G Acciaioli
Biographic Data
| ID | 36230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Acciaioli |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Acciaioli |
| SIGNATURE | ACCIAIOLI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4070-5545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Peatland Management and Restoration in Central Kalimantan and Riau: The Role of Local Community Participation
Over the years peatlands in Indonesia have suffered considerable damage, becoming vulnerable to hazards such as fires. The destruction of peatland is due to both legal and illegal logging, along with land conversion for agriculture, mining, and industrial forestry—including the planting of oil palm, paddy rice, and Industrial Forest Plantations (Hutan Tanaman Industri)—all of which lead to forest fires, deforestation, and forest degradation. This…
Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)
Enactment and Transaction in Festival Performance: How Contestations over Representing Adat Contribute to Cultural/Religious Fault Lines in Central Sulawesi
Women's Roles in Enhancing Food Security Through Postharvest Management Among Tharu Indigenous Communities
Postharvest loss in agriculture is considerably high in developing countries due to the lack of infrastructure and technology. Changes in agricultural practices and climate variability further aggravate the risks of postharvest losses. Postharvest loss can be minimized using technologies, including generationally tested local knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, where women play critical roles. Despite its significance in developing new knowledge and…
Evaluating a forestry partnership between a private company and local people in East Kalimantan, Indonesia: A political ecology approach
The national social forestry program, launched to encompass 12.7 million hectares, aims to maintain sustainable forest management, to empower local people in their socioeconomic lives, to open job employment, and to mitigate land tenure conflicts. Community empowerment through forestry partnerships between private companies and local communities seeks to provide the benefit of optimal forest resource management and to operate fairly in order to i…
Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River: Environmental monitoring, social learning and Care of Place in Sabah, Malaysia
This case study contributes to the conceptualisation of, and methodology for, studying caringscapes/carescapes that concern the relations among humans and between human and non‐human subjects. It analyses how some local villagers along the Lower Kinabatangan River express their ‘duty of care’ toward the river through their sustained local participation in restorative work by means of such projects as assessing changing water quality in their wetl…
Community partner viewpoints on forest partnership: Why does it matter
Many studies that have focused on forestry partnerships have failed to examine their substantial impact on social and ecological outcomes from the perspective of community partners in Indonesia. Using Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance Regimes (IFCGs) and qualitative methods, this study, therefore, explores community partners’ views on the quality of their collaboration in the country. The findings indicate that the viewpoints of …
Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality
Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those that might be unproductive from the human point of view. Are there lessons to be learnt about decolonisation of the tropics from a focus on ‘weeds’? The contributors to this photo-essay collectively consider here the lessons that can be learnt about the relationship between colonisation and decolonisation through a visual focus on life forms that h…
Frontier formation in an Indonesian resource site
This article examines the role of transmigration in the formation of a frontier in the Indonesian province of Sulawesi. The "KTM" (Kawasan Terpadu Mandiri - Integrated and Self-Sustained Settlement) initiative, which is funded by the government, provides the primary context. Using ethnographic methods, we identify the first Bugis migration in Indonesia that was funded by the government. The Bugis who settled in Baras were the only ones for whom t…
Hybrid knowledge and climate-resilient agriculture practices of the Tharu in the western Tarai, Nepal
Indigenous knowledge can function as a basis of innovation in agriculture because it is not only culturally accepted, but often also environmentally adaptive. The debates and misunderstandings regarding the relations between Indigenous and scientific knowledge are transforming into a trend to integrate all knowledge to deal with complex issues, such as climate change. In this study we explore the understandings of the Tharu people of their farmin…
A Brief History of the First Global Survey of Anthropological Practice and Some Lessons Learned
This brief article is intended to complement "The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings" in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored t…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Responses of the Tharu to climate change-related hazards in the water sector: Indigenous perceptions, vulnerability and adaptations in the western Tarai of Nepal
Climate change perceptions of Indigenous peoples (IP) are important because of their close connection with nature and the environment. This study assesses climate change insights of the Tharu in Bardiya district of Nepal in relation to climate variability and water sector-related hazards, focussing on Indigenous knowledge (IK) for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture. Tharu are the first settlers in Tarai, Nepal and largely depend on farming.…
Frontir-isasi dan De-frontir-isasi sebagai Kerangka untuk Studi Marjinalitas: Studi Kasus Lindu di Sulawesi Tengah
Drawing on past and recent literature using the concept frontier, this paper presents a case study of processes of frontierisation and defrontierisation in the Lindu plain of Central Sulawesi. After establishing the rationale for a more processual framework to analyse frontiers, it traces the history of the Lindu plain along the four dimensions of frontierisation related to control, extraction, settlement and conservation from the precolonial era…
