Benjamin R Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 459398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin R Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6915-6626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Baldwin as phonographer
William Baldwin wrote a variety of kinds of books, but through them all he displayed his skills as a phonographer, as a writer of sound. Geoffrey Streamer’s story about hearing animals speak is the best known of these works, but Baldwin’s compilation of ‘sayings’ of philosophers, his ballading of The Song of Solomon on the model of Sternhold’s Psalm tunes, his noisy tour of Hell in his satire on the death of Bishop Paul III of Rome, the transcrib…
‘Indigenous’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula
Sorcery and the dividual in Australia
In this article I present an analysis of Australian Aboriginal sorcery, applying concepts from the New Melanesian Ethnography. My starting-point is Keen's approach to magic among the Yolngu, which engages Strathern's concept of the dividual, but which focuses on the extension of partible aspects of the person in space and time. Building on Keen's analysis, I draw on ethnographic material from Cape York Peninsula to argue that Aboriginal sorcery m…
Taking the Measure of Global Space
Euclidean geometry instructs us to think of space in visual terms as points, lines, and shapes, but a more adventurous geometry would take into account the subjectivity of the perceiver. When we try out that approach on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, situating them within the built environment of the 1599 Globe Theater, we discover not one measure of space but ten: (1) geographical, (2) temporal, (3) fictional, (4) characterological, (5) soc…
The Ayapathu people of Cape York Peninsula
The Ayapathu people of central Cape York Peninsula have, at best, received only passing mention in anthropological accounts. This appears to have been the result of colo nial impact on the region and its associated socio-cultural disruption. Whilst neighbouring groups faced similar disruption, in the case of Ayapathu-speaking clans it appears to have been great enough to result in the disappearance of an Ayapathu iden tity in the region for many …
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson
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Still Under the Act? Subjectivity and the State in Aboriginal North Queensland
Both the colonial encapsulation and post‐colonial recognition of North Queensland's Aboriginal population have been achieved through legislative demarcation. This paper explores the way such demarcation has extended the influence of the state within local Aboriginal life‐worlds, focusing on the State of Queensland's Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 and the Commonwealth's Native Title Act 1993 . Drawing on ethno…
Ties that Bind
Photographs are a ubiquitous feature of Aboriginal life in Northeastern Australia, with images of relatives being prominently displayed in most Aboriginal houses. This display of photographs is tied to a form of distributed personhood that draws on photographs to create a sense of social immediacy in the absence of close kin. This sense of immediacy also occurs in relation to photographs of the dead, giving these images a particular force for Abo…
Introduction
The Social Effects of Native Title
Towards an uncertain community?The social effects of native title in central Cape York Peninsula
Body, Mind and Spirit? Towards an Analysis of the Practice of Yoga
This article presents an initial analysis of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, a variety of 'modern postural yoga'. The article theorizes the embodied experience of a ̄sana ('yoga postures'), drawing on ethnographic research with Western practitioners in India and Australia and on the author's own practice. Building on phenomenological and cultural theories of embodiment, it is suggested that the experience of yoga practitioners has particular somatic found…
The social effects of native title
Native title has had a profound social impact in Australia. Its effects have been felt from the local level through to the national level ever since the success of the Mabo No.2 case in the Federal Court. But despite the involvement of large numbers of anthropologists in the field of native title practice (alongside lawyers, historians, archaeologists and others trained in the social sciences and humanities) there has been surprisingly little ref…
Local Science vs Global Science
‘Indigenous’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula
More than Love
The issue of personal and family connections to traditional homelands has been the subject of considerable attention-and dispute-in Australia's 'native title era'. This paper examines contemporary Indigenous connections to country in Central Cape York Peninsula and, in particular, the affective aspects of local and diaspora ties to place. Drawing on recent theorisations of place and locality, I outline some of the ways in which Indigenous attachm…
Images, Selves, and the Visual Record
This essay addresses anthropological engagement with photography in indigenous Australian contexts. Following the work of Gell and Edwards, and drawing on the history of photography and ethnography in central Cape York Peninsula, I explore some ways that
Pastoralism, local knowledge and Australian aboriginal development in Northern Queensland
Over the past three years, Indigenous policy in Australia has taken an interventionist turn. The work of Noel Pearson (see Pearson 2000), a prominent Indigenous intellectual from Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, has provided much of the impetus for this push. As a result, the chronic social problems of the Peninsula's Aboriginal communities have become a focus of state and federal government action, driven by the recommendations of the…
