Lee Sackett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Sackett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Sackett |
| SIGNATURE | SACKETT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Descent, to Multiple Pathways, to Descent: What's Happening in the Western Desert
In this paper, I explore ways in which Western Desert land tenure has been presented and is being enacted. In particular, I consider how life might be said to follow modelling. Early on, researchers depicted the situation as largely one of patrilineal descent. In more recent years, that earlier view has been overturned in favour of conceptualising the situation as one wherein people may come to land ownership along an array of pathways. However, …
Law's anthropology: From ethnography to expert testimony in native title, by Paul Burke
Law's anthropology: From ethnography to expert testimony in native title, by Paul Burke. ANU E Press, Canberra, 2011, x + 326pp., maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-9218-6242-7
A Post‐modern Panopticon: The Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
In this paper I examine the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission from a Foucauldian perspective. I argue that the inquiry was an(other) act of state surveillance, and that many of the recommendations, if implemented, would further extend the scrutiny of Aboriginal lives. Additionally, I consider the way the ‘individualizing knowledge’ (Foucault 1979, p. 126) of the deceased was used to control the interpretation of their deaths
Promoting Primitivism: Conservationist Depictions of Aboriginal Australians 1
Aborigines, like native Americans and others, face the unending task of resisting attempts, on the one hand to cut them off from their ‘heritage’, and on the other to bury them within it as ‘a thing of the past’ (Beckett 1988: 212)
Aboriginal Violence: Responding to the Tatz view
In the previous issue of AJSI (November, 1990), Colin Tatz proclaims his chagrin with Aboriginal affairs and the state of play in Aboriginal communities. I in turn am dismayed by the thrust of his ‘essay’. Although I broadly share Tatz's concerns regarding the way events have unraveled, and concur with his suggestion that current policy lacks a sense of history and that a number of realities need to be faced, I part company with him when it comes…
Marching into the past: Anzac day celebrations in Adelaide
(1985). Marching into the past: Anzac day celebrations in Adelaide. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 17, pp. 18-30
Alcohol and Ethnography: A Case of Problem Deflation? [and Comments and Reply]
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
Lodging a Reply to Shapiro
Working for the law: Aspects of economics in a western desert community
(1980). Working for the law: Aspects of economics in a western desert community. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 122-132
The Pursuit of Prominence: Hunting in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Cet article traite de la chasse chez des groupes centres sur la tradition. Apres avoir revu differentes manieres dont des cas semblables ont ete traites, l'auteur presente une description detaillee d'une expedition de chasse et de sa situation ethnographique. On soutient que pour bien apprecier l'importance de la poursuite et de la consommation du gibier, ces activites doivent etre placees dans leur contexte socio-culturel. Leurs associations ave…
Punishment in Ritual: “Man Making” Among Western Desert Aborigines1
Confronting the dreamtime: Belief and symbolism in an aboriginal ritual
Le probleme de la connaissance qu'ont les Aborigenes australiens de la relation entre acte sexuel et grossesse est aborde par l'etude du symbolisme sexuel dans leurs rituels. L'exemple d'un rituel Djabija a Wiluna (Australie
Indirect Exchange in a Symmetrical System: Marriage Alliance in the Western Desert of Australia
Exogamy or endogamy: Kinship and marriage at Wiluna, Western Australia
Contact and the adoption of a semi‐sedentary life‐style have brought about a great deal of disruption in the socio‐cultural system of the Western Desert Aborigines. But this does not mean there has been a total break with the past. This article examines certain of the persistences and changes in Aboriginal kinship and marriage practices as they occur among the ex‐desert peoples now living near Wiluna, Western Australia. It is suggested that while…
A Note on “Measurable Prediction” Theory as Applied to Cargo Cults1
Alcohol and Ethnography: A Case of Problem Deflation? [and Comments and Reply]
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
The Pursuit of Prominence: Hunting in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Cet article traite de la chasse chez des groupes centres sur la tradition. Apres avoir revu differentes manieres dont des cas semblables ont ete traites, l'auteur presente une description detaillee d'une expedition de chasse et de sa situation ethnographique. On soutient que pour bien apprecier l'importance de la poursuite et de la consommation du gibier, ces activites doivent etre placees dans leur contexte socio-culturel. Leurs associations ave…
Confronting the dreamtime: Belief and symbolism in an aboriginal ritual
Le probleme de la connaissance qu'ont les Aborigenes australiens de la relation entre acte sexuel et grossesse est aborde par l'etude du symbolisme sexuel dans leurs rituels. L'exemple d'un rituel Djabija a Wiluna (Australie
A Post‐modern Panopticon: The Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
In this paper I examine the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission from a Foucauldian perspective. I argue that the inquiry was an(other) act of state surveillance, and that many of the recommendations, if implemented, would further extend the scrutiny of Aboriginal lives. Additionally, I consider the way the ‘individualizing knowledge’ (Foucault 1979, p. 126) of the deceased was used to control the interpretation of their deaths
Marching into the past: Anzac day celebrations in Adelaide
(1985). Marching into the past: Anzac day celebrations in Adelaide. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 17, pp. 18-30
Indirect Exchange in a Symmetrical System: Marriage Alliance in the Western Desert of Australia
Exogamy or endogamy: Kinship and marriage at Wiluna, Western Australia
