Thomas Reuter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Reuter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Reuter |
| SIGNATURE | REUTER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9090-1544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sustainability as a Problem of Culture and Meaning
External shocks such as meteor strikes have led to rare mass extinctions events in the past. The “external” shock faced by life on Earth in this Anthropocene era, however, is unsustainable human ecologies. Human ecologies are clusters of local cultural narrative constructs and regulated practices that determine how we interact with local natural environments. The sustainability crisis we face today is thus not an ecological but a cultural crisis.…
Why Social Justice is the Most Effective Means of Disaster Impact Mitigation
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the impact of a systemic crisis depends very much on the prevailing level of inequality in the society concerned. This paper shows how the affordability of food was reduced dramatically for millions of people due to income loss in the wake of the pandemic, and the consequences this had. An analysis of the political economy of crisis then illustrates how economic inequality acts as a massive amplifier of disast…
B3.1 - A universally applicable condition monitoring system for efficiency evaluation of low-voltage motors
Imagining a future civilization
Are we able to imagine and create a new civilization, a better world, in a collective act of imagination and will? Active imagination is in essence a process of reflection on possible futures that already lie dormant within the present, and a decision to pursue the most desirable option. Active imagination thus may be expected to increase the probability that a positive, chosen future will actually become manifest reality. Evidently, however, the…
Seeds of Life, Seeds of Hunger
L'industrialisation de l'agriculture a entraîné les agriculteurs du monde entier dans le tourbillon d'un système alimentaire mondial commercialise, ce qui a provoqué le déclin massif de l'agriculture traditionnelle à petite échelle et l'appauvrissement de la diversité biologique, organique et durable. Elle a plutôt favorisé la culture mécanisée sur de grandes terres, la monoculture, l'utilisation de méthodes de culture agressive et accrue la dépe…
Regaining Lost Ground
Since the 1960s, Indonesia has industrialised agriculture, following the model promoted by the global bio-tech research complex and development agencies. Alternative approaches favoured by local grassroots organisations and NGOs include solutions grounded in moral economic systems of communal solidarity, small-scale production, local knowledge and the localisation of distribution and consumption networks. To illustrate the viability of such alter…
Climate change as a cultural artifact
Global warming has emerged as a menacing and time-sensitive systemic issue, and a paradigm shift in our thinking about the place of economics in human societies is urgently needed if we are to avert an environmental crisis of epic proportions this century
Lumbung Nation
Indonesian food security policy suffers from a fundamental internal contradiction–between neoliberal pressures towards more integration into the global market-based food system geared towards profit and an intractable residual belief in national self-sufficiency in staple foods. While this contradiction presents itself in technical and economic terms, it is fundamentally a matter of culture and ideology. The article addresses this contradiction b…
World Anthropology and its Institutional Challenges
Anthropology reveals a rich diversity of human cultures, while also highlighting our commonalities. The discipline is a distorted mirror of this unity in diversity, however, so long as anthropologists from only a few, privileged cultures dominate the process of global knowledge construction. The World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) was founded to address this. The WCAA provides a global platform for democratic participation in the…
Understanding Food System Resilience in Bali, Indonesia
Food systems in Indonesia and other developing countries have witnessed a rapid change in production, trade, and consumption patterns. The central highlands and northeastern coast of Bali form one such system, with centuries of documented regional trade relations between coastal and highland communities whose food products were complementary. This paper adopts a moral economy approach to explain the decline in local food security at a systemic le…
Anthropology and Resurgent Nationalism
World Council of Anthropological Associations ( WCAA )
Since the early twentieth century, countless modern anthropological studies have paid tribute to the richness of cultural diversity across societies, as well as highlighting some of the existential conditions we all share as human beings. The discipline has not been able to serve as an undistorted mirror of this unity in diversity, however, because scholars from a few privileged nations have dominated the process of anthropological knowledge cons…
Staying Local in the Global Village
One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Miguel Covarrubias, Fred Barth, and Hildred and Clifford Geertz. Staying Local in the Global Village is part of a continuing tradition in which Balinese and foreign scholars reflect on the processes of transformation that link Bali to Indonesia and the world beyond. The chapters in this volume are based on res…
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the wo…
Can 3D scanning of countermarks on Roman coins help to reconstruct the movement of Varus and his legions
Nature and the Self
Helen Kopnina’s article provides an excellent review and analysis of conflicting calls for social vs. environmental justice in anthropology. It recognizes the voraciousness of neoliberal developmen
Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, customary institutions contribute to sustainable and equitable rural development and the establishment of improved access to and management of land, water and other natural resources. Drawing on multi-sited empirical research, we argue that the recognition and valorization of custom and common property management is a prerequisite for sustainable and equitable land tenure reform in Timor-Leste. In a four-community study of the rel…
Political Parties and the Power of Money in Indonesia and Beyond
Political parties in Indonesia and in other parts of Southeast Asia have become vitally dependent on the financial support of individuals or conglomerates with large private fortunes. A remarkable new development is that some of the billionaires who have long sponsored political parties have decided to out themselves as political leaders, and thus to adopt the style of oligarchs. I define an oligarchy as a society featuring systematic conflation …
Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, customary institutions contribute to sustainable and equitable rural development and the establishment of improved access to and management of land, water and other natural resources. Drawing on multi-sited empirical research, we argue that the recognition and valorization of custom and common property management is a prerequisite for sustainable and equitable land tenure reform in Timor-Leste. In a four-community study of the rel…
Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias
Research by anthropologists engaged with the Comparative Austronesia Project (Australian National University) has amassed an enormous data set for ethnological comparison between the religions of Austronesian-speaking societies, a language group to which nearly all Indonesian societies also belong. Comparative analysis reveals that ancestor veneration is a key-shared feature among “Austronesian” religious cosmologies; a feature that also resonate…
The Green Revolution in the World's Religions
Similar to progressive political movements, the programs of many religious and spiritual groups today are converging around a shared commitment to address the impending global ecological crisis. The paper explores this convergence by looking at the impact of environmentalist thought on religious discourses in modern Indonesia, the author's primary research area, and comparing the findings to similar trends elsewhere. The research shows that the e…
Imagining globalization in anthropology
Over the last century anthropological studies have served as a testimony to human cultural diversity, as well as highlighting the existential challenges we all share, but the discipline has failed to provide an undistorted mirror of this unity in diversity. Critics from postcolonial studies and within anthropology have argued that anthropological knowledge cannot be universal so long as representatives of only a few privileged nations participate…
Transforming Anthropology from the East and South
Faith in the Future
Revitalization of religious and cultural traditions is taking place in nearly all contemporary Asian societies and beyond. Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia provides a comparative analysis of the key features and aspirations of revitalization movements and assesses their scope for shaping the future trajectories of societies in all parts of the world.
Surfing the Sixth Wave
The sixth wave: How to succeed in a resource-limited world, by James Bradfield Moody and Bianca Nogrady. Vintage Books, North Sydney, 2010, 311pp., endnotes, index. ISBN: 978-1-74166-889-6 (paperback).This review article critically evaluates predictions about the near future of humanity put forward in The Sixth Wave: How to Succeed in a Resource-Limited World, a book produced by Australian author James Bradfield Moody (Executive Director, Develop…
Precedence in Sumatra; An analysis of the construction of status in affinal relations and origin groups
Precedence in Sumatra 49 1 mamage.Instead, we find relationships whicb are constructed by emphasizing historical sequences of affinal ties, conceptualized as a 'flow of life ' (cf.Fox 1980: 12-13) and embodied in a chain of women.With a theory of 'precedence' these ordering constructs, and the status ranking associated with them, are better explained than they have been by forma1 structural models.Recognizing the inherent historica1 focus of thes…
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the wo…
Political Parties and the Power of Money in Indonesia and Beyond
Political parties in Indonesia and in other parts of Southeast Asia have become vitally dependent on the financial support of individuals or conglomerates with large private fortunes. A remarkable new development is that some of the billionaires who have long sponsored political parties have decided to out themselves as political leaders, and thus to adopt the style of oligarchs. I define an oligarchy as a society featuring systematic conflation …
Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, customary institutions contribute to sustainable and equitable rural development and the establishment of improved access to and management of land, water and other natural resources. Drawing on multi-sited empirical research, we argue that the recognition and valorization of custom and common property management is a prerequisite for sustainable and equitable land tenure reform in Timor-Leste. In a four-community study of the rel…
Globalisation and Local Identities
Understanding Food System Resilience in Bali, Indonesia
Food systems in Indonesia and other developing countries have witnessed a rapid change in production, trade, and consumption patterns. The central highlands and northeastern coast of Bali form one such system, with centuries of documented regional trade relations between coastal and highland communities whose food products were complementary. This paper adopts a moral economy approach to explain the decline in local food security at a systemic le…
