Don Gardner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Gardner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDNER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The swiftness of lightning: The cultural and social dimensions of incised lines on archaeological arrows from alpine ice patches in Canada’s Northwest Territories
This paper examines the significance of incised sinuous lines, known as “lightning lines,” recently identified on two archaeological birch arrows recovered from melting alpine ice patches in Canada’s Subarctic. Ethnographic observations demonstrate that the practice of inscribing similar lines on arrows was widespread across Plains and southern Dene cultures. Archaeological evidence suggests that the trait may be associated with the arrival of a …
Comment on cosmopolitan politesse
This comment focuses less on the three hopes expressed in Nigel Rapport’s title than on the conception of individuality and its relation to the aspirations of the social sciences that underpins his case for cosmopolitan politesse. First, I want to say that Nigel Rapport’s industry is astonishing. He reads widely, across many genres, and has written a great deal aimed at persuading us of two things: that the social sciences suffer from fundamental…
Friendship, Anthropology of
Australasian Contrasts
The Determinants of Mianmin Settlement and Residential Patterns: A Reply to Morren
Boyd, Brian: On the Origin of Stories. Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Anthropos , Seite 616 - 617
The Scope of 'Meaning' and the Avoidance of Sylleptical Reason: A Plea for Some Modest Distinctions
Keywords: Meaningactionsyllepsisthe problem of meaningWeberGeertz Notes The stimulation provided by this small work is wholly disproportional, since it evokes views and arguments that Sahlins (2004) Sahlins, Marshall. 2004. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [Google Scholar] made in Apologies to Thucydides, which, in turn, reminds the reader of all the marvellously s…
Simulating the behaviour of light inside Arctic dwellings: Implications for Assessing the Role of Vision in Task Performance
Visibility studies in archaeology have been criticized because they tend to emphasize the importance of vision over other senses. The burgeoning field of sensory anthropology argues that the relative significance of visual, olfactory, acoustic and haptic (touch) senses varies cross-culturally, and is a function of how human beings interact with their particular environments. The Canadian Arctic is a unique sensory environment because prolonged pe…
Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia
Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia. Edward LiPuma. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 342 pp
Intensification, Social Production and the Inscrutable Ways of Culture
This paper examines Harold Brookfield's crucial concept of social production in the debates about the development of, and differences between, agricultural systems in central New Guinea. Although it was first explicitly elaborated by this eminent geographer, a striking feature of this concept is its appeal to a wide range of disciplinary specialists. No less striking is the degree to which it coheres with anthropological conceptions of culture as…
Longitudinal weight growth patterns in the highland fringes of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: A comparison of three groups
Longitudinal weight growth data from three groups in West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, are compared. A form of analysis based on the four-parameter Jenss curve is adopted, to allow intelligible comparisons of parameter means despite irregular weighing schedules for individual children. Although many weighing records include notes of a child's ill-health (e.g. malaria), omission of these weighings does not have a large effect on the results. …
The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
An Unstable Amalgam: Tracing culture's antinomies to their roots
Christopher Herbert. Culture and anomie: ethnographic imagination in the nineteenth century. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. x, 364pp., references, index, notes. ISBN 0 226 32738 8 (hard); ISBN 0 226 32739 6 (paper)
Agriculture and Sociopolitical Organization in New Guinea Highlands Prehistory
By the New Guinea Highlands we mean the high valleys within the central cordillera of the island between about 1300 and 2500 m, which are the home of relatively large populations living in deforested environments at densities of up to 300 per km2. Our focus is the better-known Papua New Guinea Highlands, which are continuous across Southern Highlands, Enga, Western Highlands, Simbu, and Eastern Highlands Provinces; but from time to time we look b…
Cosmologies In the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. FREDRIK BARTH
Reflections On Society, Culture And Evolution: A critique of Tim Ingold'sEvolution and social life
(1988). Reflections On Society, Culture And Evolution: a critique of Tim Ingold's Evolution and social life. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 44-63
Spirits and Conceptions of Agency Among the Mianmin of Papua New Guinea
Performativity in Ritual: The Mianmin Case
Analyse des rites d'initiation des Mianmin de Nouvelle-Guinee-Papouasie cherchant a evaluer l'adequation theorique de l'approche spectaculaire du rituel elaboree recemment. L'A. prend comme point de depart les travaux de J. L. Austin et sa notion d'acte de parole
The analysis of 'belief' and the Avoidance of ethnocentrism
(1979). The analysis of 'belief' and the Avoidance of ethnocentrism. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 30-43
Performativity in Ritual: The Mianmin Case
Analyse des rites d'initiation des Mianmin de Nouvelle-Guinee-Papouasie cherchant a evaluer l'adequation theorique de l'approche spectaculaire du rituel elaboree recemment. L'A. prend comme point de depart les travaux de J. L. Austin et sa notion d'acte de parole
Simulating the behaviour of light inside Arctic dwellings: Implications for Assessing the Role of Vision in Task Performance
Visibility studies in archaeology have been criticized because they tend to emphasize the importance of vision over other senses. The burgeoning field of sensory anthropology argues that the relative significance of visual, olfactory, acoustic and haptic (touch) senses varies cross-culturally, and is a function of how human beings interact with their particular environments. The Canadian Arctic is a unique sensory environment because prolonged pe…
The analysis of 'belief' and the Avoidance of ethnocentrism
(1979). The analysis of 'belief' and the Avoidance of ethnocentrism. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 30-43
The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
The Scope of 'Meaning' and the Avoidance of Sylleptical Reason: A Plea for Some Modest Distinctions
