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
  • 1993: The Rice Baskets of East Java: The Ecology and Social Context of Sawah Production' in Dick, H., Fox, J. J., and Mackie, J. A. C. (eds), Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order, pp 120-157. Singapore: Oxford University Press.
  • 1992:'Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Houses: An Introductory Essay' in Fox, J. J.(ed), Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living, pp.1-28. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1993: Memories of Ridgepoles and Crossbeams: The Categorical Foundations of a Rotinese Cultural Design' in Fox, J. J.(ed) Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living, pp.140-179. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1993: Ecological Policies for Sustaining High Production in Rice: Observations on Rice Intensification in Indonesia in Brookfield, H. and Byron, Y. (eds), South-east Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability, pp.221-233. Singapore and Tokyo: Oxford University Press and United Nations Press.
  • 1993: The Rotinese' in Hocking P., (ed), The Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol V: East and Southeast Asia, pp.212-215. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.
  • 1993: Ata Sikka of Flores, Eastern Indonesia' (with E. D. Lewis) in P. Hocking (ed), The Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol V: East and Southeast Asia, pp.19- 22. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.
  • 1993: Groundwater Nitrate in East Java, Indonesia' (with R. Wetselaar, G. D. Smith, M. Rum Ali, R. J. Moermanto, and Irdam Ahmad) in AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 14(2/3):273-277.
  • 1994: "Lié au noyau, serré en nos coeurs": Prières et invocations chez les Rotinais' in Headley, S. (ed), Anthropologie de la prière: rites oraux en Asie du Sud-Est in L'Homme 34(4):101-120.
  • 1994: Reflections on "Hierarchy" and "Precedence" ' in Jolly, M. and Mosko, M.(eds), Transformations of Hierarchy: Structure, History and Horizon in the Austronesian World, Special Issue of History and Anthropology 7 (1-4):87-108.
  • 1994: Rotinese' (with Charles Grimes) in Tryon, D. (ed), Comparative Austronesian Dictionary, pp.611- 622. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • 1994: 'Who's Who in Ego's Generation: A Consideration of Malayo-Polynesian Same Generation Kinship Terms' in Pawley, A. and Ross, M.(eds), Austronesian terminologies: continuity and change, pp.127-139. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • 1995: The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations' (with Bellwood, P. and Tryon, D.) in Bellwood, P., Fox, J. J. and Tryon, D. (eds), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, pp.1-16. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1995: Austronesian Societies and their Transformations' in Bellwood, P., Fox, J. J. and Tryon, D. (eds), The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, pp.214-228. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1995: 'Origin Structures and Systems of Precedence in the Comparative Study of Austronesian Societies' in P. J. K. Li, Cheng-hwa Tsang, Ying-kuei Huang, Dah-an Ho and Chiu-yu Tseng (eds), Austronesian Studies Relating to Taiwan, pp 27-57. Symposium Series of the Institute of History & Philology: Academia Sinica 3. Taipei.
  • 1996: Fishing Resources and Marine Tenure: The Problems of Eastern Indonesian Fishermen, in Barlow, C. and Hardjono, J. (eds), Indonesia Assessment 1995 Update, pp.163-174. Canberra and Singapore: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies & Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • 1996: Nitrate in Javanese Well Water: Occurrence and Origins' (with R. Wetselaar, G. D. Smith, R. van de Graaff, Doeljachman Moeljohardjo, Sri Raharjoe Asj'ari and Wiranto) in Aminuddin, B.Y. Sharma, M. L. and Willet, I. R. (eds), Agricultural Impacts on Groundwater Quality, pp.77-81. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
  • 1996: Introduction to Origins, Ancestry and Alliance' in Fox, J. J. and Sather, C. (eds), Origin, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography, pp.1-17. Canberra, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1996: The Transformation of Progenitor Lines of Origin: Patterns of Precedence in Eastern Indonesia', in J. J. Fox and C. Sather (eds), Origin, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography, pp.130-153. Canberra, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1997: Sunan Kalijaga and the Rise of Mataram: A Reading of the Babad Tanah Jawi as a Genealogical Narrative' in Riddell P. and Street, A. (eds), Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought & Society: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Anthony Johns, pp. 187-218. Leiden: Brill.
  • 1997: 'Profiles of Northern Australia and Eastern Indonesia' in Fletcher, C. (ed), Government Business Relations between Eastern Indonesia and the Northern Territory, pp.54-66. Darwin, N.T.: Northern Australia Research Unit, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