A ustralian A nthropological S ociety ( AAS )
The Australian Anthropological Society emerged in 1973 as an independent association oriented toward a professional constituency and concerns after the prior establishment of Australian branches of UK‐based academic societies and a number of state‐based associations oriented toward the educated public. It has evolved in line with a mandate to professionalize the discipline in Australia. These professionalizing developments have included elaborati…
Neoliberal Conservation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: Evaluating the approach to environmental education of the transnational conservation organisation Rare
Neoliberal conservation encompasses initiatives and measures depending upon market mechanisms to achieve conservation objectives. Such mechanisms have transformed aspects of nature and its care into commodities to produce a ‘green economy’ as the basis of conservation and sustainable development. Although many such programmes have been subjected to critical analysis, their role in environmental education has received far less attention. This arti…
Foreigners Everywhere, Nationals Nowhere: Exclusion, Irregularity, and Invisibility of Stateless Bajau Laut in Eastern Sabah, Malaysia
This article explores impacts of national and regional policies upon the Bajau Laut, who occupy the maritime border region shared by Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It considers how maritime movements, ethnogenesis, visions for economic development and commercial interaction have evolved in the region. These processes, combined with contemporary nationalism, border securitization, and conservation render such populations both prominent …
Finding Tools to Limit Sectarian Violence in Indonesia: The Relevance of Restorative Justice
This article explores the relevance of the restorative justice paradigm to issues of conflict avoidance and resolution in Indonesia. Sectarian violence engulfed Indonesia in the late 1990s after the fall of the New Order, largely as a result of resource competition and other economic factors. In addition, the revival of customary forms of authority through the national indigenous peoples movement exacerbated the potential for conflict between lon…
Community Driven Development and Structural Disadvantage: Interrogating the Social Turn in Development Programming in Indonesia
Community-driven development (CDD) programmes have emerged on a large scale in the Global South following research and policy work regarding social capital, capabilities and empowerment. This paper analyses one of the largest international examples of the ‘social’ turn, examining the effects of the CDD approach in governmental, structural and relational terms. While the CDD approach successfully generated new political rationalities and governmen…
Special Module: Plenary Debate from the Iuaes World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5-10 August 2013
This module for Involving Anthropology presents an account of one of the plenary debates held at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) World Congress held at Manchester University, 5-10 August 2013. The module begins with a brief introduction to provide the context for the debate, which included two speakers for (Amita Baviskar and Don Nonini) and two speakers against (Helen Kopnina and Veronica Strang) the …
Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes
This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool resource management. Using four case studies—fisheries in Zambia; pasture and forestry in Mali; fisheries in Indonesia; forestry in Bolivia—this approach analyzes examples of local institution building differing from top-down imposed participation.
Memberdayakan kembali ‘Kesenian Totua’: Revitalisasi Adat Masyarakat To Lindu di Sulawesi Tengah
During the new order era local adat was subjected to a process of cultural erosion due to the priorities accorded national integrations, as well as economic, social and development by the Indonesian government. However, the '90s have witnessed a resurgence of concern with adat as a vehicle for the local peoples' identity and as a mechanism for local government and dispute resolution, trends intensified since the beginning of the reformasi era wit…
Bugis Entrepreneurialism and Resource Use: Structure and Practice
Tulisan ini mengkaji beragam aspek dari pemukiman Bugis, organisasi ekonomi dan pemanfaatan sumber daya yang dilaksanakan orang-orang Bugis. Kajian yang dilakukan tidaklah terpaku pada analisis struktural masyarakat Bugis, tetapi lebih pada strategi-strategi dalam memperoleh pencaharian, bertolak dari perspektif teori 'praktis'. Kelenturan dalam komposisi rumah tangga dan para pengikut melandasi kelabilan pengusaha-pengusaha Bugis dan kemampuan p…
The Dialectic of Robert Tonkinson's Dynamic Mode of Argumentation: Paradoxes, Adaptive Strategies, and Accommodations
This introductory essay presents a genealogy, admittedly partial, of Robert Tonkinson's theorisation, focusing upon how his mode of conceptualising the ethnographic issues he has traversed is basically a dialectical approach. In part such conceptualisation is understandable in terms of how his background has brought together a number of contrasting perspectives-detailed ethnography of specific situations and an abiding 'uncontrolled' comparative …
Lake and Land at Lindu: Imposition, Accommodation and Contestation in the Revaluation of Resources in Upland Central Sulawesi
Culture as art: From Practice to Spectacle in Indonesia
Etude de l'esthetisation des pratiques culturelles traditionnelles, comme la danse, en Indonesie. La signification de la tradition, adat, s'est transformee et son sens religieux profond se perd au profit de la diversite de ses manifestations (Enquete realisee a Sulawesi
Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes
This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool resource management. Using four case studies—fisheries in Zambia; pasture and forestry in Mali; fisheries in Indonesia; forestry in Bolivia—this approach analyzes examples of local institution building differing from top-down imposed participation.