Keywords: Meaningactionsyllepsisthe problem of meaningWeberGeertz Notes The stimulation provided by this small work is wholly disproportional, since it evokes views and arguments that Sahlins (2004) Sahlins, Marshall. 2004. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [Google Scholar] made in Apologies to Thucydides, which, in turn, reminds the reader of all the marvellously s…
Intensification, Social Production and the Inscrutable Ways of Culture
This paper examines Harold Brookfield's crucial concept of social production in the debates about the development of, and differences between, agricultural systems in central New Guinea. Although it was first explicitly elaborated by this eminent geographer, a striking feature of this concept is its appeal to a wide range of disciplinary specialists. No less striking is the degree to which it coheres with anthropological conceptions of culture as…
An Unstable Amalgam: Tracing culture's antinomies to their roots
Christopher Herbert. Culture and anomie: ethnographic imagination in the nineteenth century. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. x, 364pp., references, index, notes. ISBN 0 226 32738 8 (hard); ISBN 0 226 32739 6 (paper)
Reflections On Society, Culture And Evolution: A critique of Tim Ingold'sEvolution and social life
(1988). Reflections On Society, Culture And Evolution: a critique of Tim Ingold's Evolution and social life. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 44-63
The analysis of 'belief' and the Avoidance of ethnocentrism
(1979). The analysis of 'belief' and the Avoidance of ethnocentrism. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 30-43
Performativity in Ritual: The Mianmin Case
Analyse des rites d'initiation des Mianmin de Nouvelle-Guinee-Papouasie cherchant a evaluer l'adequation theorique de l'approche spectaculaire du rituel elaboree recemment. L'A. prend comme point de depart les travaux de J. L. Austin et sa notion d'acte de parole
Spirits and Conceptions of Agency Among the Mianmin of Papua New Guinea
Cosmologies In the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. FREDRIK BARTH
Reflections On Society, Culture And Evolution: A critique of Tim Ingold'sEvolution and social life
(1988). Reflections On Society, Culture And Evolution: a critique of Tim Ingold's Evolution and social life. Canberra Anthropology: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 44-63
Agriculture and Sociopolitical Organization in New Guinea Highlands Prehistory
By the New Guinea Highlands we mean the high valleys within the central cordillera of the island between about 1300 and 2500 m, which are the home of relatively large populations living in deforested environments at densities of up to 300 per km2. Our focus is the better-known Papua New Guinea Highlands, which are continuous across Southern Highlands, Enga, Western Highlands, Simbu, and Eastern Highlands Provinces; but from time to time we look b…
An Unstable Amalgam: Tracing culture's antinomies to their roots
Christopher Herbert. Culture and anomie: ethnographic imagination in the nineteenth century. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. x, 364pp., references, index, notes. ISBN 0 226 32738 8 (hard); ISBN 0 226 32739 6 (paper)
Longitudinal weight growth patterns in the highland fringes of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea: A comparison of three groups
Longitudinal weight growth data from three groups in West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, are compared. A form of analysis based on the four-parameter Jenss curve is adopted, to allow intelligible comparisons of parameter means despite irregular weighing schedules for individual children. Although many weighing records include notes of a child's ill-health (e.g. malaria), omission of these weighings does not have a large effect on the results. …
The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion
Intensification, Social Production and the Inscrutable Ways of Culture
This paper examines Harold Brookfield's crucial concept of social production in the debates about the development of, and differences between, agricultural systems in central New Guinea. Although it was first explicitly elaborated by this eminent geographer, a striking feature of this concept is its appeal to a wide range of disciplinary specialists. No less striking is the degree to which it coheres with anthropological conceptions of culture as…
Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia
Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melanesia. Edward LiPuma. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 342 pp
Simulating the behaviour of light inside Arctic dwellings: Implications for Assessing the Role of Vision in Task Performance
Visibility studies in archaeology have been criticized because they tend to emphasize the importance of vision over other senses. The burgeoning field of sensory anthropology argues that the relative significance of visual, olfactory, acoustic and haptic (touch) senses varies cross-culturally, and is a function of how human beings interact with their particular environments. The Canadian Arctic is a unique sensory environment because prolonged pe…
The Determinants of Mianmin Settlement and Residential Patterns: A Reply to Morren
Boyd, Brian: On the Origin of Stories. Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Anthropos , Seite 616 - 617
The Scope of 'Meaning' and the Avoidance of Sylleptical Reason: A Plea for Some Modest Distinctions
Keywords: Meaningactionsyllepsisthe problem of meaningWeberGeertz Notes The stimulation provided by this small work is wholly disproportional, since it evokes views and arguments that Sahlins (2004) Sahlins, Marshall. 2004. Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. [Google Scholar] made in Apologies to Thucydides, which, in turn, reminds the reader of all the marvellously s…
Australasian Contrasts
Friendship, Anthropology of
Comment on cosmopolitan politesse
This comment focuses less on the three hopes expressed in Nigel Rapport’s title than on the conception of individuality and its relation to the aspirations of the social sciences that underpins his case for cosmopolitan politesse. First, I want to say that Nigel Rapport’s industry is astonishing. He reads widely, across many genres, and has written a great deal aimed at persuading us of two things: that the social sciences suffer from fundamental…
The swiftness of lightning: The cultural and social dimensions of incised lines on archaeological arrows from alpine ice patches in Canada’s Northwest Territories
This paper examines the significance of incised sinuous lines, known as “lightning lines,” recently identified on two archaeological birch arrows recovered from melting alpine ice patches in Canada’s Subarctic. Ethnographic observations demonstrate that the practice of inscribing similar lines on arrows was widespread across Plains and southern Dene cultures. Archaeological evidence suggests that the trait may be associated with the arrival of a …
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