  • 1997: 'Place and Landscape in Comparative Austronesian Perspective' in Fox, J. J. (ed), The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality, pp.1-21. Canberra, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1997: 'Genealogy and Topogeny: Toward an Ethnography of Rotinese Ritual Place Names' in Fox, J. J. (ed), The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality, pp.91-102. Canberra, Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1997: 'Genealogies of the Sun and Moon: Interpreting the Canon of Rotinese Ritual Chants' in Masinambow, E.K.M. (ed), Koentjaraningrat dan Antropologi di Indonesia, pp.321-330. Jakarta: Assosiasi Antropologi Indonesia/Yayasan Obor Indonesia.
  • 1998: 'Shoals and Reefs in Australia-Indonesia Relations: Traditional Indonesian Fishermen' in Milner, A. and Quilty, M. (eds), Australia in Asia: Episodes, pp.111-139. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • 1998: 'Sharing Common Values and Global Responsibilities: Perspectives on the Indonesia-Australia Relationship' in Sulaiman, I.F., Sofyan, G.H. and Smith, S.L. (eds), Bridging the Arafura Sea: Australia-Indonesia Relations in Prosperity and Adversity, pp.205-213. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press, The Australian National University.
  • 1998: 'Foreword: The Linguistic Context of Florenese Culture' in Antropologi Indonesia., No. 56, pp. 1-12.
  • 1999: 'Banking on the People: Anthropology in the Creation of General Rural Credit in Indonesia' in Toussaint, S. and Taylor, J. (eds), Applied Anthropology in Australasia, pp.111-123. Nedlands, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press.
  • 1999: 'Precedence in Practice among the Atoni Pah Meto of Timor' in Aragon, L.V. and Russell, S. (eds), Structuralism's Transformations: Order and Revisions in Indonesia and Malaysia. Tucson, AZ: Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Monograph Series Press, 1999: 3-36.
  • 1999: 'The Origins and Distribution of Nitrate in Groundwater from Village Wells in Kotagede,Yogyakarta, Indonesia' (with Geoffrey D. Smith, Robbert Wetselaar, Robert H.M. van de Graaff, Doeljachman Moeljohardjo, Joko Sarwono, Wiranto, Sri Rahajoe Asj'ari, Ssuharto Tjojudo, Basuki) Hydrogeology Journal 1999: 7, 576-589.
  • 1999: 'The Impact of the 1997-98 El Niño on Indonesia', in Grove, R.H. and Chappell, J. (eds), El Niño - History and Crisis: Studies from the Asia Pacific Region, pp. 171-90. Cambridge: The White Horse Press.
  • 2000: 'A Confluence of Cultural Ideas: Tracing Origins in East Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia' in Antara Hubungan Bahasa dan Budaya di Kawasan Non-Austronesia, pp. 315-326. Pusat Studi Asia Pasifik. Yogyakarta: Universitas Gadjah Mada.
  • 2000: The UN Popular Consultation and its Aftermath in East Timor: An Account by One International Observer' in Manning, C. and van Diermen, P. (eds), Indonesia in Transition, Update 2000, pp. 109-119. Canberra and Singapore: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies & Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • 2000: ‘Tracing the path, recounting the past: historical perspectives on Timor', in Fox, J.J. and Soares, D.B. (eds), Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor. Crawford House Publishing, Australia and C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, UK, pp. 1-29.
  • 2000: ‘Maritime communities in the Timor and Arafura region: Some historical and anthropological perspectives', in O'Connor, Sue and Veth, Peter, (eds), East of Wallace's Line: Studies of past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region. A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Brookfield, USA.
  • 2000: ‘East Timor: The Task of Creating a New Nation' in Donald R. Rothwell and Martin Tsamenyi (eds), The Maritime Dimensions of Independent East Timor, pp.35-55. Centre for Maritime Policy, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
  • 2000: ‘Ingestion of nitrate from well water by village people in Indonesia' (with Geoffrey D. Smith, Robbert Wetselaar, Deny Hidayati and Herry Yogaswara) Ambio 29: 525-527.
  • 2001:‘Diversity and Differential Development in East Timor: Potential Problems and Future Possibilities’ in Hal Hill and João Mariano Saldanha (eds), East Timor: Development Challenges for the World’s Newest Nation pp.155-173. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Canberra: Asia Pacific Press.
  • 2001: ‘Asal Dari Mana? Departures and Displacements’ in Jukka Siikala (ed), Departures: How Societies Distribute Their People, pp. 67-81. The Finnish Anthropological Society, Helsinki. TAFAS 46. Helsinki: Valopaino Oy.
  • 2002: Forest Fires in Indonesia’ (with Applegate, G., Smith, R., Mitchell, A, Packham, D, Tapper, N and Baines, G) in Carol J. Pierce Colfer and Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo (eds), Which Way Forward? People, Forests, and Policymaking in Indonesia, pp. 293-308. Washington DC: Resources for the Future.
  • 2002: ‘Assessing UNTAET’s Role in Building Local Capacities for the Future’ Hadi Soesastro and Landry Haryo Subianto (eds), Peace Building and State Building in East Timor, pp 39-58. Jakarta: Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
