Toussaint
Biographic Data
| ID | 11874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toussaint |
| FAMILY NAME | Toussaint |
| SIGNATURE | TOUSSAINT |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8351-2341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shared Country, Different Stories: An Anthropologist’s Journey
Turning inward: Australian universities and colonial histories
‘Why can't we speak up for ourselves…?’ Water Futures and Ethnographic Provocations
Via a three‐person dialogue, we engage with an inquiry posed for this special issue: ‘What questions are ethnographers asking about water in Australia?’ Canvassing such an inquiry led us to being both provoked and provocateurs, in part by following Luci Pangrazio's (2016) discussion about the value of provocation in the social sciences. Turning from provocation as heuristic tool, we then focus on the iconic Mardoowarra , Fitzroy River in Western …
Hidden, not forgotten: First Nations voices over time from Western Australia to the Referendum
Other People's Country: Law, Water, and Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites. By TimothyNeale & StephenTurner (eds). Routledge: London and New York. 2019. Pp: 136. Price: AUS $ 77.99
A Time and Place beyond and of the Center
This chapter discusses the use of anthropological knowledge beyond "the center" of its own production. Australian anthropology replicates the parallels, dislocations, and betweennes evident in descriptions of Australia’s people and their cultural landscape. Anthropological involvement includes ethnographic research with indigenous traditional owners, cultural mapping, the recording of genealogies, and the preparation of detailed reports that will…
Ethnographies of Water
Water in all its permanent, temporary, colored, salt and freshwater forms, is vital and life-sustaining to human and other living species. Ethnographic research has, by necessity, always included water in all its variations, whereas ethnographies of water describe and analyze not only accounts about water’s intrinsic value to life, but also how different societies conceptualize, sustain, use, control, and attribute meaning to it. Water as a cultu…
“[It’s] more than just medicine”: The value and sustainability of mandatory, non-clinical, short-term rural placements in a Western Australian medical school
Introduction: In 2005, the University of Notre Dame School of Medicine (Western Australia) established a mandatory, non-clinical rural and remote (hereafter termed rural) health placement program delivered in 2 weeks over 2 years, largely resourced by voluntary human capital. Our study investigated whether the program: (1) encouraged medical graduates to seek rural employment; (2) enhanced their ability to meet rural people’s health needs; and (3…
Embargoes, a Queen and the Gurindji
A ustralia, Anthropology in
Influenced by scholars in Great Britain and the United States, anthropology was established in Australia in the 1920s. Like other colonized nations, an early emphasis was Indigenous Australian and Melanesian groups. Anthropology in the twenty‐first century is taught at most Australian universities, although federal government funding for the humanities and social sciences is increasingly tight. For these and reasons connected to changing conceptu…
Wetlands need people: A framework for understanding and promoting Australian indigenous wetland management
Pyke, M. L., S. Toussaint, P. G. Close, R. J. Dobbs, I. Davey, K. George, D. Oades, D. Sibosado, P. McCarthy, C. Tigan, B. Angus (Jnr), E. Riley, D. Cox, Z. Cox, B. Smith, P. Cox, A. Wiggan, and J. Clifton. 2018. Wetlands need people: a framework for understanding and promoting Australian indigenous wetland management. Ecology and Society 23(3):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10283-230343
Environmental change: Prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot
Pettit, N. E., R. J. Naiman, J. M. Fry, D. J. Roberts, P. G. Close, B. J. Pusey, G. Woodall, C. J. MacGregor, P. Speldewinde, B. Stewart, R. Dobbs, H. Paterson, P. Cook, S. Toussaint, S. Comer, and P. M. Davies. 2015. Environmental change: prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Society 20(3): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07727-200310
Fishing for Fish and for Jaminyjarti in Northern Aboriginal Australia: Fishing for Fish and for Jaminyjarti in Northern Aboriginal Australia
Socio-cultural and ecological literature about Australian Indigenous groups reveal that fishing is a vital part of everyday life for many groups who have customary and recreational fresh and salt-water affiliations. This vitality exists and has meaning for families and communities in the Kimberley's Fitzroy Valley region of Northern Aboriginal Australia. Less well known, however, is the central part that fishing plays in jaminyjarti, a ritual tha…
The restless anthropologist: New fieldsites, new visions
Based on papers presented in a panel at the 2007 American Anthropological Association’s Conference in Washington, The restless anthropologist explores why eight anthropologists decided to ‘switch’ ...