Grounds of Conflict, Idioms of Harmony: Custom, Religion, and Nationalism in Violence Avoidance at the Lindu Plain, Central Sulawesi
Kinship and debt; The social organization of Bugis migration and fish marketing at Lake Lindu, Central Sulawesi
Kinship and debtThe social organization of Bugis migration and fish marketing at Lake Lindu, Centra1 Sulawesi .Ironically, introduction of such fish as tilapia has led to the near extinction of indigenous fish species and fresh-water rnussels (Whitten et al. 1987:51-2, 293).In keeping with the ethnic classifications of the time, the Lindu people were considered as one of the groups comprising the West Toradjas of Centra1 Sulawesi (Kruyt 1938).Con…
Knowing what you're doing: A Review of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice
Knowledge, however interesting, can never be disinterested. Modes of explanation need themselves to be explained in terms of the biases and purposes generating them. Given this realization, an apprehension embedded in our intellectual tradition since at least the sophists, explanatory accounts and the often implicit styles of understanding that inform them have inevitably generated critiques that seek to situate such received interpretations in t…
Foreigners Everywhere, Nationals Nowhere: Exclusion, Irregularity, and Invisibility of Stateless Bajau Laut in Eastern Sabah, Malaysia
This article explores impacts of national and regional policies upon the Bajau Laut, who occupy the maritime border region shared by Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It considers how maritime movements, ethnogenesis, visions for economic development and commercial interaction have evolved in the region. These processes, combined with contemporary nationalism, border securitization, and conservation render such populations both prominent …
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology
(1999). Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 63-74
Weedy Life: Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Tropicality
Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those that might be unproductive from the human point of view. Are there lessons to be learnt about decolonisation of the tropics from a focus on ‘weeds’? The contributors to this photo-essay collectively consider here the lessons that can be learnt about the relationship between colonisation and decolonisation through a visual focus on life forms that h…
Special Module: Plenary Debate from the Iuaes World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5-10 August 2013
This module for Involving Anthropology presents an account of one of the plenary debates held at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) World Congress held at Manchester University, 5-10 August 2013. The module begins with a brief introduction to provide the context for the debate, which included two speakers for (Amita Baviskar and Don Nonini) and two speakers against (Helen Kopnina and Veronica Strang) the …
The Dialectic of Robert Tonkinson's Dynamic Mode of Argumentation: Paradoxes, Adaptive Strategies, and Accommodations
This introductory essay presents a genealogy, admittedly partial, of Robert Tonkinson's theorisation, focusing upon how his mode of conceptualising the ethnographic issues he has traversed is basically a dialectical approach. In part such conceptualisation is understandable in terms of how his background has brought together a number of contrasting perspectives-detailed ethnography of specific situations and an abiding 'uncontrolled' comparative …
How to win followers and influence spirits: Propitiation and participation in a multi-ethnic community of central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Women's Roles in Enhancing Food Security Through Postharvest Management Among Tharu Indigenous Communities
Postharvest loss in agriculture is considerably high in developing countries due to the lack of infrastructure and technology. Changes in agricultural practices and climate variability further aggravate the risks of postharvest losses. Postharvest loss can be minimized using technologies, including generationally tested local knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, where women play critical roles. Despite its significance in developing new knowledge and…
Hybrid knowledge and climate-resilient agriculture practices of the Tharu in the western Tarai, Nepal
Indigenous knowledge can function as a basis of innovation in agriculture because it is not only culturally accepted, but often also environmentally adaptive. The debates and misunderstandings regarding the relations between Indigenous and scientific knowledge are transforming into a trend to integrate all knowledge to deal with complex issues, such as climate change. In this study we explore the understandings of the Tharu people of their farmin…
