Claire Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9028-6687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 383 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 93 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
An Archaeology of Everyday Racism
This chapter uses archaeological skills to examine the role of material culture in replicating everyday racism in Katherine, Northern Territory (NT), Australia. We argue that inclusivity, in the sense of equal and equitable access to opportunities and resources, is determined by inclusive design supported by inclusive behaviors and that archaeologists can inform the creation of a more equitable world by identifying how material culture acts to ex…
Adnyamathanha and Archaeological Views on Warratyi Rock Shelter (The Rock), a 50,000-Year-Old Site in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
This paper examines the perspectives of Adnyamathanha people and archaeologists regarding the Warratyi rock shelter, also known as “The Rock,” an archaeological site in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges, dated to approximately 49,000 years BP (Hamm et al. 2016). While the scientific significance of such sites is often emphasized, the views and knowledge of the communities who are the traditional custodians of these lands are rarely discussed. Thi…
Barriers and enablers to providing healthy food and beverages in New Zealand secondary school canteens
School environments have the potential to promote healthy dietary behaviours among adolescents. In New Zealand, there is no regulation regarding the healthiness of foods and beverages available to purchase at school canteens. This qualitative study explored the barriers and enablers to providing healthy food and beverages in secondary school canteens. An electronic screening questionnaire was distributed to all secondary schools to identify schoo…
Household food insecurity, nutrient intakes and BMI in New Zealand infants
Objective: The first year of life is a critical period when nutrient intakes can affect long-term health outcomes. Although household food insecurity may result in inadequate nutrient intakes or a higher risk of obesity, no studies have comprehensively assessed nutrient intakes of infants from food insecure households. This study aimed to investigate how infant nutrient intakes and BMI differ by household food security. Design: Cross-sectional an…
Forum Response
Voice
Transformative Practices in Archaeology
The book introduces a diverse range of themes and practices relating to sustainable heritage management and explores the evolution of auto archaeology
Transformative Practices in Archaeology
The Indigenisation of Australian Archaeology
Household food insecurity and novel complementary feeding methods in New Zealand families
Optimal nutrition during infancy is critical given its influence on lifelong health and wellbeing. Two novel methods of infant complementary feeding, commercial baby food pouch use and baby-led weaning (BLW), are becoming increasingly popular worldwide. Household food insecurity may influence complementary feeding practices adopted by families, but no studies have investigated the use of BLW and baby food pouches in families experiencing food ins…
A transformative archaeology
Women in Australian Archaeology
Encountering the Past
Ian McNiven recently argued that interpretive theoretical frameworks shaped by Indigenous worldviews offer the potential to enrich archaeological understandings of the past and inform archaeological practice in the present. In this chapter, the authors apply one of the core theoretical concepts McNiven identified—Indigenous experiences of encountering the past—to their work with Ngarrindjeri, Jawoyn, and Yanyuwa Aboriginal people. Through the len…
WAC-10 in Australia, June 2025
Vincent Gilbert Copley OAM 24/12/1936–10/1/2022
Disparities in mental health access before and after transitioning to telehealth
Using archaeology to strengthen Indigenous social, emotional, and economic wellbeing
The Ngadjuri people of South Australia were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the late 19th and early 20th century. Their relocation to missions where they were under colonial control led to a disruption – but not an obliteration – of Ngadjuri links to their heritage sites and traditional lands. In the 1990s Ngadjuri people began a concerted effort to reclaim their pasts and their knowledge of their traditional lands. Since 1998, a…
It’s All Just Marketing”, a Qualitative Analysis of Consumer Perceptions and Understandings of Nutrition Content and Health Claims in New Zealand
Nutrition content and health claims are widely used globally on both food labels and in food advertising. This study explored how New Zealand consumers understand, perceive, and use nutrition content and health claims on food labels. A qualitative approach was used with semi-structured in-depth online interviews and in-person focus groups including 49 participants, aged ≥25 years responsible for household food shopping. Transcripts were analysed …
Reasons behind Reasons
This paper analyses conceptual frameworks that have been suggested in the literature for understanding women’s radicalization, including the emergent phenomenon of family bombings, focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia. We argue that understanding these trends requires grappling with socio-culturally specific gender-related concepts and that the liberal political theory framework that has informed a significant body of research in this area, with it…
