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Fieldworks: Ethnographic Practices of Appropriation in Art and Anthropology Taking Time: Exploring the Interplay Between Image and Identity Drawing on anatomies Pseudo-anthropology, fetish, fake and ready-made Concepts of ownership and originality in Kazakh crafts Choreography of the Hands: Keeping and transmitting knowledge amongst lace makers in Central Slovakia From baskets to full bodies: Agency among Aboriginal fibre artists in Australia On Peacocks, Eiffel Towers and Jacquard Machines: appropriating tradition and innovation in two Indian silk clusters The Australian 'skills shortage' and apprenticeship in rural trades Artisan Industrialists: Learning from and Informing Ethnographic Praxis Speeds, Feeds and Variables - a Metaphor for the Modern Apprenticeship On the ownership of policy about property treated as property with properties; or, how Indigenous housing guidelines became contraband property 'Policy Societies': policy, property, and owned persons. Guaranteeing Employment to Rural India Universities as 'self-owning' subjects of governance? Who Owns Government Schools? An Ethnographic Study The invisible hand of the State: Does anyone know who owns this policy? Who owns state universities? Policy and appropriation in a New Zealand context Explorations of policy as text and context; or, what the notion of 'ownership' tends to silence Mediating Indigenous knowledges with bureaucratic imperatives: Constituting Australian Indigenous health policy The Two-Way Appropriation of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Conservation Policies: the World Heritage sites of Tongariro in New Zealand and Laponia in Sweden The contradictory nature and outcomes of stakeholder models of urban policy ownership in Salvador, Bahia Selling collective policy ownership: Bolivarian propaganda and Venezuelan media wars Ecological, cultural and social flows: relations to country in the Riverine Domestic moral economies of the borderlands: an analysis of transformations in the social relationships between Torres Strait Islanders and Papua New Guineans Christianity, Personhood, and the Domestic Moral Economy at Galiwin'ku (Northern Territory) "Nothing ever changes": historical ecology and environmental memory in Arnhem Land, Australia. Innovation in Arnhem Land: Archaeology and Donald Thomson's collection of spears and spearthrowers from northern Australia Demand sharing and unsolicited giving: Addressing an apparent paradox with recent data from Arnhem land, north Australia The Demand-Share Market: Indigenous economies and Aboriginal art Demand sharing, nutrition, and Warlpiri health: the social and economic strategies of food choice Some recent changes in the organisation of a Warlpiri initiation ceremony Women, Fire and 'Fiends Escaped from Hades': Revisiting Central Australian 'Fire Ceremonies' Constructing visible difference: towards an anthropological demography of Indigenous Australian populations The "narcissism of minor differences": the appropriation of the other's difference by native title claimant groups in indigenous Australia. Indigenous Education and Citizenship: Ethnographically Investigating State Appropriations Japanese Anthropology and Nicolas Peterson Citizenship and Aboriginal differences: discrepancies between the sovereign and the relational self. Peterson's Impartye: A short Appreciation The plight of Malawian orphans: A need for expert appropriations of childhood? When Children's Drawings Hail Theories: Enfolding Multiple Accounts as Ethical Anthropology Hokkaido preschools: appropriating the distant other, ignoring their own? Boarding school and the appropriation of childhood? Longhouse children in Sarawak, East Malaysia Traditions of Childhood and Normativity in Australia's Western Desert Children, sexuality and corporeal appropriation in Kimberley Aboriginal settlements Culture as Therapy: Improving Aboriginal Children in Western Sydney Narratives of (mis)appropriation, a paediatric hospital and the cultural logic of the child protection unit The ABC of Autism: Parents and Pedagogy in Australia He tikanga hurihuri: Maori communities and their churches 1830-1860 Samoan houses and their agency Three Iconoclastic Episodes:Rematerialising Eastern Polynesia Tivaivai and the Rematerialising of 'Value': Colonialism, Social Change and The Contemporary Ceremonial Economy Concrete effects: the expected and unexpected agency of religious architecture Baptism of Fire Artefacts, Artefacts, collectors and