Finding Tools to Limit Sectarian Violence in Indonesia: The Relevance of Restorative Justice
This article explores the relevance of the restorative justice paradigm to issues of conflict avoidance and resolution in Indonesia. Sectarian violence engulfed Indonesia in the late 1990s after the fall of the New Order, largely as a result of resource competition and other economic factors. In addition, the revival of customary forms of authority through the national indigenous peoples movement exacerbated the potential for conflict between lon…
Knowing what you're doing: A Review of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice
Knowledge, however interesting, can never be disinterested. Modes of explanation need themselves to be explained in terms of the biases and purposes generating them. Given this realization, an apprehension embedded in our intellectual tradition since at least the sophists, explanatory accounts and the often implicit styles of understanding that inform them have inevitably generated critiques that seek to situate such received interpretations in t…
Briefly noted
G. Miller, Indonesian and Malayan Traditional Manuscripts held in Public Collections in Australia, Bibliographic series No 2, The Library, Australian National University, Canberra, 1982, xiv, 81 pp. Paper: n.p.g. Krirkkiat Phipatseritham & Kunio Yoshihara, Business Groups in Thailand, Research Notes and Discussions Paper no. 41, ISEAS, Singapore, 1983. v, 38 pp. Preface, introduction, appendices. Paper: n.p.g. Kramol Tongdhamachart, Toward a Poli…
Culture as art: From Practice to Spectacle in Indonesia
Etude de l'esthetisation des pratiques culturelles traditionnelles, comme la danse, en Indonesie. La signification de la tradition, adat, s'est transformee et son sens religieux profond se perd au profit de la diversite de ses manifestations (Enquete realisee a Sulawesi
Taro Goh 1958-1988
How to win followers and influence spirits: Propitiation and participation in a multi-ethnic community of central Sulawesi, Indonesia
My Rice Field Is My Child: Social and Territorial Aspects of Swidden Cultivation in Sahu, Eastern Indonesia. Leontine E. Visser. Rita Decoursey, trans
The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanship
Innocence Lost: Evaluating an Experimental Era in Ethnographic Film
Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology
(1999). Challenges for the social sciences and Australia: Anthropology. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 63-74
Authority and Enterprise: Among the People of South South Sulawesi
Kinship and debt; The social organization of Bugis migration and fish marketing at Lake Lindu, Central Sulawesi
Kinship and debtThe social organization of Bugis migration and fish marketing at Lake Lindu, Centra1 Sulawesi .Ironically, introduction of such fish as tilapia has led to the near extinction of indigenous fish species and fresh-water rnussels (Whitten et al. 1987:51-2, 293).In keeping with the ethnic classifications of the time, the Lindu people were considered as one of the groups comprising the West Toradjas of Centra1 Sulawesi (Kruyt 1938).Con…
Grounds of Conflict, Idioms of Harmony: Custom, Religion, and Nationalism in Violence Avoidance at the Lindu Plain, Central Sulawesi
Strategy and subjectivity in co-management of the Lore Lindu National Park (Central Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Introduction In the wake of failures to maintain protected areas based on strict exclusion – the ‘fortress’ approach deriving from the Yellowstone model – considerable efforts have been made to involve peoples living in and around such areas in various co-management schemes to invoke their own sense of interest in protecting the natural resources of such areas. However, park managers have increasingly felt that effective deployment of committed p…
Distinguishing Hierarchy and Precedence: Comparing status distinctions in South Asia and the Austronesian world, with special reference to South Sulawesi
Lake and Land at Lindu: Imposition, Accommodation and Contestation in the Revaluation of Resources in Upland Central Sulawesi
The Dialectic of Robert Tonkinson's Dynamic Mode of Argumentation: Paradoxes, Adaptive Strategies, and Accommodations
This introductory essay presents a genealogy, admittedly partial, of Robert Tonkinson's theorisation, focusing upon how his mode of conceptualising the ethnographic issues he has traversed is basically a dialectical approach. In part such conceptualisation is understandable in terms of how his background has brought together a number of contrasting perspectives-detailed ethnography of specific situations and an abiding 'uncontrolled' comparative …
Memberdayakan kembali ‘Kesenian Totua’: Revitalisasi Adat Masyarakat To Lindu di Sulawesi Tengah
