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{"title":"Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology: Explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible. By Lorraine Mortimer, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019, 347 pp. ISBN: 9780253043948","authors":"Holly High","doi":"10.1111/taja.12472","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12472","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The website rogersandall.com<sup>1</sup> helpfully informs us that the original title of Mortimer's book, when it was at manuscript stage, was <i>Letting Things Live: Roger Sandall's Films Meet Contemporary Anthropology</i>. This is a much more apt title for this book, and it is regrettable if it was IUP that requested the change. The original title is a useful clarification for anyone wanting to read and engage with this book: the main argument of this book is in support of a style of film, an anthropology, and an orientation towards the world which “lets things live.” It is a plea to make room for moments free from editorialising, abstraction, or judgement, moments that allow some sense of the rich fulsomeness of life as lived. This move towards “letting things live” is an increasingly articulated feature of contemporary anthropology, as seen for example in the thinking of Stengers and Haraway. And it was also, Mortimer argues, pioneered by the beautiful observational films Sandall made (even if these films predated this theoretical turn). Mortimer takes Sandall's films as a core theme only by way of example of her much broader argument about how observational film, ethnography, and anthropology might best go on today, even (or especially) given the troubling situations and pained histories that so plainly frame our lives and works.</p><p>Readers will have to look elsewhere for an account of Sandall's life or his written works. They will not have to look far: the website mentioned above contains an archive of his writings, which towards the end of his career appeared mostly in conservative periodicals, and often took the form of satire and withering dismissals of mainstream anthropology and left-wing politics. A lengthy Obituary was published in <i>Quadrant</i>. Say no more.</p><p>At first, it seemed strange to me that Mortimer persisted in this project even though she differed so profoundly from Sandall in politics and understanding of anthropology: why give this detractor any more oxygen? And why do women so willingly and often do the work of memorialising dead men? But as I read, I realised that by steadfastly attending to what she loved in Sandall's work (his beautiful and observational films), even when there was so much that might raise one's ire elsewhere in his work, Mortimer was again demonstrating her vision for an anthropology that “lets things live”. She could have told a “killer story” about Sandall, finding clever ways to debunk and dismiss this so-called “father” of Australian ethnographic film, in the same way Sandall himself told “killer stories” about his own discipline later in his life. But Mortimer takes her readers along a different path. She leads us there not by devoting long passages to agonising over her textual choices, but by showing us her vision of anthropology by going ahead and doing it. She lets Sandall's films live in her prose. Sandall's films, Mortimer insists, were “so good at capturing the tacit and expr","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 2","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12472","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46545640","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":"Fragrant FrontierBy Sarah Turner; Annuska Derks; Jean-François Rousseau (Eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press. 2022. xv, 230pp., photos, index, figures, maps, tables. A$ 43. ISBN: 9788776943141","authors":"Cynthia Hunter","doi":"10.1111/taja.12474","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 2","pages":"135-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44837612","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":"The last language on earth: Linguistic utopianism in the PhilippinesBy Piers Kelly. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. xxxi + 291. (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-19-750992-0, USD $39.95","authors":"Jian Shan","doi":"10.1111/taja.12473","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 2","pages":"132-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41665326","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":"Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development","authors":"Sally Babidge, Nathália Dothling, Sarah Thomson, Tyler Riordan, Kirsty Wissing, Ainá Sant'Anna Fernandes, Sara Mejía Muñoz","doi":"10.1111/taja.12464","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"30-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41337059","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":"In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua By Sophie Chao, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022","authors":"Sophie Chao","doi":"10.1111/taja.12463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50135373","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":"Powerful things: The history and theory of sacred objects By Karl-Heinz Kohl, (2020). Canon Pyon, Sean Kingston Publishing, xi+224 pp., foreword, index (hardback), A$110, ISBN: 978–1–912,385-24-9","authors":"Kathleen Openshaw","doi":"10.1111/taja.12462","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"55-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729317","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":"Multispecies violence, ontological murk, epistemic resistance: Insights from the West Papuan plantation frontier–A response","authors":"Sophie Chao","doi":"10.1111/taja.12468","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12468","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"39-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46639825","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":"The place of dreams in In the Shadow of the Palms","authors":"Eve Vincent","doi":"10.1111/taja.12466","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"35-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49326396","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":"Picking our way through modernity","authors":"Warwick Anderson","doi":"10.1111/taja.12465","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"33-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43268254","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":"Reflections","authors":"Jakelin Troy","doi":"10.1111/taja.12467","DOIUrl":"10.1111/taja.12467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"34 1","pages":"37-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43178660","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}