This paper is directed to two immediate purposes which lie beyond anthropology as practiced within academia: to contribute to the ongoing dialogue within the discipline on applied anthropological engagement in and with the Australian native title and Indigenous development arenas; and secondly to add to our conversations with Indigenous people themselves on what it means to be Indigenous in con...

one of the major categories of the iranian constitutional revolution is modernists (motajadedin) who are referred to variously as “adaptionists”, “apologists”, “syncretists” and “revisionists”. motajadedin are devout and knowledgeable iranians whose mission is threefold: first, to define iranian identity by bringing out of the fundamentals in rational and liberal manner; second, to emphasize, a...

The transformation of society towards modernity and the attendant socio-economic challenges it has imposed on African societies have compelled insensitive traditional structures of governance to hijack traditional customs and practices to serve their ulterior motives. Thanksgiving to chiefs (kubika chiutsi, in Shona language), is one such traditional practice that has been manipulated to serve ...