"Whither "certainty'? Coexistence, change and land rights in northern Queensland
This article does not have an abstract
How Sound is Sound History? A Response to Mark Smith
Mouthpieces
Piture this: "The sea coasts of Virginia arre full of Ila[n]ds, wehr by the entrance into the mayne la[n]d is hard to finde. For although they bee separated with diuers and sundrie large Diuision, which seem to yeeld conuenient entrance, yet to our great perill we proued that they wear shallowe, and full of dangerous flatts, and could neuer perce opp into the mayne la[n]d, vntill wee made trialls in many places with o[u]r small pinnace." 1 So beg…
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England
Sexual Dissidence
Part 1 An encounter: Wilde and Gide in Algiers. Part 2 Perspectives: some parameters. Part 3 Subjectivity, transgression and deviant desire: becoming authentic Wilde's transgressive aesthetic and contemporary cultural politics re-encounters. Part 4 Transgression and its containment: the politics of containment tragedy and containment. Part 5 Perversion's lost histories: towards the paradoxical perverse and the perverse dynamic Augustine - pervers…
Body, Mind and Spirit? Towards an Analysis of the Practice of Yoga
This article presents an initial analysis of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, a variety of 'modern postural yoga'. The article theorizes the embodied experience of a ̄sana ('yoga postures'), drawing on ethnographic research with Western practitioners in India and Australia and on the author's own practice. Building on phenomenological and cultural theories of embodiment, it is suggested that the experience of yoga practitioners has particular somatic found…
The Social Effects of Native Title
Towards an uncertain community?The social effects of native title in central Cape York Peninsula
More than Love
The issue of personal and family connections to traditional homelands has been the subject of considerable attention-and dispute-in Australia's 'native title era'. This paper examines contemporary Indigenous connections to country in Central Cape York Peninsula and, in particular, the affective aspects of local and diaspora ties to place. Drawing on recent theorisations of place and locality, I outline some of the ways in which Indigenous attachm…
"Whither "certainty'? Coexistence, change and land rights in northern Queensland
This article does not have an abstract
Ties that Bind
Photographs are a ubiquitous feature of Aboriginal life in Northeastern Australia, with images of relatives being prominently displayed in most Aboriginal houses. This display of photographs is tied to a form of distributed personhood that draws on photographs to create a sense of social immediacy in the absence of close kin. This sense of immediacy also occurs in relation to photographs of the dead, giving these images a particular force for Abo…
Introduction
Sorcery and the dividual in Australia
In this article I present an analysis of Australian Aboriginal sorcery, applying concepts from the New Melanesian Ethnography. My starting-point is Keen's approach to magic among the Yolngu, which engages Strathern's concept of the dividual, but which focuses on the extension of partible aspects of the person in space and time. Building on Keen's analysis, I draw on ethnographic material from Cape York Peninsula to argue that Aboriginal sorcery m…
Pastoralism, local knowledge and Australian aboriginal development in Northern Queensland
Over the past three years, Indigenous policy in Australia has taken an interventionist turn. The work of Noel Pearson (see Pearson 2000), a prominent Indigenous intellectual from Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, has provided much of the impetus for this push. As a result, the chronic social problems of the Peninsula's Aboriginal communities have become a focus of state and federal government action, driven by the recommendations of the…
The social effects of native title
Native title has had a profound social impact in Australia. Its effects have been felt from the local level through to the national level ever since the success of the Mabo No.2 case in the Federal Court. But despite the involvement of large numbers of anthropologists in the field of native title practice (alongside lawyers, historians, archaeologists and others trained in the social sciences and humanities) there has been surprisingly little ref…
How Sound is Sound History? A Response to Mark Smith
Mouthpieces
Piture this: "The sea coasts of Virginia arre full of Ila[n]ds, wehr by the entrance into the mayne la[n]d is hard to finde. For although they bee separated with diuers and sundrie large Diuision, which seem to yeeld conuenient entrance, yet to our great perill we proued that they wear shallowe, and full of dangerous flatts, and could neuer perce opp into the mayne la[n]d, vntill wee made trialls in many places with o[u]r small pinnace." 1 So beg…
Sexual Dissidence
Part 1 An encounter: Wilde and Gide in Algiers. Part 2 Perspectives: some parameters. Part 3 Subjectivity, transgression and deviant desire: becoming authentic Wilde's transgressive aesthetic and contemporary cultural politics re-encounters. Part 4 Transgression and its containment: the politics of containment tragedy and containment. Part 5 Perversion's lost histories: towards the paradoxical perverse and the perverse dynamic Augustine - pervers…
Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England
Mouthpieces
Piture this: "The sea coasts of Virginia arre full of Ila[n]ds, wehr by the entrance into the mayne la[n]d is hard to finde. For although they bee separated with diuers and sundrie large Diuision, which seem to yeeld conuenient entrance, yet to our great perill we proued that they wear shallowe, and full of dangerous flatts, and could neuer perce opp into the mayne la[n]d, vntill wee made trialls in many places with o[u]r small pinnace." 1 So beg…
