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{"title":"Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act","authors":"Jilda Andrews","doi":"10.1111/taja.12499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12499","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ethnographic collections, as material repositories of historical relationships, are powerful bodies of intercultural knowledge and exchange. Indigenous people have been active and influential in the building of these collections and continue today to be critical to the ongoing interpretation and engagement of such repositories. When faced with the tangled, overgrowth of values accumulated around collected objects over time, regenerative processes can offer new life. By applying a metaphorical ‘cool burn’ it is hoped that space can be created where new shoots of knowledge can emerge. This research takes the form of a digital article twinned with an exegetical reflection to extend the notion of Indigenous engagement and so consider some of the regenerative potentials of collection research when Indigenous philosophies and concepts drive research enquiry and more importantly, frame outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"111-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Filming jilba: Sensing beyond the exclusionary fictions of climate science","authors":"Citt Williams,&nbsp;Jarramali Kulka","doi":"10.1111/taja.12505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12505","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Filming <i>jilba</i>’ makes up part of a larger practice-based research project focusing on the body as a site of climate sensitivity and perception. Investigated in collaboration with Bama colleague, Jarramali Kulka (a Kuku Yalanji-Nyungkal man from Australia's tropical Far North Queensland), and his custodial practice <i>jilba</i> (pronounced jil-ba), the article describes the embryotic growth of a performative practice-based methodology that leads with intimate sensing—a generative counter position to remote sensing—and grows it phenomenologically through the field work of a documentary media practice. In attempting to speak across epistemic divides, the project process addresses the exclusionary fictions that conventional climate sensing performs by attuning to ‘a world that already has its own stories’.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"71-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142244798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology","authors":"Steven Feld","doi":"10.1111/taja.12493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12493","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology’ is an intermedia composition that meditates on the climate of history, listening to histories of listening from the Papua New Guinea rainforest to nuclear Japan to ancient and contemporary Greece. It proceeds through continual recombinations of visual and sonic media, with photographs, graphics, animation, and cinema dialoguing with ethnographic field recording of Indigenous song, ambient environmental sound, cinema soundtracks, electroacoustic and radio composition, and vocally performed text.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"143-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy","authors":"Anthony Lovenheim Irwin,&nbsp;Kenneth M. George,&nbsp;Kirin Narayan","doi":"10.1111/taja.12502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12502","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;‘Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy’ is part of a collective experiment in digital composition published within this double special issue of &lt;i&gt;TAJA&lt;/i&gt;. Our aim has been to ignite and enable novel forms of social analysis. We invited contributors to creatively rethink the form of the academic article with us and built a custom-designed website to host the results. All original research contributions in this collection are made up of two parts: a digital article and its author/s' exegetical commentary. They have been peer reviewed as a pair. (See our introduction, ‘Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology’, for an extended discussion of the rationale behind this adventure in ‘off-grid’ scholarship and why the digital article on the Curatorium website is not available as a pdf.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Access the digital article here: https://curatorium.au/taja-journal/form-content/cult-cosmos-craft. Or by clicking the link in this note.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the authors' commentary below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[To experience Curatorium as intended please ensure the following browsers are used: Chrome version 121.0.6167.139 or later OR Safari version 16.6.1 or later.]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We should begin by saying what has led us to compose our multimedia web article on &lt;i&gt;khrop khru&lt;/i&gt; (‘covered by the guru’), an annual rite in Thailand's craft and vocational academies. Kirin Narayan and Ken George have been pursuing an ethnographic and historical study of Vishwakarma worship in India and beyond since 2017 and teamed up that year with Anthony Lovenheim Irwin—a specialist on Theravada Buddhism and material culture—to lead research into Thailand, where the Hindu-Buddhist deity Vishwakarma is known as Phra Witsanukam. No matter where research has taken us, Vishwakarma is celebrated as the patron deity of artisans, technicians, architects, engineers, and others whose livelihood relies on tools, machines, and fabrication—like the graduates of Thailand's vocational academies. Beyond its obvious relevance to regional studies, the broader aim of our ethnographic and comparative work on Vishwakarma worship has been to recuperate the role of technē and material culture in lived religion and lived cosmology. Our multimedia article, ‘Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy’, is in keeping with that aim. For the purposes of this special issue of &lt;i&gt;TAJA&lt;/i&gt; on ‘Epistemic attunements’, we also have taken steps to align and shape the article's collaborative design process with the cosmo-technical dispositions of Phra Witsanukam's devotees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In contrast to more-than-human approaches in multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, sensory ethnography, and affect theory—where ‘attunement’ has gained such methodological and analytic traction—we attune to the numinous, the luminous, the machine, and the tool, and the way devotees dwell, and indeed, attune with them and with each other. For this reason, in this essay, we have been drawn especially to the hap","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"49-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12502","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"REACH: Research as regeneration","authors":"Jennifer Deger,&nbsp;Victoria Baskin Coffey","doi":"10.1111/taja.12491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12491","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The galvanising aim in curating ‘Epistemic attunements’ has been to reach beyond the infrastructural imaginaries of the corporate publishing regimes that so brutally standardise the form, production, and distribution of research. Yet rather than being wholly enamoured with the pursuit of new publics, or with the kind of reach and influence that our bespoke digital platform affords, we take the idea of ‘reach’ in a different direction. In short, what we propose here is that reaching beyond anthropology offers a way to return the discipline to its core commitments. REACH explores what happens when anthropology and its interlocutors come together to cultivate shared grounds of epistemic care and concerns. It asks, what happens when multiple histories show up in the process? It proposes that therein lies the grounds for a regenerative anthropology.