  • 2002: ‘Interpreting the Significance of Tombs and Chronicles in Contemporary Java’ in Reid, A. and Chambert-Loir, H., The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia, pp. 160- 172. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  • 2002: ‘Beyond Jakarta: Contemplating Indonesia’s Possible Futures’ in Sakai, Minako (ed), Beyond Jakarta: Regional Autonomy and Local Society in Indonesia, pp 293-302. Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing.
  • 2002: ‘Tracing Genealogies: Toward an International Multicultural Anthropology’ in Antropologi Indonesia Vol 26, No 69 (Sept-Dec): 106-117.
  • 2002: "Toward a Social Anthropology of Islam in Indonesia" in Fu’ad Jabali and Jamhari (eds) Islam in Indonesia: Islamic Studies and Social Transformation, pp. 73-81. Montreal and Jakarta: Indonesia-Canada Islamic Higher Education Project.
  • 2003: "A District Analysis of the East Timorese Constituent Assembly and Presidential 2002 Elections 2001- 2002: in Dionisio da Costa Babo Soares et al, Elections and Constitution Making in East Timor, pp. 15-23. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.
  • 2003: "Kebakaran Hutan di Indonesia: Dampak dan Pemecahannya" (with Applegate, G., Smith, R., Mitchell, A, Packham, D., Tapper N. and Baines, G.) in Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo and Carol J. Pierce Colfer (eds), Ke Mana Harus Melangah? Masyarakat, Hutan, dan Perumusan Kebijakan di Indonesia, pp. 358-377. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia.
  • 2003: ‘Admonitions of the Ancestors: Giving Voice to the Deceased in Rotinese Mortuary Rituals’ in Peter J. M. Nas, Gerard Persoon and Rivke Jaffe (eds), Framing Indonesian realities: Essays in symbolic anthropology in honour of Reimar Schefold, pp. 15-26. Leiden, KITLV Press.
  • 2003: ‘Drawing from the Past to Prepare for the Future: Responding to the Challenges of Food Security in East Timor’ in Helder da Costa, Colin Piggin, Cesar J. da Cruz and James J. Fox (eds), Agriculture: New Directions for a New Nation, East Timor (Timor-Leste), pp. 101-110. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
  • 2003: ‘Perpetuating Ancestral Foundations: Some Transformations of Austronesian Houses’ in Gaudenz Domenig, Peter Nas and Reimar Schefold (eds), Indonesian houses: Transformation and tradition in vernacular architecture, pp. 369-388. Leiden, KITLV Press.
  • 2004: ‘Efforts and Events in a Long Collaboration: Working with Tim Asch on Ethnographic Films on Roti in Eastern Indonesia’ in Lewis, E.D. (ed): Tim Asch and Ethnographic Film: The Emergence of an Anthropological Genre, pp. 83-96. London & New York: Routledge.
  • 2004: ‘Notes on Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia’ in Kamanto Sunarto, Russell Hiang-Khng Heng and Achmad Fedyani Saifuddin, Multicultural Education in Indonesia and Southeast Asia: Stepping into the Unfamiliar, pp.11-20. Depok: Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia.
  • 2005: ‘Ritual Languages, Special Registers and Speech Decorum in Austronesian Languages’ in Himmelman, N. and S. Adelaar (eds): The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madasgcar, pp. 87-109. London: RoutledgeCurzon Press.
  • 2005: ‘Unfinished Edifice or Pandora’s Box:? Decentralization and Resource Management in Indonesia’ (with Dedi Supriadi Adhuri and Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo) in Resosudarmo, Budy P. (ed), The Politics and Economics of Indonesia’s Natural Resources, pp. 92-108. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • 2005: ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship Terminologies of Northern Luzon’ in Hsiu-chuan Liao and Carl R. Galvez Rubino (eds), Current Issues in Philippine Linguistics and Anthropology (Parangal kay Lawrence A. Reid), pp 227-247. Manila: The Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines.
  • 2005: ‘In a Single Generation: A Lament for the Forests and Seas of Indonesia’ in Boomgaard, Peter, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (eds) Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, pp. 43-60. Leiden: KITLV Press.
  • 2006: ‘Correnti teologico-politiche islamiche nell’Indonesia contemporanea’ in Salzani, Stefano (ed) Teologie politiche islamiche, pp 61-90. Genova-Milano: Marietti 1820.
  • 2006: ‘Ceremonies of reconciliation as prelude to violence in Suai’ in Coppel, Charles A. (ed), Violent Conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, Representation, Resolution, pp. 174-179. London: Routledge.
  • 2006: ‘Current Developments in Austronesian Studies’ in Nyoman Kutha Ratna, Made Dhanawaty, Ketut Dharma Laksana and Ida Bagus Putra Yadnya (editors), Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Austronesia di Tengah Era Global dan Dinamika Multikultural, pp. 1-24. Den Pasar: Universitas Udayana.
  • 2006: ‘Contending for Ritual Control of Land and Polity: Comparisons from the Timor Area of Eastern Indonesia’ in Reuter, Thomas (ed), Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian World, pp.237-252. Canberra: ANU E Press.
  • 2006: ‘Spatial Categories in Social Context: Tracing a Comparative Understanding of Austronesian Ideas of Ritual Location’ in Reuter, Thomas (ed), Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian World, pp. 365-367. Canberra: ANU E Press.
  • 2006: ‘Turn Right at the Buddha’ in Lal, Brij V. and Allison Ley (eds), The Coombs: A House of Memories, pp. 61-66. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Canberra: The ANU Press.