Faith in the future
The global movement for a safe climate and environmental sustainability
Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias
Research by anthropologists engaged with the Comparative Austronesia Project (Australian National University) has amassed an enormous data set for ethnological comparison between the religions of Austronesian-speaking societies, a language group to which nearly all Indonesian societies also belong. Comparative analysis reveals that ancestor veneration is a key-shared feature among “Austronesian” religious cosmologies; a feature that also resonate…
The Green Revolution in the World's Religions
Similar to progressive political movements, the programs of many religious and spiritual groups today are converging around a shared commitment to address the impending global ecological crisis. The paper explores this convergence by looking at the impact of environmentalist thought on religious discourses in modern Indonesia, the author's primary research area, and comparing the findings to similar trends elsewhere. The research shows that the e…
Towards a Global Anthropology
Regaining Lost Ground
Since the 1960s, Indonesia has industrialised agriculture, following the model promoted by the global bio-tech research complex and development agencies. Alternative approaches favoured by local grassroots organisations and NGOs include solutions grounded in moral economic systems of communal solidarity, small-scale production, local knowledge and the localisation of distribution and consumption networks. To illustrate the viability of such alter…
Anthropology and Resurgent Nationalism
The Post-Modern Shift
Climate change as a cultural artifact
Global warming has emerged as a menacing and time-sensitive systemic issue, and a paradigm shift in our thinking about the place of economics in human societies is urgently needed if we are to avert an environmental crisis of epic proportions this century
Can 3D scanning of countermarks on Roman coins help to reconstruct the movement of Varus and his legions
Transforming Anthropology from the East and South
Communicating through the invisible
Precedence in Sumatra; An analysis of the construction of status in affinal relations and origin groups
Precedence in Sumatra 49 1 mamage.Instead, we find relationships whicb are constructed by emphasizing historical sequences of affinal ties, conceptualized as a 'flow of life ' (cf.Fox 1980: 12-13) and embodied in a chain of women.With a theory of 'precedence' these ordering constructs, and the status ranking associated with them, are better explained than they have been by forma1 structural models.Recognizing the inherent historica1 focus of thes…
Communicating through the invisible
Great Expectations
Based on preliminary ethnographic research in five Javanese communities with major Hindu temples, I explore the political history and social dynamics of Hindu revivalism. I reject formalist approaches to the study of religion, including the notion of ‘syncretism’ and instead, treat the Hindu revival movements as an illustration of how social agents employ religious or secular concepts and values in their strategic responses to the particular chal…
Great Expectations
Based on preliminary ethnographic research in five Javanese communities with major Hindu temples, I explore the political history and social dynamics of Hindu revivalism. I reject formalist approaches to the study of religion, including the notion of ‘syncretism’ and instead, treat the Hindu revival movements as an illustration of how social agents employ religious or secular concepts and values in their strategic responses to the particular chal…
The House of Our Ancestors
The House of Our Ancestors is a study of the Mountain Balinese or Bali Aga, an ethnic group with a distinct history and culture who are thought to be the indigenous people of Bali, Indonesia. In popular ideas of Balinese identity, the highland people feature as the conceptual counterpart to the royal houses established in the southern lowlands of the island. Hidden in shadow of this courtly culture, the world of the highland Balinese has been lar…
Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106
Journal Article Henry IV of Germany, 1056–1106 Get access Timothy Reuter Timothy Reuter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 473, September 2002, Pages 949–950, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.949 Published: 01 September 2002
Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Being Modern in Bali after Suharto Chapter 3: Art and Peace in the Safest Place in the World: A Culture of Apoliticism in Bali Chapter 4: Reflections on Literature and Politics in Bali: The Development of Lekra, 1950-1966 Chapter 5: Transformations of a Genre of Balinese Dance Drama: Arja Muani as the Modern Day Agent of Classical Arja's Liberal Gender Agenda Chapter 6: Ritual as 'Work': The Invisibility of Wome…
Towards a Global Anthropology
Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land
This collection of papers is the fifth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Reflecting the unique experience of fourteen ethnographers in as many different societies, the papers in this volume explore how people in the Austronesian-speaking societies of the Asia-Pacific have traditionally constructed their relationship to land and
The Post-Modern Shift
Globalisation and Local Identities
Forum
Faith in the future
The global movement for a safe climate and environmental sustainability
Faith in the Future
Revitalization of religious and cultural traditions is taking place in nearly all contemporary Asian societies and beyond. Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia provides a comparative analysis of the key features and aspirations of revitalization movements and assesses their scope for shaping the future trajectories of societies in all parts of the world.