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 1-2","pages":"85-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12491","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142245092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forecasts: A story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster By Caroline E. Schuster, illustrated by Enrique Bernardou, David Bueno (Eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. xvii + 212, CAN$28.95 (Pb.), CAN$70 (Hc.). ISBN: 9871487542238","authors":"Mardi Reardon-Smith","doi":"10.1111/taja.12510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"364-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/taja.12509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"344-348"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia","authors":"Catherine Massola","doi":"10.1111/taja.12511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12511","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gija people in the East Kimberley community of Warmun (Western Australia) negotiate their engagement with pastoralism with varying degrees of primacy. Through ethnography and oral histories, I explore how Gija people manage pastoralism and its effects through acts of accommodation, adoption, refusal and innovation. I begin by outlining the development of the colonial pastoral industry in Western Australia, state and federal legislation that withheld and underpaid wages to Aboriginal pastoral workers and cattle-killing practices and protective measures. I use ‘Kila’, the bovine species killed for local consumption, as an entry point to explore intercultural relations and Gija relative autonomy within this context. Analysing Kila etymologically and through an ethnographic case study involving its procurement, dissection, and distribution, I find that cooperation is implemented to enable the Kila event. Kila emerges as both a nexus for intercultural mutuality and as a facilitator of distinct opportunities for Gija social and cultural maintenance and recreation.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"321-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12511","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"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. 92. US$12.99 (pbk). ISBN 9781509555062By Bruno Latour. How to inhabit the earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong. Translated by Julie Rose, London: Polity Press. 2024. pp. 103. US$16.95 (pbk). ISBN 9781505559473","authors":"Hans A. Baer","doi":"10.1111/taja.12508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12508","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Bruno Latour, a prolific philosopher, anthropologist, sociologist, and science and technology studies scholar, entered the debate on the global ecological crisis with the publication of &lt;i&gt;The Politics of Nature&lt;/i&gt; (Harvard University Press, &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;). He became a fellow at the ecomodernist Breakthrough Institute, penning a frequently cited 2011 article in its journal calling for humanity to love its technological monsters like we love our children instead of rejecting them. He called for management of the environment rather than seeking to keep it in a pristine state. In his Distinguished Lecture at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in December 2014, he asserted that geologists had presented anthropologists with a gift by positioning the &lt;i&gt;anthropos&lt;/i&gt; centre stage in the guise of the Anthropocene as the main geological force, thus superseding the Holocene. Latour went on to publish &lt;i&gt;Facing Gaia&lt;/i&gt; (Polity, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) and &lt;i&gt;Down to Earth&lt;/i&gt; (Polity, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;), followed by &lt;i&gt;On the Emergence of an Ecological Class&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;) (co-authored with Nikolaj Schultz), and &lt;i&gt;How to Inhabit the Earth&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;), which is based on interviews that he had with Nicolas Truong. These last two books before his death in October 2022 are the subjects of my review essay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;On the Emergence of an Ecological Class&lt;/i&gt; consists of 10 chapters; there is also a postface in the English edition. Latour and Schultz resist reliance on the notion of class struggle in seeking to delineate the role of a global &lt;i&gt;ecological class&lt;/i&gt;, which they do not define as such. Instead, they seek to outline the tasks that the ecological class needs to undertake, noting that the ‘ecological class is still afraid of not knowing how to position itself in its relationship to the struggles of the past two centuries’ (p. 8), because it fears that it is not sufficiently left-wing. In seeking to provide guidance on which direction the ecological class should pursue, they delineate a broad and diffuse litany of recommendations. These include: (1) defining the direction of its own history (p. 10); defining itself in ‘relation to the material conditions of its existence’ (p. 11); furnishing ‘equipment to change direction’ (p. 19) in light of the grim reality that the Anthropocene and Great Acceleration that entailed the ‘rapid acceleration of systems of production destabilised Earth systems and climate systems’ (p. 13); adding to the ‘relations of production engendering practices that have always defined the exterior of human activity’ (p. 23); persuading sectors of old classes, including the working class, to ‘form alliances with it in a bid to find other ways of promoting their interests’ (p. 28); and critically examining the role of the state in supporting an ‘international order based on development and globalisation’ (p. 69).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contrasting it with a declining union movement, Latour and Schultz ma","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"338-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12508","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The privilege of being banal: Art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By Elayne Oliphant, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2021","authors":"Elizabeth Reinhardt","doi":"10.1111/taja.12483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12483","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 3","pages":"157-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}