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C. Brief Communications

  • 1968: 'Ghostly rites de passage' in Man 3:134.
  • 1969: 'Van Wouden's types of social structure' in Man 4:650-51.
  • 1974: 'Comparative perspectives on Malagasy and Indonesian ethnography in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 130:353-61.
  • 1978: 'At the union of sun and moon' in Hemisphere, vol.22(7):6-11.
  • 1978: 'Island of gold and silver smiths' in Hemisphere, vol.22(12):24-27.
  • 1979: 'Introduction to the series: Goodyear perspectives in anthropology', in R. Needham, Symbolic Classification, pp.ix-x. Santa Monica: Goodyear Publishing Company.
  • 1980: 'Foreword' to K. Sherlock: A Timor Bibliography, pp.iii-v., Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Aids to Research Series A/4, The Australian National University.
  • 1981: 'An anthropologist's view' in Southeast Asian Studies in China: A Report, pp.62-69. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
  • 1981: 'Sailing to Kupang' in Hemisphere, vol.25, no.6:374-77 (reprinted in Hemisphere II:374-77).
  • 1983: 'Distribution of Javanese Speakers in Indonesia' (with Peter Gardiner), Addenda Sheet 1, in S.A.Wurm and Shiro Hattori (eds), Language Atlas of the Pacific Area, Part II. Canberra.
  • 1984: 'Preface' to Morris, Tetun-English Dictionary, pp.vi-vii. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics: Series C, No. 83.
  • 1988: 'Foreword' to Lewis, People of the Source: The Social and Ceremonial Order of Tana Wai Brama on Flores, pp.xi-xiv. Verhandelingen Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No 135.
  • 1990: 'Hierarchy and Precedence'. Working Paper No. 3. Comparative Austronesian Project.
  • 1990: 'Royal Cloth: Termanu, Roti.' in H. I. Jessup, Court Arts of Indonesia, p. 251. New York: Asian Society Galleries.
  • 1991: 'Foreword' to Taro Goh , Sumba Bibliography, 1959 - 1989.
  • 1991: 'The Flow of Life in Nusa Tenggara' in East of Bali: From Lombok to Timor, D. Pickell (ed), pp.30-35. Periplus Editions, Singapore.
  • 1991: 'Endeavour Lands on Savu Island' in East of Bali: From Lombok to Timor, D. Pickell (ed), pp.226-227. Periplus Editions, Singapore. [Edited and Abridged Version of: 'At the union of sun and moon'.]
  • 1991: 'Tiny Island of Goldsmiths and Weavers' in East of Bali: From Lombok to Timor, D. Pickell (ed), pp.232. Periplus Editions, Singapore. [Edited and Abridged Version of: 'Island of gold and silver smiths'.]
  • 1991: 'Debauchery and Grace in the Dutch Port' in East of Bali: From Lombok to Timor, D. Pickell (ed), pp.246-249. Periplus Editions, Singapore. [Edited and Abridged Version of: 'Sailing to Kupang'.]
  • 1992: 'Kosmologie in Botanische Verpakking' in P. Boomgaard, H. A. Poeze and G. Termorshuizen, Aangeraakt door Insulinde: De boeken van drieëntwintig lezers, pp.79-83. Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
  • 1992: 'Obituary: John Anthony Waldo Forge, 1929-1991' in Annual Report 1992, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia pp.91-93. Canberra: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
  • 1993: 'Obituary: John Anthony Waldo Forge, 27 February 1929 - 7 October 1991' in Oceania 63(4): 291-293.
  • 1994: 'Ecology of Agricultural Production: the Indonesian Case' in A. J. Jakeman and A. B. Pittock (eds) Climate Impact Assessment Methods for Asia and the Pacific, pp.123-127. Canberra: AIDAB.
  • 1995: 'Foreword' to M. Southon, The Navel of the Perahu, pp.vii-xi. Canberra: Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1996: 'May we please draw some water from your well?' in The Asia-Pacific Magazine, April 1996:43-44.
  • 1996: 'Prakata untuk Edisi Bahasa Indonesia' in Panen Lontar: Perubahan Ekologi dalam Kehidupan Masyarakat Pulau Rote dan Sawu, pp.ix-xi. Pustaka Sinar Harapan.
  • 1996: 'The Austronesian Botanic Idiom' in T. Whitten and J. Whitten (eds), Plants, Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia Vol 4:66-67. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1997: 'A Conversation with Professor James Fox' in The NIU Mandala, Newsletter of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, No 16: 1-3 February 28, 1997.
