Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 

About: Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Indigenous. It has an ISSN identifier of 1444-2213. Over the lifetime, 684 publications have been published receiving 6858 citations. The journal is also known as: TAPJA.

Nahe biti: The philosophy and process of grassroots reconciliation (and justice) in East Timor

Abstract: UNTAET and the East Timorese have pursued formal reconciliation processes as part of the nation-building effort in newly independent East Timor. These formal reconciliation processes aim for closure and operate in the realm of national politics. In the meantime local communities have been dealing with the issues of reintegrating refugees and rebuilding social relationships through an inventive adaptation of traditional practices of reconciliation. In contrast to the formal elite-level strategies, the grassroots strategies are more concerned with process than formal outcomes.

Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism

Abstract: Economies of Abandonment is a critical examination of the governance of social difference within contemporary political economy in Australia and the United States. Aligning the book with the genera...

Where's our development? Landowner aspirations and environmentalist agendas in Western Solomon Islands

Abstract: (2001). ‘Where's our development?’. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 44-67.

The modernising of the Indigenous domestic moral economy: Kinship, accumulation and household composition

Abstract: Une comprehension adequate des raisons de la resilience, chez les Aborigenes d'Australie, de l'economie morale du partage et de la parente necessite d'aller au-dela d'une conception economiciste de ce phenomene comme strategie de subsistance ou de gestion des risques et d'expliquer pourquoi il est etroitement imbrique dans la pratique quotidienne. Les AA. proposent un modele qui rend compte de la centralite, et donc de la resilience du partage dans l'economie morale domestique aborigene, et qui permet egalement de mieux comprendre certains changements socioeconomiques significatifs qui caracterisent la vie contemporaine des Aborigenes d'Australie.

Unpaid Wages: Local Narratives and the Imagination of the Nation

Abstract: This paper explores how official nationalist discourse is appropriated and reworked in local constructions It draws on ethnographic fieldwork in the district of Aileu, East Timor, conducted before the Indonesian invasion and after the 1999 referendum Bridging these two periods is a Mambai narrative tradition about a Christ-like figure named Tat Felis, who comes to Aileu with the first missionaries and is persecuted by local chiefs In different ways, the paper argues, Mambai have entwined the story of the suffering inflicted on him by their ancestral chiefs with the suffering endured by the people in the nationalist struggle Such narrativised ordeals evoke a cultural code of reciprocity in which whoever suffers to bring something forth must be repaid In referencing their own enduring obligations to Tat Felis, people implicitly or explicitly remind nationalist leaders that the nation was purchased with their blood