How Sound is Sound History? A Response to Mark Smith
Images, Selves, and the Visual Record
This essay addresses anthropological engagement with photography in indigenous Australian contexts. Following the work of Gell and Edwards, and drawing on the history of photography and ethnography in central Cape York Peninsula, I explore some ways that
Pastoralism, local knowledge and Australian aboriginal development in Northern Queensland
Over the past three years, Indigenous policy in Australia has taken an interventionist turn. The work of Noel Pearson (see Pearson 2000), a prominent Indigenous intellectual from Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, has provided much of the impetus for this push. As a result, the chronic social problems of the Peninsula's Aboriginal communities have become a focus of state and federal government action, driven by the recommendations of the…
"Whither "certainty'? Coexistence, change and land rights in northern Queensland
This article does not have an abstract
Local Science vs Global Science
‘Indigenous’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula
More than Love
The issue of personal and family connections to traditional homelands has been the subject of considerable attention-and dispute-in Australia's 'native title era'. This paper examines contemporary Indigenous connections to country in Central Cape York Peninsula and, in particular, the affective aspects of local and diaspora ties to place. Drawing on recent theorisations of place and locality, I outline some of the ways in which Indigenous attachm…
The Social Effects of Native Title
Towards an uncertain community?The social effects of native title in central Cape York Peninsula
Body, Mind and Spirit? Towards an Analysis of the Practice of Yoga
This article presents an initial analysis of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, a variety of 'modern postural yoga'. The article theorizes the embodied experience of a ̄sana ('yoga postures'), drawing on ethnographic research with Western practitioners in India and Australia and on the author's own practice. Building on phenomenological and cultural theories of embodiment, it is suggested that the experience of yoga practitioners has particular somatic found…
The social effects of native title
Native title has had a profound social impact in Australia. Its effects have been felt from the local level through to the national level ever since the success of the Mabo No.2 case in the Federal Court. But despite the involvement of large numbers of anthropologists in the field of native title practice (alongside lawyers, historians, archaeologists and others trained in the social sciences and humanities) there has been surprisingly little ref…
Still Under the Act? Subjectivity and the State in Aboriginal North Queensland
Both the colonial encapsulation and post‐colonial recognition of North Queensland's Aboriginal population have been achieved through legislative demarcation. This paper explores the way such demarcation has extended the influence of the state within local Aboriginal life‐worlds, focusing on the State of Queensland's Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 and the Commonwealth's Native Title Act 1993 . Drawing on ethno…
Ties that Bind
Photographs are a ubiquitous feature of Aboriginal life in Northeastern Australia, with images of relatives being prominently displayed in most Aboriginal houses. This display of photographs is tied to a form of distributed personhood that draws on photographs to create a sense of social immediacy in the absence of close kin. This sense of immediacy also occurs in relation to photographs of the dead, giving these images a particular force for Abo…
Introduction
The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Ayapathu people of Cape York Peninsula
The Ayapathu people of central Cape York Peninsula have, at best, received only passing mention in anthropological accounts. This appears to have been the result of colo nial impact on the region and its associated socio-cultural disruption. Whilst neighbouring groups faced similar disruption, in the case of Ayapathu-speaking clans it appears to have been great enough to result in the disappearance of an Ayapathu iden tity in the region for many …
Taking the Measure of Global Space
Euclidean geometry instructs us to think of space in visual terms as points, lines, and shapes, but a more adventurous geometry would take into account the subjectivity of the perceiver. When we try out that approach on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, situating them within the built environment of the 1599 Globe Theater, we discover not one measure of space but ten: (1) geographical, (2) temporal, (3) fictional, (4) characterological, (5) soc…
Sorcery and the dividual in Australia
In this article I present an analysis of Australian Aboriginal sorcery, applying concepts from the New Melanesian Ethnography. My starting-point is Keen's approach to magic among the Yolngu, which engages Strathern's concept of the dividual, but which focuses on the extension of partible aspects of the person in space and time. Building on Keen's analysis, I draw on ethnographic material from Cape York Peninsula to argue that Aboriginal sorcery m…
‘Indigenous’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Central Cape York Peninsula
Baldwin as phonographer
William Baldwin wrote a variety of kinds of books, but through them all he displayed his skills as a phonographer, as a writer of sound. Geoffrey Streamer’s story about hearing animals speak is the best known of these works, but Baldwin’s compilation of ‘sayings’ of philosophers, his ballading of The Song of Solomon on the model of Sternhold’s Psalm tunes, his noisy tour of Hell in his satire on the death of Bishop Paul III of Rome, the transcrib…
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