  • 1998: 'In Memory of Taro Goh' in Taro Goh, Communal Land Tenure in Nineteenth-Century Java, pp.v-viii. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 1998: 'Introduction' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Religions in Indonesia' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:8-9. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Wali: The first preachers of Islam in Java' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:18-19. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Klenteng' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:56-57. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'The Austronesian Heritage' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:68-69. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Culture and Ritual in Indonesia' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:98-99. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Megalithic Rituals' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:106-107. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Rituals of Exchange and Alliance' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:108-109. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Traditional Lunar Calendars' in J.J. Fox (ed), Religion and Ritual. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.9:116-117. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'The Oral Traditions of Nusa Tenggara' in J. H. McGlynn (ed), Language and Literature. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol 10:64-65. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1998: 'Timorese Houses' in G. Tjahjono (ed), Architecture. Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia, Vol.6:44-45. Singapore: Archipelago Press.
  • 1999: 'Masri Sahabatku: Sumber Informasi dan Inspirasi' in Perangin- angin, R and Singarimbun I (eds), Matahari di Hati Kami, Jakarta: Yayasan Merga Silima , 1999: 233-237.
  • 1998: 'Personal Recollections of Masri Singarimbun' Inspirasi' in Perangin-Angin, R and Singarimbun I (eds), Matahari di Hati Kami, Jakarta: Yayasan Merga Silima , 1999: 238-241
  • 2000: 'Foreword' to Raharjo Suwandi, A quest for justice: The millenary aspirations of a contemporary Javanese Wali, pp. vii-x. Leiden: KITLV Press.
  • 1999: 'Foreword' to Istutiah Gunawan, Hierarchy and Balance: A Study of Wanokaka Social Organization, pp. iv-viii. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
  • 1999: 'Herdenking', Patrick Edward de Josselin de Jong in Levensberichten en herdenkingen 2000, pp. 17-21. Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.
  • 2000: 'Preface' to Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor, pp. ix-x (with Dionisio Babo Soares). Crawford House Publishing, Australia and C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, UK.
  • 2000: Obituary: 'Gehan Wijeyewardene (1932-2000)' in Tai Culture V(2):6-7.
  • 2001: ‘East Timor’s Transition to Independence’ in Dialogue 20 (3):.10-15, Canberra: Academy of the Social Sciences.
  • 2001: ‘East Timor: Strategic Developments’ in Strategic Update 2001,.27-29, Canberra: Australian Defence Studies Centre.
  • 2001: ‘Foreword’ to Derek Freeman’s Dilthey’s Dream, pp.v-ix. Canberra:Pandanus Press.
  • 2001: ‘In Memoriam Professor Koentjaraningrat 15 June 1923' 23 March 1999’ Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 157 (2):.239-245, Leiden: KITLV.
  • 2001: Obituary for Derek Freeman in The Canberra Times 13 July: The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July: ANU Reporter.(Vol.32.No.10) 20 July: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Annual Report pp.67-69: The National Graduate, Winter 2001.
  • 2002: ‘Foreword’ to Zulkifli: Sufism on Java: The Role of the Pesantren in the Maintenance of Sufism in Java, pp.xi-xiii. INIS. Leiden-Jakarta.
  • 2002: Contribution to New Neighbour, New Challenge: Australia and the Security of East Timor. An ASPI Policy Report. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute Ltd.
  • 2003: ‘Pola Penanaman dan Pemasaran Padi di Desa Mojosari, Kabupaten Jombang, Tahun 2001’ (with Bambang Soelaksono and Sri Kusumastuti Rahayu), SMERU Laporan Lapangan, pp 1- 40. Jakarta: June 2003.
  • 2004: ‘Foreword’ to Yunita T. Winarto: The Seeds of Knowledge: The Beginnings of Integrated Pest Management in Java, pp xii-xiii. Yale University Press (Southeast Asian Studies Monograph No 53.) New Haven.
  • 2004: ‘Foreword’ to Tom Therik: Wehali, The Female Land: Traditions of a Timorese Ritual Centre, pp.xv-xviii. Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies in association with Pandanus Books, The Australian National University.
  • 2006: 'The Intellectual Rediscovery of Timor' in Seixas, Paolo Castro and Aone Engelhoven (eds), Diversidade Cultural Na Construção da Nação E Do Estado em Timor-Leste, pp.15-18. Porto: Ediçôes Universidade Fernandon Pessoa.
  • 2006: ‘Foreword’ to Endang Turmudi’s Struggling for the Umma, pp. ix-x. Canberra: The ANU E Press.
  • 2006: ‘Foreword’ to Muhaimin AG’s The Islamic Traditions of Ceribon, pp.xii-xii. Canberra: The ANU E Press.
  • 2006: ‘Foreword’ to Derek Freeman’s The Social Structure of a Samoan Village Community. (Edited by Peter Hempenstall), pp. vii-x. Division of Pacific and Asian Studies, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU: Target Oceania.
  • 2007: ‘Foreword’ to Natasha Stacey’s Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone, xi-xii. The ANU E Press

