This is the first exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the
forces that helped shaped its formation. In his new work, Geoffrey Gray reveals the struggle to …

… My greatest debt is to Joan Gray, for tolerating me and this book, for reading successive
drafts of key parts - and sometimes for reminding me that there was more to the nineteenth …

… either spending too long examining alternative (to Geoff's way of looking anyway) meta-theories
or spending too long puzzle-solving for questions that Geoff did not see as part of his …

Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in
shaping biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin of the Austronesian …

An airlift pump is a vertical tube that utilizes the buoyant effects of a gas to lift a liquid. Unlike
a standard mechanical pump, the liquid flow rate through the airlift pump is not directly …

… Geoffrey Gray, “‘He has not followed the usual sequence’: Ronald M. Berndt’s Secrets,”
Journal of … See generally, Geoffrey Gray, “‘You are … my anthropological children’: AP Elkin, …

World War II had unexpected consequences for the development of anthropology in Australia;
it led to a breaking of the hegemonic control exercised by the Sydney department by the …

At the end of the Pacific War (1941–1945) in Papua and New Guinea and the restoration of
Australian rule, the Australian Labor government anticipated a self‐governing colony. It was …

Recent genomic analyses show that the earliest peoples reaching Remote Oceania—associated
with Austronesian-speaking Lapita culture—were almost completely East Asian, …

Geopolitical conditions influence all strategic behaviour - even when cooperation among
different kinds of military power is expected as the norm, action has to be planned and …