the definition of a 'region' in the tropics of North Queensland Pastel memories: the Carrolup collection and contemporary Nyungar identity in South-West Western Australia Introducing Performing Nature Land, culture & identity: comparative studies of indigeneity & belonging in society and nature Tree of life—tree of death: Eucalyptus in a changing South African landscape An improper nature: introduced animals and 'species cleansing' in Australia The nature of belonging: The making of an authentic Australian river Appropriations of nature and land in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa Contesting nature, contesting identities: claiming ownership of a wilderness area Performing the narrative self on New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands Hunters on Strike - Facts, ethics and aesthetics in reindeer hunting and management The nature of salmon and the image of the wild: Performing nature in Norwegian salmon aquaculture Disowning Cultures, Disentangling Natures Lost somewhere between Sweden and the UK Making custom and discovering law in Papua New Guinea high courts Replication and transformation in a sung narrative genre of Highland Papua New Guinea Carbon cultures, CDM projects & travelling packages Disempowerment and climate change inaction in the Marshall Islands The General and Regional Scope of Anthropological Research on Climate Change Adaptation The role of the motor vehicle-oil-military complex in generating war and global warming: a political ecological perspective Anthropology, Resource development and the appropriation of knowledge Owing and disowning aid: Projects, partnerships and patronage on Siquijor Island, Philippines Who directs development? The contested interface of state authority and donor conditionality in Laos Whose ministry is it? Owning church charity works Misappropriations of aid: the case of Italian-NIgerian anti-trafficking projects Stealing from the Victims: State, NGO, and Media Negotiations over Human Rights Coverage in Mexico Appropriating Development, Appropriating Modernity Gift and commodity relations in pro-poor private sector development interventions: a case study of rice seed companies in Cambodia Transmission as a value Alternative Values: The meaning of land in Australian alternative spiritualities Landscapes of life and death Mediating relations - making land work Leaving the farm Conflicts in Ownership and Appropriation over Communal Land and Resources Appropriation of coastal space and community formation on a Philippine Island The Double Movement of Property Rights and Rental Regimes in Papua New Guinea The Value of Land and local State Formation in rural China Contesting the value of land in rural Kyrgyzstan Redeveloping the Value of Land: a South African Case Study of How Land Reform Changes Local Valuations of Land From Sacrifice to Citizenship: Indenture and the Politics of Pain among Sanatan Hindus in Fiji 'Strong European Emotions': European citizenship and visual pleasure "Sakit Hati": Emotion, the Senses, and Cannibalism in Discourses on Ethnic Violence in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Embodying Underdevelopment: Phenotype, Cosmopolitan Aspirations and Underdevelopment on Simbo, Western Solomon Islands The Rasa of Belonging: Youth and Post Colonial Timor Leste Bird sounds and senses of being Where fertilty and mortality collide: governing maternal mortality in out-of-the-way places Governing the senses: how New Zealand's biculturalism works through the practice of a Māori healing tradition A Healthy Sense of Reality: Native Medical Practitioners' Articulations of Entitlement and Responsibility in Colonial Vanuatu Local and global citizenship in the haemophilia community in NZ P14 Appropriating the (in)appropriate: rethinking pageants, contests and the anthropology of emblems Appropriating the Feminine: A Queer Muslim Fashion Parade MissAppropriate: Queering the Queens in Colombia. Appropriating modernity: beauty pageants and spectacle in a Thai Buddhist monastery The Appropriation of the Improper "The thinking woman's Legolas": appropriations of an online parody "You Thought We Wouldn't Notice" : Graffiti as Art Form, Vandalism, Campaign and Culture. On having achieved appropriation: the anak berprestasi of Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia "I was instructed not to talk about [those things], but I was never forbidden to do". Relativising the GDR state Distilling the Anzac Spirit: the merchandizing and consumption in New Zealand of war