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D. Translations

  • 1973: Translation from the French: 'A contribution to the problem of the pre-eminence of the right, based on Arabic evidence', by J. Chelhod in Needham, R. (ed.), Right and Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification, pp.239-62. University of Chicago Press.
  • 1979: Translation from the French: Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology by Mauss, M. with Beuchat, H. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • 1980: Translation from the Indonesian: 'The order and significance of the Savunese house', by N.L. Kana in Fox, J.J. (ed.), The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, pp.221-29. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • 1980: Translation from the Dutch: 'The significance of cattle on Sumba' by L. Onvlee in Fox, J.J. (ed.), The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, pp.195-207. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

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E. Reviews in Academic Journals

  • 1970: Review of Adams, System and Meaning in East Sumba Textile Design in American Anthropologist 72(5):1129-31.
  • 1970: Review of Peacock, Rites of Modernization in Anthropos 65:336-37.
  • 1970: Review of Van Wouden, Types of Social Structure in Eastern Indonesia in Anthropos 65:337-39.
  • 1972: Review of Bloch, Placing the Dead in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 128(4):504-08.
  • 1974: Review of Death of an Island Culture (Film) in American Anthropologist 76(3):714-15.
  • 1974: Review of Ardener (ed.), Social Anthropology and Language in American Anthropologist 76:934-35. 1974 Review of Liddle, Ethnicity, Party and National Integration in Anthropos 69:1011-13.
  • 1974: Review of Tuuk, A Grammar of Toba Batak in Anthropos 69:1014-16.
  • 1975: Review of Freeman, Report on the Iban in Anthropos 70:362-64.
  • 1975: Review of Lombard, L'Anthropologie Britannique Contemporaine in American Anthropologist 77:931.
  • 1976: Review of Crystal, Ma'Bugi: Trance of the Toraja (Film) in American Anthropologist 78(3):723-24.
  • 1976: Review of Wet Earth and Warm People (Film) in American Anthropologist 78(3):724.
  • 1976: Review of Luna, Born Primitive in the Philippines in Man 11(3):457.
  • 1977: Review of Peacock, Consciousness and Change in Man 12:201-02.
  • 1977: Review of Berthe, Bei Gua, Itineraire des Ancêtres in Anthropos 72:638-39.
  • 1977: Review of Miles, Cutlass and Crescent Moon in Anthropos 72:644-46.
  • 1978: Review of Kapita, Sumba di dalam Jangkauan Jaman and Masyarakat Sumba dan Adat Istiadat in Oceania 48(3):235.
  • 1978: Review of de Josselin de Jong, Structural Anthropology in the Netherlands: A Reader in Man 13(2):331-32.
  • 1978: Review of Koentjaraningrat, Anthropology in Indonesia in Anthropos 73:643-44.
  • 1978: Review of Brown, Principles of Social Structure in Southeast Asia in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 1(3):94-96.
  • 1978: Conversion and change: Review of Miles, Cutlass and Crescent Moon in Hemisphere, vol.22(3):17.
  • 1979: Review of Wood, Cultural-Ecological Perspectives on Southeast Asia in Journal of Asian Studies 38(2):423-24.
  • 1979: Review of Locher, Transformation and Tradition in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 3(1):97-98.
  • 1980: Review of Siegel, Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People in Pacific Affairs 53(3):575-77.
  • 1980: Review of Boon, The Anthropological Romance of Bali in Oceania 51(1):66-67.
  • 1980: Review of Metzner, Man and Environment in East Timor in Oceania 51:67.
  • 1980: Review of Ruddle et al., Palm Sago: A Tropical Starch from Marginal Lands in Human Ecology 8(3):306-07.
  • 1980: Review of N.C. van Setten van der Meer, Sawah Cultivation in Ancient Java in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 4(1):93-94.
  • 1981: Review of Barraud, Tanebar-Evav: Une sociÉtÉ de maisons tournÉe vers le large in Man 16(3):483-84.
  • 1981: Review of Ellen, Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 5(1):93-94.
  • 1982: Review of Nooy-Palm, Sadan-Toraja in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 5(3):93.
  • 1983: Review of Fei Hsiao Tung, Toward a People's Anthropology in The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 9:185-89.