A Wall out of Place: A Hydrological and Sociocultural Analysis of Physical Changes to the Lakeshore of Como, Italy
Laborde, S., J. Imberger, and S. Toussaint. 2012. A wall out of place: a hydrological and sociocultural analysis of physical changes to the lakeshore of Como, Italy. Ecology and Society 17(1): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04610-170133
Policy and practice at Moola Bulla
This paper seeks to document and explain why one of the original intentions behind the proposal in 1909 to establish Moola Bulla, designated at different times as a 'Native Station and Settlement', a 'Cattle Station' and a 'Native Station',1 'to be worked by the natives for their own benefit'2 was only ever realised in part and why the recommendation to close the station was reached in 1954 3 Through an analysis of archival materials, supplemente…
Climate Change, Global Warming and Too Much Sorry Business
Kimberley Friction: Complex Attachments to Water‐Places in Northern Australia
Water, in all its physical, symbolic and metaphorical guises, has an obvious interconnection with people. Without water, human and other life forms cannot (and do not) exist. Less obvious is water's potential as a site of anthropological investigation to explore attachments to place. Such attachments, as Arturo Escobar observes, facilitate a multiplicity of place‐based cultures, and emerge when ‘connectivity, interactivity and positionality’ are …
Melodies of mourning: Music and emotion in northern Australia - By Fiona Magowan
Kay O'Connor, 1938–2006
Australian Anthropology: The Best and Worst of Globalized Times
Water Ways in Aboriginal Australia: An Interconnected Analysis1
The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology
The Indomitable Miss Pink:. Life in Anthropology. Julie Marcus. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2001. 340 pp
Searching for Phyllis Kaberry via Proust: Biography, ethnography and memory as a subject of inquiry
Honoring Our Predecessors: A Response to Herbert Lewis's Essay on “The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences”
Water Ways in Aboriginal Australia: An Interconnected Analysis1
The restless anthropologist: New fieldsites, new visions
Based on papers presented in a panel at the 2007 American Anthropological Association’s Conference in Washington, The restless anthropologist explores why eight anthropologists decided to ‘switch’ ...
Wetlands need people: A framework for understanding and promoting Australian indigenous wetland management
Pyke, M. L., S. Toussaint, P. G. Close, R. J. Dobbs, I. Davey, K. George, D. Oades, D. Sibosado, P. McCarthy, C. Tigan, B. Angus (Jnr), E. Riley, D. Cox, Z. Cox, B. Smith, P. Cox, A. Wiggan, and J. Clifton. 2018. Wetlands need people: a framework for understanding and promoting Australian indigenous wetland management. Ecology and Society 23(3):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10283-230343
Honoring Our Predecessors: A Response to Herbert Lewis's Essay on “The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences”
Aboriginal Australia and Natural Justice
Aboriginal men and women continue to be grossly over‐represented in police and prison custodial settings. In 1987 the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was established primarily because deaths in custody were far too common. Commission findings, including over 300 recommendations, were finally publicly released in 1991. In a number of significant ways, it was revealed that the ‘scene had been set’ for premature death both inside …
Honoring Our Predecessors: A Response to Herbert Lewis's Essay on “The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences”
Searching for Phyllis Kaberry via Proust: Biography, ethnography and memory as a subject of inquiry
The Indomitable Miss Pink: A Life in Anthropology
The Indomitable Miss Pink:. Life in Anthropology. Julie Marcus. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2001. 340 pp
Water Ways in Aboriginal Australia: An Interconnected Analysis1
Kay O'Connor, 1938–2006
Australian Anthropology: The Best and Worst of Globalized Times
Climate Change, Global Warming and Too Much Sorry Business
Kimberley Friction: Complex Attachments to Water‐Places in Northern Australia
Water, in all its physical, symbolic and metaphorical guises, has an obvious interconnection with people. Without water, human and other life forms cannot (and do not) exist. Less obvious is water's potential as a site of anthropological investigation to explore attachments to place. Such attachments, as Arturo Escobar observes, facilitate a multiplicity of place‐based cultures, and emerge when ‘connectivity, interactivity and positionality’ are …
Melodies of mourning: Music and emotion in northern Australia - By Fiona Magowan
Policy and practice at Moola Bulla
This paper seeks to document and explain why one of the original intentions behind the proposal in 1909 to establish Moola Bulla, designated at different times as a 'Native Station and Settlement', a 'Cattle Station' and a 'Native Station',1 'to be worked by the natives for their own benefit'2 was only ever realised in part and why the recommendation to close the station was reached in 1954 3 Through an analysis of archival materials, supplemente…
A Wall out of Place: A Hydrological and Sociocultural Analysis of Physical Changes to the Lakeshore of Como, Italy
Laborde, S., J. Imberger, and S. Toussaint. 2012. A wall out of place: a hydrological and sociocultural analysis of physical changes to the lakeshore of Como, Italy. Ecology and Society 17(1): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04610-170133
Fishing for Fish and for Jaminyjarti in Northern Aboriginal Australia: Fishing for Fish and for Jaminyjarti in Northern Aboriginal Australia
Socio-cultural and ecological literature about Australian Indigenous groups reveal that fishing is a vital part of everyday life for many groups who have customary and recreational fresh and salt-water affiliations. This vitality exists and has meaning for families and communities in the Kimberley's Fitzroy Valley region of Northern Aboriginal Australia. Less well known, however, is the central part that fishing plays in jaminyjarti, a ritual tha…
The restless anthropologist: New fieldsites, new visions
Based on papers presented in a panel at the 2007 American Anthropological Association’s Conference in Washington, The restless anthropologist explores why eight anthropologists decided to ‘switch’ ...
