Diane Austin‐Broos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5404140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Austin‐Broos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin‐Broos |
| SIGNATURE | BROOS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jamaican Pentecostalism: Its growth and significance
The article discusses the significance of Jamaican Pentecostalism, one of a number of new religions that entered or developed in Jamaica between 1890 and 1930. It locates this missionary religion from the United States in the context of local and regional socio-economic changes, which brought both external and internal migrations to Jamaica. In turn, these changes transformed rural and urban life in ways that facilitated new directions in religio…
Stuart Hall and Jamaica
Though Stuart Hall left Jamaica as a young man in 1951, reflections on his birthplace and its people’s diaspora significantly shaped the method that would become a cultural studies. This essay examines the nature of this influence as evidenced in some of Hall’s early and much later writing
Urban Life in Kingston Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighborhoods
Brewarrina: An Australian Story
This short paper discusses Barry Morris's account of the 'riot' at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987 and its legal aftermath, which continued for some years. An iconic event in Australian race relations, much can be learnt from its various dimensions, a fact that Morris amply demonstrates. Notwithstanding, this discussion questions a related narrative in his book, which interprets capitalism's impact on self-determination simply in terms of ne…
On the subject of politics; response to Ghassan Hage
Afterword: Peterson’s Impartye—A short appreciation
By a curious stroke of fate, Nic Peterson's 'Totemism yesterday' (1972) had a particular resonance for me. My cohort at Chicago had been alerted to the glories of Lvi-Strauss by
The Politics of Difference and Equality: Remote Aboriginal Communities, Public Discourse, and Australian Anthropology
The growth of a network of remote communities in Australia's Northern Territory followed the success of an Aboriginal land rights movement in the 1970s. In the course of the past two decades, there have been increasing reports of distress in these communities interpreted differently by anthropologists and opinion writers in the national press, some of the latter of a neo-liberal bent. This article examines critically the position of anthropologis…
Translating Christianity: Some keywords, events and sites in Western Arrernte conversion
This article considers a range of Western Arrernte terms employed by missionaries at Hermannsburg to translate the Bible and the Lutheran liturgy and hymns. My argument is that initially words were employed as metaphors in order to convey a Christian transcendental and ritual order quite different from the Arrernte one the terms had named previously. I examine the events and the Western Arrernte response that, over time, redefined some terms and …
Caribbean journeys: An ethnography of migration and home in three family networks - By Olwig, Karen Fog
Making a Difference: The Politics of Writing about Suffering
Capitalism as culture, and economy 1
Contemporary cultural anthropology has been marked by its distance from the analysis of economy. I argue that anthropology as a discipline has suffered from this distance and suggest a form in which these interests can be reconciled for the purposes of ethnographic research. The discussion is divided into three sections. In the first, I trace the ‘disappearing’ of economy from cultural anthropology. In the second, I propose a schema for bringing …
Religion and Rationalism: A Hegelian Revival
Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia
The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries and labourers invaded their land. This is the first study to address Arrernte's contemporary situation and also documents the immense sociocultural changes. D. Austin-Broos, University of Sydney
A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology by Geoffrey Gray
‘Working for’ and ‘Working’ among Western Arrernte in Central Australia1
This article discusses some conflicts between kin- and market-based society as they are reflected in the lives of Western Arrernte in and around Ntaria (Hermannsburg). Both political economy and cultural analysis provide accounts of concomitant ‘problems about work’ and training initiatives in remote communities. Neither brings together, however, the issues of economic marginalisation and a history of cultural difference with its own transformati…
The Politics of Moral Order: A Brief Anatomy of Racing
Franz Fanon and Elva Cook point out that race is more than simply a cognitive system of classification. Race is also inscribed on bodies and realized in geographies of space (Williams 1989). David Harvey (2001) has developed the latter theme in his account of the ‘moral geographies’ that symbolize relations between nation-states. His discussion calls attention to the ways in which a state gives value to place across various types of terrain. Spat…
Anthropology and Indigenous Alterity
Book reviewed in this article: Elizabeth Povinelli. The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
Globalisation and the Genesis of Values