During the new order era local adat was subjected to a process of cultural erosion due to the priorities accorded national integrations, as well as economic, social and development by the Indonesian government. However, the '90s have witnessed a resurgence of concern with adat as a vehicle for the local peoples' identity and as a mechanism for local government and dispute resolution, trends intensified since the beginning of the reformasi era wit…
Bugis Entrepreneurialism and Resource Use: Structure and Practice
Tulisan ini mengkaji beragam aspek dari pemukiman Bugis, organisasi ekonomi dan pemanfaatan sumber daya yang dilaksanakan orang-orang Bugis. Kajian yang dilakukan tidaklah terpaku pada analisis struktural masyarakat Bugis, tetapi lebih pada strategi-strategi dalam memperoleh pencaharian, bertolak dari perspektif teori 'praktis'. Kelenturan dalam komposisi rumah tangga dan para pengikut melandasi kelabilan pengusaha-pengusaha Bugis dan kemampuan p…
Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes
This article presents constitutionality as a new approach for analyzing bottom-up institution-building processes emphasizing local perceptions and local agency in common pool resource management. Using four case studies—fisheries in Zambia; pasture and forestry in Mali; fisheries in Indonesia; forestry in Bolivia—this approach analyzes examples of local institution building differing from top-down imposed participation.
Community Driven Development and Structural Disadvantage: Interrogating the Social Turn in Development Programming in Indonesia
Community-driven development (CDD) programmes have emerged on a large scale in the Global South following research and policy work regarding social capital, capabilities and empowerment. This paper analyses one of the largest international examples of the ‘social’ turn, examining the effects of the CDD approach in governmental, structural and relational terms. While the CDD approach successfully generated new political rationalities and governmen…
Special Module: Plenary Debate from the Iuaes World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5-10 August 2013
This module for Involving Anthropology presents an account of one of the plenary debates held at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) World Congress held at Manchester University, 5-10 August 2013. The module begins with a brief introduction to provide the context for the debate, which included two speakers for (Amita Baviskar and Don Nonini) and two speakers against (Helen Kopnina and Veronica Strang) the …
Foreigners Everywhere, Nationals Nowhere: Exclusion, Irregularity, and Invisibility of Stateless Bajau Laut in Eastern Sabah, Malaysia
This article explores impacts of national and regional policies upon the Bajau Laut, who occupy the maritime border region shared by Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It considers how maritime movements, ethnogenesis, visions for economic development and commercial interaction have evolved in the region. These processes, combined with contemporary nationalism, border securitization, and conservation render such populations both prominent …
Finding Tools to Limit Sectarian Violence in Indonesia: The Relevance of Restorative Justice
This article explores the relevance of the restorative justice paradigm to issues of conflict avoidance and resolution in Indonesia. Sectarian violence engulfed Indonesia in the late 1990s after the fall of the New Order, largely as a result of resource competition and other economic factors. In addition, the revival of customary forms of authority through the national indigenous peoples movement exacerbated the potential for conflict between lon…
A ustralian A nthropological S ociety ( AAS )
The Australian Anthropological Society emerged in 1973 as an independent association oriented toward a professional constituency and concerns after the prior establishment of Australian branches of UK‐based academic societies and a number of state‐based associations oriented toward the educated public. It has evolved in line with a mandate to professionalize the discipline in Australia. These professionalizing developments have included elaborati…
Neoliberal Conservation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: Evaluating the approach to environmental education of the transnational conservation organisation Rare
Neoliberal conservation encompasses initiatives and measures depending upon market mechanisms to achieve conservation objectives. Such mechanisms have transformed aspects of nature and its care into commodities to produce a ‘green economy’ as the basis of conservation and sustainable development. Although many such programmes have been subjected to critical analysis, their role in environmental education has received far less attention. This arti…
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