Surfing the Sixth Wave
The sixth wave: How to succeed in a resource-limited world, by James Bradfield Moody and Bianca Nogrady. Vintage Books, North Sydney, 2010, 311pp., endnotes, index. ISBN: 978-1-74166-889-6 (paperback).This review article critically evaluates predictions about the near future of humanity put forward in The Sixth Wave: How to Succeed in a Resource-Limited World, a book produced by Australian author James Bradfield Moody (Executive Director, Develop…
Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, customary institutions contribute to sustainable and equitable rural development and the establishment of improved access to and management of land, water and other natural resources. Drawing on multi-sited empirical research, we argue that the recognition and valorization of custom and common property management is a prerequisite for sustainable and equitable land tenure reform in Timor-Leste. In a four-community study of the rel…
Political Parties and the Power of Money in Indonesia and Beyond
Political parties in Indonesia and in other parts of Southeast Asia have become vitally dependent on the financial support of individuals or conglomerates with large private fortunes. A remarkable new development is that some of the billionaires who have long sponsored political parties have decided to out themselves as political leaders, and thus to adopt the style of oligarchs. I define an oligarchy as a society featuring systematic conflation …
Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste
In Timor-Leste, customary institutions contribute to sustainable and equitable rural development and the establishment of improved access to and management of land, water and other natural resources. Drawing on multi-sited empirical research, we argue that the recognition and valorization of custom and common property management is a prerequisite for sustainable and equitable land tenure reform in Timor-Leste. In a four-community study of the rel…
Is Ancestor veneration the most universal of all world religions? A critique of modernist cosmological bias
Research by anthropologists engaged with the Comparative Austronesia Project (Australian National University) has amassed an enormous data set for ethnological comparison between the religions of Austronesian-speaking societies, a language group to which nearly all Indonesian societies also belong. Comparative analysis reveals that ancestor veneration is a key-shared feature among “Austronesian” religious cosmologies; a feature that also resonate…
The Green Revolution in the World's Religions
Similar to progressive political movements, the programs of many religious and spiritual groups today are converging around a shared commitment to address the impending global ecological crisis. The paper explores this convergence by looking at the impact of environmentalist thought on religious discourses in modern Indonesia, the author's primary research area, and comparing the findings to similar trends elsewhere. The research shows that the e…
Imagining globalization in anthropology
Over the last century anthropological studies have served as a testimony to human cultural diversity, as well as highlighting the existential challenges we all share, but the discipline has failed to provide an undistorted mirror of this unity in diversity. Critics from postcolonial studies and within anthropology have argued that anthropological knowledge cannot be universal so long as representatives of only a few privileged nations participate…
Transforming Anthropology from the East and South
Can 3D scanning of countermarks on Roman coins help to reconstruct the movement of Varus and his legions
Nature and the Self
Helen Kopnina’s article provides an excellent review and analysis of conflicting calls for social vs. environmental justice in anthropology. It recognizes the voraciousness of neoliberal developmen
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