  • 1983: Review of Phillips, Sijobang in Asian Folklore Studies 42(2):310-12.
  • 1984: Review of Beekman, The Poison Tree in The Journal of Asian Studies 43(2):365-66.
  • 1984: Review of Phillips, Sijobang in Oceania 44(4):332-33.
  • 1984: Review of Verheijen, Komodo in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 8(1):152-53.
  • 1984: Review of Masselos, Popular Art in Asia in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 8(2):133-34.
  • 1985: Review of Forth, Rindi in Man 20(4):758-759.
  • 1986: Review of Rassers, Panji, The Culture Hero in Oceania 56 (3):242- 243.
  • 1986: Review of Tjondronegoro, Social Organization and Planned Development in Rural Java in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 10 (1): 188-190.
  • 1986: Javanese in Indonesia': Review of Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo, Javanese Influence on Indonesian; Soeseno Kartomihardjo, Ethnography of Communicative Codes in East Java; and, Ignatius Suharno, A Descriptive Study of Javanese in Canberra Anthropology 9(2):89-94.
  • 1988: Review of P.E. de Josselin de Jong (ed), Unity in Diversity in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 144(1):178-181.
  • 1988: Review of R.S. Kipp and S. Rodgers (eds) Indonesian Religion in Transition in American Ethnologist 15(4): 806-807.
  • 1988: Review of A. D. Napier, Masks, Transformation, and Paradox in Man 23(4):784-785.
  • 1989: Review of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong, Wetan Fieldnotes in Oceania 60 (1): 71.
  • 1989: Review of A. Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce in American Ethnologist 16 (1):808-809.
  • 1990: Review of Dove, The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development in Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 26(2):160-162.
  • 1991: Review of R. de Ridder and J. A. J. Karremans, The Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 147:160- 164.
  • 1991: Review of J. Drakard, A Malay Frontier: Unity and Duality in a Sumatran Kingdom in Pacific Affairs 63(3):436-437.
  • 1991: Review of S. Errington, Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm in The Journal of Asian Studies 50(4): 988-989.
  • 1992: Review of C. Friedberg, La savoir botanique des Bunak in American Ethnologist 19 (2):403-404.
  • 1993: Review of Hayami and Kawagoe, The Agrarian Origins of Commerce and Industry in Asian Pacific Economic Literature 7 (2):76-77.
  • 1993: Review of Millar, Bugis Weddings: Rituals of Social Location in Modern Indonesia in Asian Studies Association of Australia Review 17(2):225-226.
  • 1994: Review of Boomgaard, Between Sovereign Domain and Servile Tenure: The Development of Rights to Land in Java, 1780-1870 in Sojourn 9(2):295- 98.
  • 1997: Review of Wiener, Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali in American Ethnologist 24(1):259-260.
  • 1998: Review of Hitchcock, Islam and Identity in Eastern Indonesia in Sojourn 14(2):414-415.
  • 2000: Review of Kirch, The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World in Asian Studies Review 24(2):303-4.
  • 2002: Review of Rinkes, Nine Saints of Java in Asian Journal of Social Science 29(2): 345-347.
  • 2004: Review of Rutherford, Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier in The International History Review 26(2):382-383.

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Ethnographic Films

  • 1983: The Water of Words: A Cultural Ecology of an Eastern Indonesian Island. (With Timothy and Patsy Asch). 16 mm colour. 30 minutes. Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Mass.
  • 1984: Air Kata-Kata: Sebuah Film tentang Lingkungan Hidup dan Budaya Satu Pulau di Nusa Tenggara Timur. (With Timothy and Patsy Asch) 16 mm colour. 30 minutes. Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Mass. [Indonesian Version of Water of Words]
  • 1988: Spear and Sword: A Payment of Bridewealth. (With Timothy and Patsy Asch) 16 mm colour. 25 minutes. Documentary Educational Resources, Watertown, Mass.
  • 1992: In the Play of Life: A Wayang Performance in East Java. (With Patsy Asch and Raharjo Suwandi) 25 minutes. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
  • 2000: Consulting Embah Wali. (With Patsy Asch and Raharjo Suwandi) 41 minutes. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.

