James Weiner, MA (Northwestern), PhD (ANU)
Visiting Fellow, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program

Email: james.weiner[at]anu.edu.au

Research Interests

Papua New Guinea; Aboriginal Australia; language, myth, poetry, art; anthropology of religion; native title; politics of contemporary indigeneity; indigenous people, mining and the state.

Key Publications

• The Empty Place: Poetry, Space, and Being Among the Foi of Papua New Guinea, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1991.
• (ed.) Too Many Meanings: a Critique of the Anthropology of Aesthetics, special issue of Social Analysis, 38, 1995.
• The Lost Drum: the Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1995.
• 'On televisualist anthropology: representation, aesthetics, politics', Current Anthropology, 38(2), 1997.
• 'Culture in a sealed envelope: the concealment of Australian Aboriginal heritage and tradition in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 5(2), 1999.
• Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology, Berg Press, Oxford and New York, 2001.

Career Highlights

Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia; Vice-President, Australian Anthropological Society (1994-96).