images Myth, folklore and Kitsch: the Case of the Black Dog of Bungay Performing memory and transforming history in Australian Aboriginal activism Pictures of the Old People: Lamalama participation in technologies of memory The Use of Memory as a source of Identity and Authenticity in Crypto-Jewish Culture Who owns a common past? Reflections on a collaborative cultural heritage project Contemporary socialities and historical perspectives on differentiation and affiliation among Aboriginal families Making and Avoiding Trouble: Kinship and the Management of Conflict When is a cousin a mother? Skewing strategies and skewed systems Resource conflict and the control of anthropological advice at the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea Kinship Matters in Vanuatu Recontextualizing anthropological knowledge 'Conjuring Up' Strathernograms Through Performativity The apologetics of an apology and an apologia The sacredness of the gift: Personal partibility and sacrifice in Melanesian Christianity Selves and Intersubjectivity: Relationality in Psychoanalysis and Strathern's theory of sociality Dividual Places on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu The intangible wealth of partible persons Beyond Price, Value or Worth: Reflections on the theme of investment in 'No Money on Our Skins' 'Cutting the Network': Mobilisations of ethnicity/appropriations of power in multinational corporations Ambivalent middlemen: representations of the countryside among agricultural experts in western Poland Digging in: Disappearing villages in coal-affected communities in the Hunter Valley Feral pig hunting and feral pig management in the wet tropics of north Queensland Barossa Dreaming: Food, Festivals and Fetishism in Rural Australia Gifting the Self: the metro-rural idyll and ideal reflexive individuality Producing the Appropriated Rural: ni-Vanuatu Labour on Central Otago Vineyards Rural Health - on whose terms? Beyond Appearances: Organicism and Mysticism in South German Rurality Appropriating Rurality for Military Subjectivities: New Zealand Servicemen in the 1991 Persian Gulf War Anthropology and the state: what kind of handmaiden? Modelling Culture for the Military When power looks weak: acts of appropriation inside government Who controls the work?: Appropriation and restoration the Tokelau village work force Structures of controlling the uncontrollable? An ethnography of a newspaper editorial office Saltwater, Fresh Water and the Birth of a Nation A nuclear blot on the horizon: contestations of land and sea between the nuclear state and local fishing communities in Tamil Nadu Indigenous claims and shifting patterns of ownership: Maori appropriation of the Foreshore and Seabed The nature of coastlines: among wind mills and reindeer 'Our submissions come from the heart': Becoming Inc. without compromising who you are Appropriating the Corporation, Transforming Landscape and Escaping Taxes: The Global Real Estate Industry in Vanuatu Prayers and performance indicators: efficacy and hierarchy in Vanuatu provincial government Playing the Advocacy Game: New Settlers and the Ethno-Politics of Successful Community Advocacy Strakja: depictions of organisation and community in Vanuatu. Making a Mark: value creation in an Aboriginal art dealership Contested categories: conceptualizing an Australian Aboriginal photography in the early 21st century Biculturalism in practice: a case study of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa One year on, The Northern Territory Intervention Tabu Shell Money as Cultural Property for the Government: conversion and appropriation through shell money bank Saints, Ancestors and Self-government among a Greek speaking community in South Italy. Projects of Hope: Women Organising for Grassroots Community Development in Kolkata (India) and Lae (Papua New Guinea) Project Title: Changing Culture and Gendered Identities: A Study among Female Employees at work in Call Centres in Bangalore Transitional spaces and ambivalent identities: Korean adoptees (re)inventing themselves Celebrants and changing rites of passage: what changes and what stays the same? A short cyber-ethnography of international gestational surrogates "We don't go to heaven via Jakarta": Trauma and destiny in post-conflict Aceh Cronulla 2005: Sons of Beaches, Incarnations of Australian Agnosia Contemporary Community Life of the Austronesian-Speaking Amis of Taiwan Bringing the world home: understanding young backpackers' adaptations and appropriations of 