Fieldwork Finally, we approach the port after days sitting on the narrowbench of the canoe, watchingwalls of vegetation bending over the rivers that zigzag the jungle, guarded by taller trees behind, with their skirt of shade. The scene is similarly beautifully dynamic under the changing light of the day, in the jungles of Venezuela or Peru. We recognize the canoe port, and the trail leading up...

1 end of October. But other media outlets which pride themselves on their commitment to the serious discussion of indigenous issues, such as The Australian and the ABC, have presented a succession of laudatory commentaries on the judgment without examining whether Noongar people really had a sound basis for their native title claim. As an anthropologist who gave evidence in the Single Noongar c...

In light of the retrospective theme of this Annual Meeting, it is fitting that we pay homage to Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917). His appointment as Reader in Anthropology at Oxford in 1884 was the first academic appointment of an anthropologist qua anthropologist in the English-speaking world. And in his two volume classic, Primitive Culture (1871), Tylor, as Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952:150-15...