Contact and the adoption of a semi‐sedentary life‐style have brought about a great deal of disruption in the socio‐cultural system of the Western Desert Aborigines. But this does not mean there has been a total break with the past. This article examines certain of the persistences and changes in Aboriginal kinship and marriage practices as they occur among the ex‐desert peoples now living near Wiluna, Western Australia. It is suggested that while…
A Note on “Measurable Prediction” Theory as Applied to Cargo Cults1
From Descent, to Multiple Pathways, to Descent: What's Happening in the Western Desert
In this paper, I explore ways in which Western Desert land tenure has been presented and is being enacted. In particular, I consider how life might be said to follow modelling. Early on, researchers depicted the situation as largely one of patrilineal descent. In more recent years, that earlier view has been overturned in favour of conceptualising the situation as one wherein people may come to land ownership along an array of pathways. However, …
Aboriginal Violence: Responding to the Tatz view
In the previous issue of AJSI (November, 1990), Colin Tatz proclaims his chagrin with Aboriginal affairs and the state of play in Aboriginal communities. I in turn am dismayed by the thrust of his ‘essay’. Although I broadly share Tatz's concerns regarding the way events have unraveled, and concur with his suggestion that current policy lacks a sense of history and that a number of realities need to be faced, I part company with him when it comes…
Working for the law: Aspects of economics in a western desert community
(1980). Working for the law: Aspects of economics in a western desert community. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 122-132
A Note on “Measurable Prediction” Theory as Applied to Cargo Cults1
Exogamy or endogamy: Kinship and marriage at Wiluna, Western Australia
Contact and the adoption of a semi‐sedentary life‐style have brought about a great deal of disruption in the socio‐cultural system of the Western Desert Aborigines. But this does not mean there has been a total break with the past. This article examines certain of the persistences and changes in Aboriginal kinship and marriage practices as they occur among the ex‐desert peoples now living near Wiluna, Western Australia. It is suggested that while…
Indirect Exchange in a Symmetrical System: Marriage Alliance in the Western Desert of Australia
Confronting the dreamtime: Belief and symbolism in an aboriginal ritual
Le probleme de la connaissance qu'ont les Aborigenes australiens de la relation entre acte sexuel et grossesse est aborde par l'etude du symbolisme sexuel dans leurs rituels. L'exemple d'un rituel Djabija a Wiluna (Australie
Punishment in Ritual: “Man Making” Among Western Desert Aborigines1
The Pursuit of Prominence: Hunting in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Cet article traite de la chasse chez des groupes centres sur la tradition. Apres avoir revu differentes manieres dont des cas semblables ont ete traites, l'auteur presente une description detaillee d'une expedition de chasse et de sa situation ethnographique. On soutient que pour bien apprecier l'importance de la poursuite et de la consommation du gibier, ces activites doivent etre placees dans leur contexte socio-culturel. Leurs associations ave…
Working for the law: Aspects of economics in a western desert community
(1980). Working for the law: Aspects of economics in a western desert community. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 122-132
Lodging a Reply to Shapiro
Alcohol and Ethnography: A Case of Problem Deflation? [and Comments and Reply]
The modern ethnographic literature on alcohol tends to underestimate problems due to drinking. This "problem deflation" probably reflects a concurrence of various assumptions, methods, and theoretical orientations. Functionalist assumptions direct attention more to the gains than to the losses involved in drinking. The pleasures of drinking are more easily observed, given the ethnographer's focus on the everyday and the social, than the private p…
Marching into the past: Anzac day celebrations in Adelaide
(1985). Marching into the past: Anzac day celebrations in Adelaide. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 9, No. 17, pp. 18-30
Promoting Primitivism: Conservationist Depictions of Aboriginal Australians 1
Aborigines, like native Americans and others, face the unending task of resisting attempts, on the one hand to cut them off from their ‘heritage’, and on the other to bury them within it as ‘a thing of the past’ (Beckett 1988: 212)
Aboriginal Violence: Responding to the Tatz view
In the previous issue of AJSI (November, 1990), Colin Tatz proclaims his chagrin with Aboriginal affairs and the state of play in Aboriginal communities. I in turn am dismayed by the thrust of his ‘essay’. Although I broadly share Tatz's concerns regarding the way events have unraveled, and concur with his suggestion that current policy lacks a sense of history and that a number of realities need to be faced, I part company with him when it comes…
A Post‐modern Panopticon: The Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
In this paper I examine the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission from a Foucauldian perspective. I argue that the inquiry was an(other) act of state surveillance, and that many of the recommendations, if implemented, would further extend the scrutiny of Aboriginal lives. Additionally, I consider the way the ‘individualizing knowledge’ (Foucault 1979, p. 126) of the deceased was used to control the interpretation of their deaths
Law's anthropology: From ethnography to expert testimony in native title, by Paul Burke
Law's anthropology: From ethnography to expert testimony in native title, by Paul Burke. ANU E Press, Canberra, 2011, x + 326pp., maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-1-9218-6242-7
From Descent, to Multiple Pathways, to Descent: What's Happening in the Western Desert
In this paper, I explore ways in which Western Desert land tenure has been presented and is being enacted. In particular, I consider how life might be said to follow modelling. Early on, researchers depicted the situation as largely one of patrilineal descent. In more recent years, that earlier view has been overturned in favour of conceptualising the situation as one wherein people may come to land ownership along an array of pathways. However, …
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