'local' knowledges, spiritualities and world views Relationships of belonging and foreignness on Vella Lavella, Western Solomon Islands More Like Ourselves: Ethics, Representation and Commerce in Indigenous Tourism Embedded enterprise: Issues surrounding cultural tourism development for diasporan Pacific cultures The commodification of Dogon culture: recycling, emulating, faking and displaying material identities. Tourists and the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia: Who's Exploiting Whom? The touristic packaging of Sydney 'Dreamings' at the expense of local Aboriginal custodial knowledge Experiments in Inuit Tourism: the Eastern Canadian Arctic How Maori cultural tourism businesses create sustainable wealth: the five well-beings model Indigenous culture in a 'real' Embera community of tourist professionals in Panama Maori cultural tourism or just being ourselves? Validating cultural inheritance Plundering the Golden Temple: From Princes to Paupers in Post Nation-State Varanasi Toilets, Temples and Holymen: the politics of place in Banaras, India Picnic on the beach of Cox's Bazar: claiming a public space or an exercise of citizenship by a Bangladeshi minority? Can't Find Nothing on the Radio: Access to the Radio Frequency Spectrum in Nepal Iconic Dharavi: Slum as contested space Appropriation and acculturation: the theft of 'Islamic' identity by the state in Pakistan Leaving home for home: southeast Asian boarders and their conceptions of home 'The Philippines welcomes you!' - hospitality as industry; sex tourism and expatriation in a Filipino community The Shuf mountains as 'Junblatt's place'. Hospitality and the political construction of regional estates in Lebanon High country hospitality Culture and Property in the Waitangi Tribunal Let's Abandon Intellectual Property Rights "Like a Second Skin": A Step Towards a Sui Generis Protection of Intangible Cultural Property in Fiji Appropriation of plant related knowledge under the EPC – an illustration with a European patent on the processing of Teff flour "Compensation" and "Self-determination": A Contradiction? The Impossibility of Invention: Designer Fashion , Copyright, and Cultural Appropriations The Emergence of Australian Settler Capitalism in the 19th Century and the Disintegration/Integration of Aboriginal Societies: Hybridization and Local Evolution Within the World Market Conflicts over property at King George Sound The appropriation of Aboriginal land and labour at Karunjie Station, north western Australia Dingo scalping and the frontier economy in the north west of South Australia The Torres Strait pearling industry: sheltered workshop or cultural hothouse? Realities, simulacra, and the appropriation of Aboriginality in Kakadu’s tourism 'Who you is? Work and Identity in Aboriginal NSW' The Aboriginal Heritage Industry:Ka-Boom or Busted! Aboriginal Entrepreneurialism in the context of land use (mining) agreements 'Max' and 'Wardy': Masculine porters appropriating gentleness and solicitude in a Scottish hospital FOR SALE: housing market, labour market and community relations in Endcliffe, Sheffield Cultural Politics and the White Working Classes in Britain Museum mediated memories and the urban working class Ancestors, class and contingency Interracial genealogies and memories of slavery 'Knowing', being and self in post-industrial South Yorkshire Theorizing the Aesthetics of Diaspora: towards a translocal field of distinction? "Being in the world": Ontology, Aesthetics and the construction of Diaspora Subjectivities among Ghanaian migrants in London Balinese Aesthetics in Postcolonial Netherlands Production and reproduction of locality: shifting inhabited spaces of Filipino migrants and their families Appropriating the Black Part of the White City: Filipinos' Making of Home in Tel Aviv Bollywood: Transnational Dialogues and the aesthetics of diaspora Imaging, Performance and Ownership in the Indo-Caribbean Neo-Lockeian post-war reconstruction and transnational aesthetic intervention Owning a national dance that only exists in migration Ownership and Appropriation of Artifacts: A Case Study of Recent Events in Bangladesh Epistemo-patrimony: Speaking, and owning, in the Indian diaspora. Reclaiming the past: re-appropriation and the ethos of memory in post-authoritarian Chilean cinema 'Dancing off-stage: Nationalism and its 'Minor Practices' in Tamil Nadu, India 'Never Again': 'Genocidal' Cosmopolitanism, Affective Citizenship and the Bangladesh Liberation War Museum Actualized Affinities: The Nation's