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    Analyzing Multiculturalism Today
    HAGE, G (Sage Publications, 2008)
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    Moving towards the mean: dilemmas of assimilation and improvement
    KOWAL, E ; Cowlishaw, G ; Lea, T ; Kowal, E (Charles Darwin University Press, 2006)
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    The Australian Dominative Medical System: A Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger Society
    Baer, H (WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2008-12)
    This paper posits a working or tentative model of medical pluralism, a pattern in which multiple medical sub‐systems co‐exist, or what I term the Australian dominative medical system. I argue that whereas the Australian medical system with its various medical sub‐systems was pluralistic, that is more or less on an equal footing, in the nineteenth century, by the early twentieth century it became a plural or dominative one in the sense that biomedicine came to clearly dominate other medical sub‐systems. This paper also explores the growing interest of biomedicine and the Australian Government in complementary medicine to which Australians have increasingly turned over the course of the past three decades or so.
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    Fire, flood, fish and the uncertainty paradox
    MINNEGAL, M ; DWYER, P (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
    When the planet was created, the areas of the greatest biodiversity also happened to be the areas where mankind wants to reap the best reward of resources. It is not actually that complicated when you think about it, because where there is biodiversity happens to be where the resources are and it is where we happen to want to get them from. As it happened, the uranium was put in the middle of Kakadu and gold is in places where it is hard to get out. I think the creator of the universe decided to make things very interesting for environment ministers down the track. That is the reality… It is only a natural thing. (Senator Ian Campbell, Federal Minister for the Environment; Hansard 2006: 68–69)
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    Police and thieves, gunmen and drunks: Problems with men and problems with society in Papua New Guinea
    Macintyre, M (AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-08)
    The image of the ‘man with a gun’ is pervasive in Papua New Guinea and connotes not only the state's capacity to use force, but that of men to resist and subvert state control. At the same time, the association of beer and marijuana with both modernity and violent masculine behaviours provides the context, the justification and the forms of homosocial activities involving violence. In this paper, I explore the ambiguities surrounding guns as instruments of state force and as symbols of masculine autonomy in so‐called ‘weak states’ by examining some stories about the ways that guns are acquired for illegal activities. In particular, I shall discuss the ways that guns and beer are instruments of violence and potency for police, tribal warriors and criminals as well as some of the means whereby men gain access to new forms of power. Drawing on ethnographic research with young men in New Ireland Province, the paper will deal specifically with the ways that adolescent boys construe ‘modern masculinity’.
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    Refusing to sing: Gender, kinship and patriliny in macedonia
    Schubert, V (Wiley, 2005-01-01)
    The issue of whether formal kinship structures and sentiments reflect the reality of social relations was of particular concern to specialists at the height of the kinship debates in the 1960s and 1970s, as it continues to be in some contemporary studies. So too, the classifications ‘patrilineal’ or ‘matrilineal’ have clearly been shown to be problematic given that there are multiple levels of discourse and relational and ideational realities in any given society. For many contemporary kinship specialists in fact no simple correlation can be made between type of descent system and actual social relations, especially relations between men and women. However, some anthropologists continue to argue that patrilineal kinship systems are somehow indicative of control or domination by men or, put inversely, of women's lack of power and authority. It is argued in this paper that even where the formal kinship structures and ideological discourses are dominated by agnation as appears to be the case in south Slav societies generally, and Macedonian in particular, this is not automatically mirrored in gender relations between men and women. In short, there is a long leap from patriliny to patriarchy.
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    Women working in the mining industry in Papua New Guinea: a case study from Lihir
    MACINTYRE, M ; Lahiri-Dutt, K ; Macintyre, M (Ashgate, 2006)
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    Sorcery and Witchcraft
    PATTERSON, M ; Scupin, R (Pearson Education, 2008)
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    The politics of the gap: Indigenous Australians, liberal multiculturalism, and the end of the self-determination era
    Kowal, E (WILEY, 2008-09)
    ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, “self‐determination” has been the dominant trope for expressing national aspirations for Indigenous Australians. Through the principles of self‐determination, the liberal multicultural state has attempted to deliver postcolonial justice to its first peoples. In this new century, the sheen of the self‐determination era has faded. Once heralded as the antidote to the racist assimilation era, it is now depicted as the cause of social ills. In this article, I draw on an ethnographic study of White antiracists working in Indigenous health in northern Australia to analyze the brand of liberal rationality that dominated the discourse of the self‐determination era. By engaging with a “tribe” of White people who identify with the aims of the self‐determination era, we can decipher the logic of self‐determination as an instrument of the liberal state and better understand the internal contradictions and ambiguities that have led to its recent demise.
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