Environmental change: Prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot
Pettit, N. E., R. J. Naiman, J. M. Fry, D. J. Roberts, P. G. Close, B. J. Pusey, G. Woodall, C. J. MacGregor, P. Speldewinde, B. Stewart, R. Dobbs, H. Paterson, P. Cook, S. Toussaint, S. Comer, and P. M. Davies. 2015. Environmental change: prospects for conservation and agriculture in a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Society 20(3): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07727-200310
A ustralia, Anthropology in
Influenced by scholars in Great Britain and the United States, anthropology was established in Australia in the 1920s. Like other colonized nations, an early emphasis was Indigenous Australian and Melanesian groups. Anthropology in the twenty‐first century is taught at most Australian universities, although federal government funding for the humanities and social sciences is increasingly tight. For these and reasons connected to changing conceptu…
Wetlands need people: A framework for understanding and promoting Australian indigenous wetland management
Pyke, M. L., S. Toussaint, P. G. Close, R. J. Dobbs, I. Davey, K. George, D. Oades, D. Sibosado, P. McCarthy, C. Tigan, B. Angus (Jnr), E. Riley, D. Cox, Z. Cox, B. Smith, P. Cox, A. Wiggan, and J. Clifton. 2018. Wetlands need people: a framework for understanding and promoting Australian indigenous wetland management. Ecology and Society 23(3):43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10283-230343
A Time and Place beyond and of the Center
This chapter discusses the use of anthropological knowledge beyond "the center" of its own production. Australian anthropology replicates the parallels, dislocations, and betweennes evident in descriptions of Australia’s people and their cultural landscape. Anthropological involvement includes ethnographic research with indigenous traditional owners, cultural mapping, the recording of genealogies, and the preparation of detailed reports that will…
Ethnographies of Water
Water in all its permanent, temporary, colored, salt and freshwater forms, is vital and life-sustaining to human and other living species. Ethnographic research has, by necessity, always included water in all its variations, whereas ethnographies of water describe and analyze not only accounts about water’s intrinsic value to life, but also how different societies conceptualize, sustain, use, control, and attribute meaning to it. Water as a cultu…
“[It’s] more than just medicine”: The value and sustainability of mandatory, non-clinical, short-term rural placements in a Western Australian medical school
Introduction: In 2005, the University of Notre Dame School of Medicine (Western Australia) established a mandatory, non-clinical rural and remote (hereafter termed rural) health placement program delivered in 2 weeks over 2 years, largely resourced by voluntary human capital. Our study investigated whether the program: (1) encouraged medical graduates to seek rural employment; (2) enhanced their ability to meet rural people’s health needs; and (3…
Embargoes, a Queen and the Gurindji
Other People's Country: Law, Water, and Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites. By TimothyNeale & StephenTurner (eds). Routledge: London and New York. 2019. Pp: 136. Price: AUS $ 77.99
‘Why can't we speak up for ourselves…?’ Water Futures and Ethnographic Provocations
Via a three‐person dialogue, we engage with an inquiry posed for this special issue: ‘What questions are ethnographers asking about water in Australia?’ Canvassing such an inquiry led us to being both provoked and provocateurs, in part by following Luci Pangrazio's (2016) discussion about the value of provocation in the social sciences. Turning from provocation as heuristic tool, we then focus on the iconic Mardoowarra , Fitzroy River in Western …
Hidden, not forgotten: First Nations voices over time from Western Australia to the Referendum
Shared Country, Different Stories: An Anthropologist’s Journey
Sociology (18 works) · History (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (5 works)