Publications in Press

  • ‘Diversity and Differential Development in East Timor: Potential Problems and Future Possibilities' in Hall Hill and João Mariano Saldanha (eds), East Timor: Development Challenges for the World's Newest Nation. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: Singapore; Palgrave: London and New York, and Asia-Pacific Press, Canberra.
  • 'Efforts and Events in a Long Collaboration: Working with Tim Asch on Ethnographic Films on Roti in Eastern Indonesia' in Lewis, E.D. (ed): Tim Asch and Ethnographic Film: The Emergence of an Anthropological Genre.
  • 'Interpreting the Significance of Tombs and Chronicles in Contemporary Java' in Reid, A. and Chambert-Loir, H., The Powerful Dead in Indonesia.
  • 'Perpetuating Ancestral Foundations: Some Transformations of Austronesian Houses' in Nas, P. (ed), Traditional Houses and Settlements in Western Indonesia.
  • 'The Discourse and Practice of Precedence' in Vischer, M. (ed), Precedence: Processes of Social Differentiation in the Austronesian World.

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Other Writings

  • 1975: 'Indonesians' in Family of Man, vol.4, pt.47:1301-05.
  • 1975: 'Javanese' in Family of Man, vol.4, pt.51:1416-20.
  • 1975: 'Kubu' in Family of Man, vol.5, pt.61:1685-87.
  • 1975: 'Kwakiutl' in Family of Man, vol.5, pt.61:1698-700.
  • 1975: 'The fierce giants who always said, "one, two, three, four"' in The Canberra Times, November 15.
  • 1975: 'Forgotten, neglected but not peaceful' in The Canberra Times, November 27.
  • 1976: 'Rotinese' in Family of Man, vol.6, pt.83:2297-98.
  • 1976: 'Savunese' in Family of Man, vol.6, pt.84:2327-28.
  • 1987: 'Revival of Timorese clothmaking' in The Canberra Times, May 24.
  • 1987: 'West Timorese Traditional Textiles from the Australian Ambassador's Aid Project' (in collaboration with R. Maxwell) in Australian National Gallery Association News, July/August.
  • 1987: 'ANG's Indonesian textile collection among the best' in The Canberra Times, August 21.
  • 1987: 'Crackling decoration that warrants close scrutiny' in The Canberra Times, December 29.
  • 1988: 'The lost art of building ships of oak' in The Canberra Times, October 1.
  • 1988: 'Praten is hun levensvreugde' in Sociodrome 1988/4:12-13.
  • 1990: 'A Revolution in the Village' in The Independent Monthly, 17-19 February.
  • 1997: 'Farmers prepare to weather El Niño's return' in The Australian, 15 August.
  • 1999: 'Mass for the Dead" in The Canberra Times, 11 September.
  • 1999: 'The truth will come out" in The Jakarta Post, 15 September.
  • 1999: 'Brief hope in East Timor gives way to killing' in NCR, 17 September.
  • 1999: 'Mission Implausible: More at Stake than Independence" in The Washington Post, 19 September
  • 1999: 'Timor Timur (5): Romo Dewanto' in D&R, 7/21: 27 Sept-3 Okt.
  • 2000: 'Was this revenge for death of priest?' in The Australian, 8th September.
  • 2001: ‘Fretilin Facing Array of Challengers in Timor poll’ in The Canberra Times, 27 August.
  • 2002: ‘Facing the Future’ in The Courier-Mail, 18 May.
  • 2003: 'Pola Penanaman dan Pemasaran Padi di Desa Mojosari Kabupaten Jombang Tahun 2001' (with Bambang Soelaksono, Sri Kusumastuti Rahayu andNuning Akhmadi (Editor)), Field Report June 2003, The SMERU Research Institute.
  • 2004: 'Currents in Contemporary Islam in Indonesia. Paper originally presented at HARVARD ASIA VISION 21, 29 April – 1 May, 2004 Cambridge, Mass.

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Unpublished Academic Manuscripts

  • 1961: The Community of Huaylas, Peru (Summer Field Study Report, 44pp).
  • 1962: Kin and Affine among the Kwakiutl (A.B. Thesis, 107pp).
  • 1965: Roti and Savu: A Literary Analysis of Two Island Societies in Eastern Indonesia (B.Litt. Thesis, 276pp).
  • 1968: The Rotinese: A Study of the Social Organization of an Eastern Indonesian People (D.Phil. Thesis, 393pp).
  • 1972: Rotinese Ritual Language: Texts and Translations (303pp).
  • 1972: Dictionary of Rotinese Formal Dyadic Language (270pp).
  • 1972: Termanu: The Political History of an Indonesian State: Texts and Translations (150pp).
  • 1972: Order and Perfection: A Study on Rotinese Ritual Language (81pp).
  • 1972: The Crocodile's Wealth: A Study on Rotinese Mythology (44pp).
  • Unpublished Formal Lectures

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