This talk was delivered as an Inaugural Lecture in Anthropology at the University of Sydney on the evening of August 22, 2001. It was sponsored by the Arts Association of the University of Sydney. In it I present an overview of my career, noting the consistencies between my work in philosophy and in anthropology, and between what may appear as two quite disparate field sites, urban Jamaica and central Australia. A method that involves a sociology…
The Meaning Of Pepe: God's Law and The Western Arrernte
Using both ethnography and textual material, this paper describes the way in which Western Arrernte people in central Australia interpreted the Christianity brought to them by Lutheran missionaries. The mission became an isolated domestic economy, a context that allowed the Arrernte to interpret its teachings in terms of a “law.” This Christian law was often referred to as pepe, the Western Arrernte word for “paper.” It involved a particular rend…
Places, practices, and things: The articulation of Arrernte kinship with welfare and work
In this article, I discuss problems of articulation that occur between kin-based and market-based societies. In particular, I address Western Arrernte (Aranda) people in central Australia and their struggles to articulate bilateral kinship networks with a welfare economy and state. I also consider the transitions involved as Arrernte people come to objectify kin relations more in terms of commodities and cash and less in detailed knowledge and ex…
Whose Ethics? Which Cultural Contract? Imagining Arrernte Traditions Today
The paper uses an account of ‘tradition’ by the philosopher, Alisdair MacIntyre, to argue for the view that local Aboriginal culture that has been through extensive change is nonetheless still specifying for the Aboriginal people involved. Therefore these local traditions must be taken into account in discussions about ‘contracts’ or ‘policies’ concerning Aboriginal people today. An example is drawn from the Lutheran tradition of Western Arrernte…
Churches And The State: Aspects Of Religious Ideology In Colonial And Post-Colonial Jamaica
En Jamaique, le pentecotisme remplace et reinterprete des aspects du discours de race et de classe. Loin d'etre un phenomene, ces formes de deplacement et de reinterpretation etaient presentes dans la pratique baptiste d'autrefois
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. Bonnie Glass-Coffin. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xv. 246 pp., map, notes, glossary, references, index, Illustrations
Falling Through the ‘Savage Slot’: Postcolonial Critique and the Ethnographic Task 1
This paper observes that recent theoretical developments in anthropology present a challenge to ethnography understood as a holistic study involved in the task of translation. By addressing the critiques of postcolonial thinkers, and some postmodern thinkers, the paper seeks to re‐formulate what the ethnographic task can and should involve at the end of the twentieth century. The discussion is premised on the view that a practice of ethnography i…
Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
Journal Article Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders, by Diane J. Austin-Broos. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 244 pp. $50.00, $19.95(pbk) Get access Paul S. Breidenbach Paul S. Breidenbach Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712126 Published: 0…
Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
In "Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders," Diane J. Austin-Broos offers a nuanced exploration of the interplay between religion, morality, and political power in postcolonial Jamaica. Focusing on the period from emancipation in 1838 to the mid-20th century, Austin-Broos examines how diverse religious traditions-including Revivalism, Myalism, and Christianity-shaped Jamaican social and political life. She argues that these re…
Places, practices, and things: The articulation of Arrernte kinship with welfare and work
In this article, I discuss problems of articulation that occur between kin-based and market-based societies. In particular, I address Western Arrernte (Aranda) people in central Australia and their struggles to articulate bilateral kinship networks with a welfare economy and state. I also consider the transitions involved as Arrernte people come to objectify kin relations more in terms of commodities and cash and less in detailed knowledge and ex…
Race/class: Jamaica's discourse of heritable identity
Argues that Jamaican notions of 'race' and 'class' can be rendered as a discourse of heritable biological and environmental identity. There has been a movement in the meaning of colour categories from an emphasis on biology, to a greater emphasis on environment. This transition has been encouraged by the emergence of class as a 20th-c. idiom
The Meaning Of Pepe: God's Law and The Western Arrernte
Using both ethnography and textual material, this paper describes the way in which Western Arrernte people in central Australia interpreted the Christianity brought to them by Lutheran missionaries. The mission became an isolated domestic economy, a context that allowed the Arrernte to interpret its teachings in terms of a “law.” This Christian law was often referred to as pepe, the Western Arrernte word for “paper.” It involved a particular rend…
Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia
The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries and labourers invaded their land. This is the first study to address Arrernte's contemporary situation and also documents the immense sociocultural changes. D. Austin-Broos, University of Sydney
