Victoria K Burbank
Biographic Data
| ID | 86247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria K Burbank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria K |
| FAMILY NAME | Burbank |
| SIGNATURE | BURBANK V K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indigenous Australian Youth Futures: Living the Social Determinants of Health
Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed. In Australia, such understanding is urgently needed with respect to Aboriginal adolescents. Not only must they adjust to their
Is it agency? An integrative interpretation of female adolescents’ sexual behaviour in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities
In this paper we attempt to understand at least some of the complex and interacting forces – cultural, biological, developmental and historical – that influence adolescents’ sexual behaviour in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities. We use the concept of ‘agency’ only as a foil for our interpretation. Drawing upon ethnographic material, we focus on: ‘walkin’ around at night’, avoidance of arranged marriages and the exchange of sexual fav…
The embodiment of sorcery: Supernatural aggression, belief and envy in a remote Aboriginal community
Anthropologists have long attempted to come to grips with Indigenous Australian sorcery beliefs and especially with the idea that acts with no understandable efficacy bring about illness and death. In this ethnographic interpretation of sorcery beliefs in the remote community of Numbulwar, I follow those few who have attempted to find a link between these apparently harmless acts and real physiological consequences, arguing that the fear of sorce…
Precocious Pregnancy, Sexual Conflict, and Early Childbearing in Remote Aboriginal Australia
Ideas from evolutionary theory and a consideration of social and cultural factors are used to argue that teenage pregnancy in three remote Aboriginal communities represents a strategic response to current environments characterised by pervasive and sustained risk and uncertainty. Ethnographic studies of the communities find that these environments both provoke and enable the reproductive strategies of adolescent boys and girls but raise the quest…
Young clean and safe?’ Young people's perceptions of risk from sexually transmitted infections in regional, rural and remote Australia
This paper examines young people's perceived vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their efforts to create a sense of personal safety within an environment in which risks may be high and where STIs are highly stigmatised. The paper reports on findings from research involving both Indigenous and non-Indigenous 16- to 25-year-olds from remote, rural and regional Australia, including communities in the Northern Territory, Weste…
Envy and egalitarianism in Aboriginal Australia: An integrative approach
The word ‘envy’ directs attention to feelings and cognitions that are especially important sources of information in our complicated sociality. As it is delimited by philosophers, economists, psychologists and others, envy is conceptually nested within a family that includes evil eye beliefs, inequity aversion, strong reciprocity and social comparison. Although the accumulation of work in these areas is substantial, anthropological treatments of …
Life History and Real Life: An Example of Neuroanthropology in Aboriginal Australia
A recent conceptual reworking of the developmental origins of health and disease model that places it within a life history framework is used to interpret some of the history of people living today in the remote Arnhem Land community of Numbulwar. This approach suggests some of the means by which their past circumstances may have had an impact on their current health. A combination of history, ethnography, and the neurobiology of stress and pregn…
From Bedtime to On Time: Why Many Aboriginal People Don't Especially Like Participating in Western Institutions1
"Victoria Burbank - Response to the Review of Her Book "Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia
Victoria Burbank, Victoria Burbank - Response to the Review of Her Book "Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia", The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 1997), p. 156
Small Town, Big Hell: An Ethnographic Study of Aggression in a Margariteño Community
Small Town, Big Hell: An Ethnographic Study of Aggression in a Margariteño Community
Gender Hierarchy and Adolescent Sexuality: The Control of Female Reproduction in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Women can bear children; men cannot. The author explores why women fail to realize more power from their ability to procreate. An instance is considered in which the practice and resistance of female Australian Aboriginal adolescents created circumstances in which their sexuality and reproduction were largely uncontrolled. The products of women's reproductive ability, children, are socially appropriated, but not women's reproductive abilities. Th…
Cross-cultural perspectives on aggression in women and girls: An introduction
Women's intra-gender relationships and ?disciplinary aggression? in an Australian Aboriginal community
