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Cultural Studies Review

slight anthropologies

Vol. 13, No. 2

John Frow and Katrina Schlunke (eds)

Formerly the UTS Review, the Cultural Studies Review is Australia's leading journal in cultural studies.

About this Title

‘Slight Anthropologies’ has been plucked from Gabrielle Fletcher’s challenging and absorbing example of new writing to become the connective tag for this issue. In many surprising ways the essays in this collection evoke an idea of the human as a fragile category. ‘Slight’ anthropology is here then a study of a particular kind of ‘mankind’ where both the practice and the object are in different ways porous events. As this title touches upon the diverse essays and reviews collected within, the initially deprecating mode (slight) can be seen to operate as a kind of contagion, where one vulnerable project spreads through another and another.

Table of Contents

Editorial—JOHN FROW & KATRINA SCHLUNKE

Essays

Slight Anthropologies—GABRIELLE LORRAINE FLETCHER

Taking Them Back: Archival Media in Arnhem Land Today—MARTIN THOMAS

UnAustralia: Strangeness and Value—JOHN FROW

The Kingsbury Tales—OUYANG YU

Writing, with, T/error. And Calling on the Body of an Artist—LISA MCDONALD

John Howard’s Body—PAUL MAGEE

Poetry as Means of Dialogue in Court Spaces—JOHN KINSELLA

Culture & Pedagogy: On the Popular Art of Reviewing Popular Art—ROBERT BRIGGS

Relationscapes: How Contemporary Aboriginal Art Moves Beyond
the Map—ERIN MANNING

Knowing the Country—EVE VINCENT

Postshamanism (1999)—JUAN OBARRIO

The Belsunce Case: Judgment, Uptake, Genre—ANDREW MUNRO

Trace Evidence: The Uncertainty of the Real—BELINDA MORRISSEY AND KRISTEN DAVIS

Reviews

MARION MADDOX on Aboriginal Religions in Australia

ANNA GIBBS on Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feeling

ALISON BARTLETT on Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture

SUSIE O’BRIEN on Slow Living

MARGARET MAYHEW on Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

KATE DOUGLAS on Borderwork in Multicultural Australia

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