Narratives of the Encounter at Ntaria
Religion and the politics of moral order in Jamaica
Jamaican Pentecostalism: Its growth and significance
The article discusses the significance of Jamaican Pentecostalism, one of a number of new religions that entered or developed in Jamaica between 1890 and 1930. It locates this missionary religion from the United States in the context of local and regional socio-economic changes, which brought both external and internal migrations to Jamaica. In turn, these changes transformed rural and urban life in ways that facilitated new directions in religio…
Making a Difference: The Politics of Writing about Suffering
Churches And The State: Aspects Of Religious Ideology In Colonial And Post-Colonial Jamaica
En Jamaique, le pentecotisme remplace et reinterprete des aspects du discours de race et de classe. Loin d'etre un phenomene, ces formes de deplacement et de reinterpretation etaient presentes dans la pratique baptiste d'autrefois
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. Bonnie Glass-Coffin. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xv. 246 pp., map, notes, glossary, references, index, Illustrations
Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
Journal Article Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders, by Diane J. Austin-Broos. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 244 pp. $50.00, $19.95(pbk) Get access Paul S. Breidenbach Paul S. Breidenbach Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712126 Published: 0…
Politics and the redeemer: State and religion as ways of being in Jamaica
Study of the role of Jamaica's popular churches, particularly Baptist and Pentecostal, in their relations with the state and with a wider transnational world. Focuses on the relation between the experience of religion and the experience of race and class. Concludes that Jamaican Pentecostals experience inequality differently both from those who are non-religious and from Rastafarian groups
Stuart Hall and Jamaica
Though Stuart Hall left Jamaica as a young man in 1951, reflections on his birthplace and its people’s diaspora significantly shaped the method that would become a cultural studies. This essay examines the nature of this influence as evidenced in some of Hall’s early and much later writing
Cultural Theory. Michael Thompson, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky
Religion and the politics of moral order in Jamaica
Narratives of the Encounter at Ntaria
Race/class: Jamaica's discourse of heritable identity
Argues that Jamaican notions of 'race' and 'class' can be rendered as a discourse of heritable biological and environmental identity. There has been a movement in the meaning of colour categories from an emphasis on biology, to a greater emphasis on environment. This transition has been encouraged by the emergence of class as a 20th-c. idiom
Two Laws‘, Ontologies, Histories: Ways of Being Aranda Today
At Hermannsburg, in central Australia, Western Aranda people frequently propose that they live by ‘two laws’, Aranda law and God's law. This is a common phenomenon remarked throughout northern Australia and analysed by a number of anthropologists in the past. This discussion throws new light on the issue by interpreting `two‐laws' talk in terms of a culture of encompassment that marks the emergence of historical or ‘ethnic’ identities as Aborigin…
Politics and the redeemer: State and religion as ways of being in Jamaica
Study of the role of Jamaica's popular churches, particularly Baptist and Pentecostal, in their relations with the state and with a wider transnational world. Focuses on the relation between the experience of religion and the experience of race and class. Concludes that Jamaican Pentecostals experience inequality differently both from those who are non-religious and from Rastafarian groups
Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
In "Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders," Diane J. Austin-Broos offers a nuanced exploration of the interplay between religion, morality, and political power in postcolonial Jamaica. Focusing on the period from emancipation in 1838 to the mid-20th century, Austin-Broos examines how diverse religious traditions-including Revivalism, Myalism, and Christianity-shaped Jamaican social and political life. She argues that these re…
Falling Through the ‘Savage Slot’: Postcolonial Critique and the Ethnographic Task 1
This paper observes that recent theoretical developments in anthropology present a challenge to ethnography understood as a holistic study involved in the task of translation. By addressing the critiques of postcolonial thinkers, and some postmodern thinkers, the paper seeks to re‐formulate what the ethnographic task can and should involve at the end of the twentieth century. The discussion is premised on the view that a practice of ethnography i…
Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders
Journal Article Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders, by Diane J. Austin-Broos. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997, 244 pp. $50.00, $19.95(pbk) Get access Paul S. Breidenbach Paul S. Breidenbach Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 59, Issue 4, Winter 1998, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712126 Published: 0…
Ethnography, America, and the politics of facts