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggression . Kaj Bjorkqvist and Pirkko Niemela , eds
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry. Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III
Some Contributions of Anthropology to Professional Education
T hese books, which have been stacking up on my desk the last two years, supposedly represent the latest in the subdiscipline of anthropology and education. What excited me were the sections of these books that sought to develop an ethnology or theoretical perspective of education as distinct from an ethnography of education and the attempts to implement the ethnography of education. The books are both methodological (descriptive and scientific) …
Sex, gender, and difference: Dimensions of aggression in an australian aboriginal community
Female Aggression in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This paper presents findings from a preliminary cross-cultural survey of adult human female aggression. Cases of female-initiated aggres sion, ranging from verbal abuse to murder, are found in all regions of the world. Female aggression is largely directed against other females and generally involves little injury. Co-wives and other rivals in sex and marriage are the most common victims. Husbands are the most common male targets. Female aggressi…
Premarital Sex Norms: Cultural Interpretations in an Australian Aboriginal Community
The Mirriri as Ritualized Aggression
From Bedtime to On Time: Why Many Aboriginal People Don't Especially Like Participating in Western Institutions1
Female Aggression in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This paper presents findings from a preliminary cross-cultural survey of adult human female aggression. Cases of female-initiated aggres sion, ranging from verbal abuse to murder, are found in all regions of the world. Female aggression is largely directed against other females and generally involves little injury. Co-wives and other rivals in sex and marriage are the most common victims. Husbands are the most common male targets. Female aggressi…
Premarital Sex Norms: Cultural Interpretations in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Gender Hierarchy and Adolescent Sexuality: The Control of Female Reproduction in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Women can bear children; men cannot. The author explores why women fail to realize more power from their ability to procreate. An instance is considered in which the practice and resistance of female Australian Aboriginal adolescents created circumstances in which their sexuality and reproduction were largely uncontrolled. The products of women's reproductive ability, children, are socially appropriated, but not women's reproductive abilities. Th…
Cross-cultural perspectives on aggression in women and girls: An introduction
Sex, gender, and difference: Dimensions of aggression in an australian aboriginal community
Precocious Pregnancy, Sexual Conflict, and Early Childbearing in Remote Aboriginal Australia
Ideas from evolutionary theory and a consideration of social and cultural factors are used to argue that teenage pregnancy in three remote Aboriginal communities represents a strategic response to current environments characterised by pervasive and sustained risk and uncertainty. Ethnographic studies of the communities find that these environments both provoke and enable the reproductive strategies of adolescent boys and girls but raise the quest…
Life History and Real Life: An Example of Neuroanthropology in Aboriginal Australia
A recent conceptual reworking of the developmental origins of health and disease model that places it within a life history framework is used to interpret some of the history of people living today in the remote Arnhem Land community of Numbulwar. This approach suggests some of the means by which their past circumstances may have had an impact on their current health. A combination of history, ethnography, and the neurobiology of stress and pregn…
The Mirriri as Ritualized Aggression
Female Aggression in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This paper presents findings from a preliminary cross-cultural survey of adult human female aggression. Cases of female-initiated aggres sion, ranging from verbal abuse to murder, are found in all regions of the world. Female aggression is largely directed against other females and generally involves little injury. Co-wives and other rivals in sex and marriage are the most common victims. Husbands are the most common male targets. Female aggressi…
Premarital Sex Norms: Cultural Interpretations in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Some Contributions of Anthropology to Professional Education
T hese books, which have been stacking up on my desk the last two years, supposedly represent the latest in the subdiscipline of anthropology and education. What excited me were the sections of these books that sought to develop an ethnology or theoretical perspective of education as distinct from an ethnography of education and the attempts to implement the ethnography of education. The books are both methodological (descriptive and scientific) …
Sex, gender, and difference: Dimensions of aggression in an australian aboriginal community