Memory as Accumulating Artifacts and Appropriating Aesthetics from the Times of Reconstruction Dis-possessing the Past: Contesting sites of sacrifice in post-apartheid South Africa Building a "Taj Mahal" in Peppermint Grove: contesting notions of belonging in an upper-class suburb Introduction Local Entitlements: Pacific Islands Migrant Youth in Australia Land and plants appropriation during migration. A case-study in Vanuatu Making their Home in Australia: St Joseph's Anglo-Indian Rest Home 'We're not expats; we are not migrants; we are Sauliaçoise': laying claim to belonging in rural France Constructing House and Home: Residency, Locality, and Social Mobility in Santo Domingo's Barrios Ambiguous Foreigners:Neighbours share more than geographical space 'Indian hot or Kiwi hot?': Appropriating the local in constructions of Kiwi Indian identities Provincial Pakeha women's practices in 'their place' - creating belonging Negotiating the "local" in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania Negotiating religious expression and secular belonging: a case of Bosnian migrant experiences in Australia Introduction- circulation and vitality The De-valuing of Circulation and Contradictions in the Rise of Property on Woodlark Island, formerly Muyuw, Milne Bay Provence, Papua New Guinea The values of traditional dances in Kamchatka and Alaska Christening 'drama' in two Pacific island communities Conflation and critique: transnational articulations of artistic value in international development. Free Software and a vitality of circulation "Expressive Heritage and Cultural Revitalisation: Haka and Kapa haka in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand" Exceeding appropriation: meanders in the field of Waiwai translations Dreaming in thread: from ritual to art and property(s) between Shifting relational possibilities by making culture a resource for peace: some observations from Bougainville Identity and Indigeneity in Urban Performance Two way appropriation and beyond: Aboriginality and Organisation in South Western Sydney. Appropriation, Reappropriation and the Maori Struggle for Rangatiratanga/Autonomy 1945-1960s. The ownership and control of 'Gender Mainstreaming': feminist transformation or neo-colonial appropriation? Force of circumstance: feminist discourse in a matrilineal society Expectations for couple relationships among Maori and Pacific peoples living in New Zealand. To have and to hold: the appropriation of women's llama-herding expertise Fluid Forms: owning water in Australia Appropriation of urban space and water supply in informal urban settlements of Papua New Guinea Enlivening development: Water management in the post-conflict city of Baucau, Timor Leste The water is ours. Local conflicts on ownership and appropriation of irrigation water Down the drain: control and ownership of the 'problem' of storm water Creating 'Un-natural' Groupings to Appropriate an Ancestor Customs of customs: social production of disorder through order Disordered social movements: info-technologies, public emotions and the network swarm Creative derivatives within bare markets The Witches Have Surveillance Cameras The village that wasn't there: the narrative appropriation of a tourist destination The Politics of Emptiness: On Space, Agency, and Appropriation. Appropriations in the air: hot-air ballooning and changing tourism relationships Waitangi Day, Okains Bay: Contest and Co-operation in the Celebration of New Zealand's National Day." Ownership and Appropriation in Dance Creation: A Process of Trial and Error and Collaborative Minds Voices from the margins? Women at the footy Appropriating Authentic Practice: Competing Discourses of 'being there', 'having been there' and 'virtually being there' Appropriating Fish, Appropriating Fishermen: Tradable Permits, Natural Resources and Existential Uncertainty Jumping fish. rice and sago: the language of ecological risk and appropriation in rural Papua New Guinea Responses to heightened ecological risk among fishers in the Philippines Risky Places: Climate Change Discourse and the Transformation of Place The land Was Smashed: Who Will Fix it? Board of Pollution: The new search for the perfect wave Living side-by-side: discourses on the meaning of space and belonging for fly-in-fly-out and residential workers in a remote mining town in Australia The 'good life' at work: 'energy' and 'skills' as competing parameters of wellbeing in contemporary China Urban dreams, village realities and corporate funding in Lihir, Papua