Radicalization in the Asia-Pacific Region
Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development
International economic law is peculiar. It claims universal character, yet eschews engagement with many, if not all, the racialised features of the global political economy. Its scholars mostly ignore imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism; they exclude slavery, predation, and racism altogether. In the following article, we draw upon Walter Rodney's dialectics of development to offer a racial capitalist critique of international economic law. T…
The implications of Indigenous conceptual frameworks and methods for rethinking humanness as performance
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Ancestors, place and people
Decolonising Archaeological Theory and Practice
London, UK
W.E.H. Stanner
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia
Decolonizing Indigenous Archaeology
Pursuing Social Justice Through Collaborative Archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia
The Islamic State's symbolic war
Using the Islamic State/Da'esh as a case study, we identify the genesis of a new form of terrorism arising from the convergence of networked social media and changes in the forms of conflict. Socially mediated terrorism is defined as 'the use of social and networked media to increase the impact of violent acts undertaken to further a social, political and/or religious cause with the aim of creating physical, emotional or psychological suffering t…
Colonising With Style
The role of material culture in the visual communication of information has been a focus of much recent debate in the international anthropological and archaeological literature (eg Conkey 1990; Davis 1990; Hodder 1985; Wiessner 1988; Wobst 1977). Central to this concern has been assessment of the role of information exchange in the occupation of particular environments (eg Brandt and Carder 1987; Gamble 1982; Jochim 1983). Recent analyses of Aus…
Epistemological Intimacy
In this article, the author reflects on the dilemma she faced when choosing an appropriate qualitative method for her master's thesis, which is entitled Creatively Rehabilitating Self-Esteem After an Acquired Brain Injury: An Auto-Ethnography of Healing. She found herself in a unique 'insider' position, because, as well as being the student researcher, she was from the same culture as the participants. Therefore, to gain maximum access to the val…
Decolonising the museum
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Smithsonian Institution's new facility on the National Mall in Washington DC, challenges the very notion of what constitutes a museum. Probably the most theoretically informed museum in North America, this is no shrine to the past: it is a museum that claims both past and present to shape a decolonised future for Indigenous populations
Theoretical Perspectives in Rock Art Research
Glass Ceilings, Glass Parasols and Australian Academic Archaeology
The 'glass ceiling' was a term coined to depict the invisible yet impenetrable barriers met by women seeking to advance to the uppermost levels of the corporate ladder. It is not simply a barrier encountered by an individual, but rather applies to particular groups of people who are kept from advancing as a result of attitudinal and organisational biases and internal systems that operate to the career disadvantage of women and minorities. Within …
Beyond The Looking-Glass
A traditional strength of Australian archaeology has been the analysis of sociopolitical issues, especially the relationships between archaeologists and Aboriginal people (e.g. Allen 1983; Beck and McConnell 1986; Birkhead et al. 1992; Bowdler 1988; Davidson 1992; Frankel 1980; Golson 1986; Lewis and Rose 1985; McBryde 1986; Mowaljarlai et al. 1988; Mulvaney 1966; Murray 1989; Pardoe 1990; Sullivan 1983) and between archaeologists and the wider c…
Recent developments in radiocarbon and stylistic methods of dating rock-art
The 1950s, era of the first radiocarbon revolution, saw famous clashes between confidence in the old chronologies and the new results from radiocarbon, which sometimes appeared 'archaeologically unacceptable'. The same issues continue in respect of the radiocarbon dating of rock art, where the sheer technical difficulty of securing a dating number in which one can have confidence, remains a large real obstacle
Hidden Sites, Hidden Images, Hidden Meanings
Using an ethnographic approach, this research assesses common assumptions in rock art research in terms of their validity for Aboriginal rock art sites in the Barunga region of the Northern Territory, Australia. In particular, we assess the potential and limits of the commonly held assumption that open or restricted access to sites and/or the meaning of motifs can be assessed by determining the visibility of the site or image within the landscape…
An engaged archaeology field school with a remote aboriginal community