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru
The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality and Healing in Northern Peru. Bonnie Glass-Coffin. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xv. 246 pp., map, notes, glossary, references, index, Illustrations
Whose Ethics? Which Cultural Contract? Imagining Arrernte Traditions Today
The paper uses an account of ‘tradition’ by the philosopher, Alisdair MacIntyre, to argue for the view that local Aboriginal culture that has been through extensive change is nonetheless still specifying for the Aboriginal people involved. Therefore these local traditions must be taken into account in discussions about ‘contracts’ or ‘policies’ concerning Aboriginal people today. An example is drawn from the Lutheran tradition of Western Arrernte…
Churches And The State: Aspects Of Religious Ideology In Colonial And Post-Colonial Jamaica
En Jamaique, le pentecotisme remplace et reinterprete des aspects du discours de race et de classe. Loin d'etre un phenomene, ces formes de deplacement et de reinterpretation etaient presentes dans la pratique baptiste d'autrefois
Globalisation and the Genesis of Values
This talk was delivered as an Inaugural Lecture in Anthropology at the University of Sydney on the evening of August 22, 2001. It was sponsored by the Arts Association of the University of Sydney. In it I present an overview of my career, noting the consistencies between my work in philosophy and in anthropology, and between what may appear as two quite disparate field sites, urban Jamaica and central Australia. A method that involves a sociology…
The Meaning Of Pepe: God's Law and The Western Arrernte
Using both ethnography and textual material, this paper describes the way in which Western Arrernte people in central Australia interpreted the Christianity brought to them by Lutheran missionaries. The mission became an isolated domestic economy, a context that allowed the Arrernte to interpret its teachings in terms of a “law.” This Christian law was often referred to as pepe, the Western Arrernte word for “paper.” It involved a particular rend…
Places, practices, and things: The articulation of Arrernte kinship with welfare and work
In this article, I discuss problems of articulation that occur between kin-based and market-based societies. In particular, I address Western Arrernte (Aranda) people in central Australia and their struggles to articulate bilateral kinship networks with a welfare economy and state. I also consider the transitions involved as Arrernte people come to objectify kin relations more in terms of commodities and cash and less in detailed knowledge and ex…
Anthropology and Indigenous Alterity
Book reviewed in this article: Elizabeth Povinelli. The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
The Politics of Moral Order: A Brief Anatomy of Racing
Franz Fanon and Elva Cook point out that race is more than simply a cognitive system of classification. Race is also inscribed on bodies and realized in geographies of space (Williams 1989). David Harvey (2001) has developed the latter theme in his account of the ‘moral geographies’ that symbolize relations between nation-states. His discussion calls attention to the ways in which a state gives value to place across various types of terrain. Spat…
‘Working for’ and ‘Working’ among Western Arrernte in Central Australia1
This article discusses some conflicts between kin- and market-based society as they are reflected in the lives of Western Arrernte in and around Ntaria (Hermannsburg). Both political economy and cultural analysis provide accounts of concomitant ‘problems about work’ and training initiatives in remote communities. Neither brings together, however, the issues of economic marginalisation and a history of cultural difference with its own transformati…
Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia
The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries and labourers invaded their land. This is the first study to address Arrernte's contemporary situation and also documents the immense sociocultural changes. D. Austin-Broos, University of Sydney
A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology by Geoffrey Gray
Capitalism as culture, and economy 1
Contemporary cultural anthropology has been marked by its distance from the analysis of economy. I argue that anthropology as a discipline has suffered from this distance and suggest a form in which these interests can be reconciled for the purposes of ethnographic research. The discussion is divided into three sections. In the first, I trace the ‘disappearing’ of economy from cultural anthropology. In the second, I propose a schema for bringing …
Religion and Rationalism: A Hegelian Revival
Translating Christianity: Some keywords, events and sites in Western Arrernte conversion
This article considers a range of Western Arrernte terms employed by missionaries at Hermannsburg to translate the Bible and the Lutheran liturgy and hymns. My argument is that initially words were employed as metaphors in order to convey a Christian transcendental and ritual order quite different from the Arrernte one the terms had named previously. I examine the events and the Western Arrernte response that, over time, redefined some terms and …
Caribbean journeys: An ethnography of migration and home in three family networks - By Olwig, Karen Fog
Sociology (25 works) · History (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works)