New Guinea Work, Kinship and Material Goods: Pursuing the Good Life in Londolovit Township, Lihir Forty Years on… Migrant Lives in West New Britain The pursuit of happiness through work in the logging concessions of the Western Province, PNG. Ideal Homes and Dashed Hopes on Misima 1985-2006. Coding memory: Whose culture does it serve, anyway? The appropriation of Inuit heritage - past and present perspectives Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; right is where the movement is. Words Escape Us Throwing Spears at http://www.spearchuckasart.com Rethinking appropriation of the indigenous: A Romanticist approach to cultural imperialism within neo-Pagan communities Engaging with a 'global' morality: the moralised language of protection in the issues surrounding the illicit transactions of antiquities Cosmopolitanism, Ownership and the Appropriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Property Rahui in oriental polynesia, an ethno historic perspective Plan de gestion des espaces maritimes et rahui à Teahupoo (Tahiti) Evolution and institutional re-appropriation of the rahui on the atoll of Fakarava in the Tuamotu Arpchipelago: From a traditional management to moderns' models Protection of Natural Resources through a Sacred Prohibition: The Rahui in Rapa From land to book and finally to money, a history of the sense of property of the Romanians in the XXIst century Buginese super-natural resource tenure arrangements in the shrimp frontier of the Mahakam delta, East Kalimantan, Indonesia Failing State tenure arrangements for the Mahakam Delta, East Kalimantan, Indonesia Revisiting the Jesuit reductions in terms of their indigenous communities: missionary utopias and colonial settlements in frontier Brazil 1550-1750 Medical Tourism in India: For richer or poorer? Desiring and performing carnivalesque bodies: emancipation and appropriation in the transatlantic market of sex and culture in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil "It's only a game, so if you don't like it just leave!": Discourses on 'rape' in Second Life and the appropriation of public leisure cyber-space Analysis of opinions and experiences of Australians involved in disaster response overseas to enhance effectiveness of humanitarian assistance 'The Dolphin and the sextant': Traditional knowledge and modernity in Polynesian navigation Dr. Augustin Krämer's Die Samoa Inseln, a critical history on an oceanic-ethnological classic Appropriating Spiritual Guardianship in the Periphery: Bugis Migrants' Reconceptualisation of Lindu Locality (Central Sulawesi, Indonesia) Disowning Creative Authority in the Production of Syncretic Cosmogonic Myths in Sikka, Eastern Indonesia Of dragons and demonesses: Tibetan oral myths recast as history Shifting Spaces: An Ethnographic Account of a House Church in Shanghai, China The Appropriation of Biblical Knowledge in Traditional Ritual Format among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia Owning religion in Banyuwangi: NU Islam and Beatty’s Varieties of Javanese Religion Plasticization and its Discontents: The Alchemy of Waste in the Construction of China's Capitalist-Communist Identity. Appropriation, obligation and exchange in East Timor. Satisfaction in a horse: The assimilation of an exotic animal into Māori customary usage Ownership, Appropriation and the Reproduction Cycle of Afro-descendent Houses in Salvador, Bahia Residence, intimacy and resilience: urban poor housing and kinship in Tatalon 1953-2007 Shoestring Democracy: Private Governance in Coops and Gated Communities in New York City Appropriating the Self: The Experience of Self-Sovereignty Return of 'The Native': Imagining and Reimagining Identity as Iterative Appropriation of Culture and Space Is it appropriation or exploitation of sameness? Victimization among migrants and immigrants in Asia and the Pacific Mediation, peacebuilding and the intercultural: native title and Aboriginal Australia Pollution, politics, hpon & panty power in today’s Burma/ Myanmar Property, memory and emotions in narratives about village forests Owning Community-Based Ecotourism Development: Business Va’avanua Ownership and Marginalisation in a Punjab Village Digital dreaming: The practice of digital storytelling with Indigenous youth Ownership of knowledge: issues affecting indigenous education and pedagogy in Australia and Melanesia Teaching tutors to teach social anthropology: an Otago learning experience Stethoscapes: the ethnographic ear and listening to anthropological knowledge.