This paper presents an analysis of the longest-running archaeological field school in Australia, the Barunga Community Archaeology Field School, which has been operating annually for over 20 years, since 1998. The overarching aim of this field school is for students to learn about Aboriginal culture from Aboriginal people and to experience the cultural protocols that apply when conducting archaeological research in a remote Aboriginal community. …
Global Social Archaeologies
Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and Indigenous rights. It addresses the major challenge of breaking down global divides, especially in relation to fundamental human rights, inequality, and inequities of wealth, power, and access to knowledge. This authoritative volume, authored by the current and past presiden…
Beswick Creek Cave six decades later
We’ve got better things to do than worry about whitefella politics’
This paper explores whether Aboriginal people have used graffiti to display resistance to the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007. One of the first studies of graffiti in a remote Aboriginal community, this research was undertaken on Jawoyn lands in the Northern Territory, Australia. It encompasses the Aboriginal communities of Barunga, Manyallaluk and Beswick, where graffiti was recorded at 277 road signs along the Central Ar…
Puerto PEÑAsco
2009). Puerto PENAsco: Fishing Village To Tourist Mecca. Geographical Review: Vol. 99, No. 4, pp. 575-597
Rock Art Research In Australia 1974-94
In 1969, John Mulvaney wrote that: It is difficult for a prehistorian to assess Aboriginal art. Until recently it possessed no time depth ... Neither can an Australian prehistorians escape the conditioning influence of ethnographic data. A prehistorian may infer the methods of application or techniques of engraving from observation, but comment concerning motivation and meaning is beyond the scope of normal archaeological activities. Despite some…
Message, milieu, technology, and turnout among military and overseas voters
Errors of Fact and Errors of Representation
This paper is a personal response by the President of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) to critiques of WAC by Nick Shepherd and Alejandro Haber in their article 'What's up with WAC? Archaeology and "Engagement" in a Globalized World', published in Public Archaeology in May 2011. This paper rectifies factual errors in Shepherd and Haber's paper in order to correct the public record. It also argues that, factual errors aside, Shepherd and Ha…
Reasons behind Reasons
This paper analyses conceptual frameworks that have been suggested in the literature for understanding women’s radicalization, including the emergent phenomenon of family bombings, focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia. We argue that understanding these trends requires grappling with socio-culturally specific gender-related concepts and that the liberal political theory framework that has informed a significant body of research in this area, with it…
Global Divides and Cultural Diversity
On Intellectual Property Rights and Archaeology
The Manipulation of Social, Cultural and Religious Values in Socially Mediated Terrorism
This paper presents an analysis of how the Islamic State/Da'esh and Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia manipulate conflicting social, cultural and religious values as part of their socially mediated terrorism. It focusses on three case studies: (1) the attacks in Paris, France on 13 November 2015; (2) the destruction of cultural heritage sites in Iraq and Syria; and (3) the struggle between nationalist values and extreme Islamic values in Indonesia. The ca…
Etnoarqueología y arte rupestre
Este artículo reflexiona de manera crítica sobre el potencial de la investigación etnoarqueológica para contribuir a la comprensión de los procesos de creación y el uso del arte rupestre. A diferencia de la mayor parte de los estudios arqueológicos, centrados en el estudio de materiales y objetos separados de sus autores desde hace mucho tiempo, la investigación etnoarqueológica implica trabajar con personas y restos contemporáneos y requiere una…
A Speculation on Connective Tissue‐activating Peptides in the Psoriasiform Reaction
With case studies from North America to Australia and South Africa and covering topics from archaeological ethics to the repatriation of human remains, this book charts the development of a new form of archaeology that is informed by indigenous values and agendas. This involves fundamental changes in archaeological theory and practice as well as substantive changes in the power relations between archaeologists and indigenous peoples. Questions co…
Letting Go
Minutes Of The Australian Archaeological Association Agm 1991
Designed Dreaming
Designed Dreaming: Assessing The Relationship Between Style, Social Structure And Environment In Aboriginal Australia." Australian Archaeology, 34(1), p. 51
Colonising With Style
The role of material culture in the visual communication of information has been a focus of much recent debate in the international anthropological and archaeological literature (eg Conkey 1990; Davis 1990; Hodder 1985; Wiessner 1988; Wobst 1977). Central to this concern has been assessment of the role of information exchange in the occupation of particular environments (eg Brandt and Carder 1987; Gamble 1982; Jochim 1983). Recent analyses of Aus…
Beyond The Looking-Glass