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggression . Kaj Bjorkqvist and Pirkko Niemela , eds
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry. Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III
Cross-cultural perspectives on aggression in women and girls: An introduction
Women's intra-gender relationships and ?disciplinary aggression? in an Australian Aboriginal community
Gender Hierarchy and Adolescent Sexuality: The Control of Female Reproduction in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Women can bear children; men cannot. The author explores why women fail to realize more power from their ability to procreate. An instance is considered in which the practice and resistance of female Australian Aboriginal adolescents created circumstances in which their sexuality and reproduction were largely uncontrolled. The products of women's reproductive ability, children, are socially appropriated, but not women's reproductive abilities. Th…
Small Town, Big Hell: An Ethnographic Study of Aggression in a Margariteño Community
Small Town, Big Hell: An Ethnographic Study of Aggression in a Margariteño Community
"Victoria Burbank - Response to the Review of Her Book "Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia
Victoria Burbank, Victoria Burbank - Response to the Review of Her Book "Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia", The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 1997), p. 156
From Bedtime to On Time: Why Many Aboriginal People Don't Especially Like Participating in Western Institutions1
Life History and Real Life: An Example of Neuroanthropology in Aboriginal Australia
A recent conceptual reworking of the developmental origins of health and disease model that places it within a life history framework is used to interpret some of the history of people living today in the remote Arnhem Land community of Numbulwar. This approach suggests some of the means by which their past circumstances may have had an impact on their current health. A combination of history, ethnography, and the neurobiology of stress and pregn…
Young clean and safe?’ Young people's perceptions of risk from sexually transmitted infections in regional, rural and remote Australia
This paper examines young people's perceived vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their efforts to create a sense of personal safety within an environment in which risks may be high and where STIs are highly stigmatised. The paper reports on findings from research involving both Indigenous and non-Indigenous 16- to 25-year-olds from remote, rural and regional Australia, including communities in the Northern Territory, Weste…
Envy and egalitarianism in Aboriginal Australia: An integrative approach
The word ‘envy’ directs attention to feelings and cognitions that are especially important sources of information in our complicated sociality. As it is delimited by philosophers, economists, psychologists and others, envy is conceptually nested within a family that includes evil eye beliefs, inequity aversion, strong reciprocity and social comparison. Although the accumulation of work in these areas is substantial, anthropological treatments of …
Precocious Pregnancy, Sexual Conflict, and Early Childbearing in Remote Aboriginal Australia
Ideas from evolutionary theory and a consideration of social and cultural factors are used to argue that teenage pregnancy in three remote Aboriginal communities represents a strategic response to current environments characterised by pervasive and sustained risk and uncertainty. Ethnographic studies of the communities find that these environments both provoke and enable the reproductive strategies of adolescent boys and girls but raise the quest…
The embodiment of sorcery: Supernatural aggression, belief and envy in a remote Aboriginal community
Anthropologists have long attempted to come to grips with Indigenous Australian sorcery beliefs and especially with the idea that acts with no understandable efficacy bring about illness and death. In this ethnographic interpretation of sorcery beliefs in the remote community of Numbulwar, I follow those few who have attempted to find a link between these apparently harmless acts and real physiological consequences, arguing that the fear of sorce…
Is it agency? An integrative interpretation of female adolescents’ sexual behaviour in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities
In this paper we attempt to understand at least some of the complex and interacting forces – cultural, biological, developmental and historical – that influence adolescents’ sexual behaviour in three remote Australian Aboriginal communities. We use the concept of ‘agency’ only as a foil for our interpretation. Drawing upon ethnographic material, we focus on: ‘walkin’ around at night’, avoidance of arranged marriages and the exchange of sexual fav…
Indigenous Australian Youth Futures: Living the Social Determinants of Health
Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed. In Australia, such understanding is urgently needed with respect to Aboriginal adolescents. Not only must they adjust to their
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Aggression (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (6 works) · Political science (6 works)