A traditional strength of Australian archaeology has been the analysis of sociopolitical issues, especially the relationships between archaeologists and Aboriginal people (e.g. Allen 1983; Beck and McConnell 1986; Birkhead et al. 1992; Bowdler 1988; Davidson 1992; Frankel 1980; Golson 1986; Lewis and Rose 1985; McBryde 1986; Mowaljarlai et al. 1988; Mulvaney 1966; Murray 1989; Pardoe 1990; Sullivan 1983) and between archaeologists and the wider c…
Rock Art Research In Australia 1974-94
In 1969, John Mulvaney wrote that: It is difficult for a prehistorian to assess Aboriginal art. Until recently it possessed no time depth ... Neither can an Australian prehistorians escape the conditioning influence of ethnographic data. A prehistorian may infer the methods of application or techniques of engraving from observation, but comment concerning motivation and meaning is beyond the scope of normal archaeological activities. Despite some…
Situating style
This is an ethnoarchaeological study of style in the visual arts of Aboriginal people living in the Barunga region of the Northern Territory, Australia. My main concern is the development of a practical framework for the analysis of style in indigenous visual arts. This framework integrates the notions of style, semiotics and social strategy in an attempt to deal with the dynamics of image creation and perception. The principal result is that the…
First In Their Field
First In Their Field: Women And Australian Anthropology." Australian Archaeology, 43(1), pp. 48–49
Body art and archaeological theory
In my current research project, an ethnoarchaeological study of indigenous body art, I isolate a single art genre, body art, and consider its stylistic variation across a range of Australasian and Asian societies. My aim is to develop an understanding of how social processes affect style within a specific art genre by systematically evaluating the relationships between body art and social context. The conjunction of recent theoretical advancement…
Recent developments in radiocarbon and stylistic methods of dating rock-art
The 1950s, era of the first radiocarbon revolution, saw famous clashes between confidence in the old chronologies and the new results from radiocarbon, which sometimes appeared 'archaeologically unacceptable'. The same issues continue in respect of the radiocarbon dating of rock art, where the sheer technical difficulty of securing a dating number in which one can have confidence, remains a large real obstacle
The Linnean Society's Smith Herbarium
Theoretical Perspectives in Rock Art Research
Backfill
Indigenous Archaeologies
On Intellectual Property Rights and Archaeology
The World Archaeological Congress
Becoming Binford
In an age of populism and celebrity culture our approach to teaching archaeological theory and method directs entrenched (and often unconscious) social and behavioural attitudes towards the analysis of a specific object, the ‘celebritized’ archaeologist, in order to enhance students' engagement with a traditionally difficult topic, archaeological theory and method. Harnessing students' curiosity and channeling their ability to learn effectively i…
Becoming Binford
In an age of populism and celebrity culture our approach to teaching archaeological theory and method directs entrenched (and often unconscious) social and behavioural attitudes towards the analysis of a specific object, the 'celebritized' archaeologist, in order to enhance students' engagement with a traditionally difficult topic, archaeological theory and method. Harnessing students' curiosity and channeling their ability to learn effectively i…
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia
Decolonising the museum
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Smithsonian Institution's new facility on the National Mall in Washington DC, challenges the very notion of what constitutes a museum. Probably the most theoretically informed museum in North America, this is no shrine to the past: it is a museum that claims both past and present to shape a decolonised future for Indigenous populations
Epistemological Intimacy
In this article, the author reflects on the dilemma she faced when choosing an appropriate qualitative method for her master's thesis, which is entitled Creatively Rehabilitating Self-Esteem After an Acquired Brain Injury: An Auto-Ethnography of Healing. She found herself in a unique 'insider' position, because, as well as being the student researcher, she was from the same culture as the participants. Therefore, to gain maximum access to the val…
Glass Ceilings, Glass Parasols and Australian Academic Archaeology
The 'glass ceiling' was a term coined to depict the invisible yet impenetrable barriers met by women seeking to advance to the uppermost levels of the corporate ladder. It is not simply a barrier encountered by an individual, but rather applies to particular groups of people who are kept from advancing as a result of attitudinal and organisational biases and internal systems that operate to the career disadvantage of women and minorities. Within …
Decolonizing Indigenous Archaeology
Sociology (49 works) · History (43 works) · Archaeology (42 works) · Geography (30 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (28 works) · Political science (27 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (26 works) · History (25 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 works) · Law (22 works)