Ton Otto

Ton Otto is professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and professor and research leader at James Cook University, Australia. Currently he is also the head of the Ethnographic Department at Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus. Based on long-term ethnographic field research in Papua New Guinea he has published widely on issues of social and cultural change. His interests comprise the epistemology and methodology of ethnographic research, including visual and museum anthropology, and its relationship to innovation, intervention and design. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Design anthropology: Theory and practice (Bloomsbury 2013), Value as Theory (Special issue HAU 3 (1 and2), 2013) and Design Anthropological Futures (Bloomsbury 2016). 

 List of publications  and scholarly productions                               

 Monographs and edited volumes, peer reviewed

 xx. 2016      Ton Otto and Stefffen Dalsgaard (eds). Alternative Valuations. Valuation Studies 4 (1), 91 pp.

xix. 2016     Smith, Rachel Charlotte, Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Mette Gislev Kjærgaard, Ton Otto, Joachim Halse & Thomas Binder. Design Anthropological Futures. London: Bloomsbury, 304 pp.

xviii. 2014    Hoiris, Ole, Ton Otto & Ane Bonde Rolsted (eds). De Dødes Liv. Aarhus University Press and Moesgaard Museum, 160 pp.

xvii. 2014     Dalsgaard, Steffen and Ton Otto (eds), Value, transvaluation and globalization. Special Issue Etropic, vol 13: 1-83.

xvi. 2013     Otto, Ton and Rane Willerslev (eds). ‘Value as theory’. Part II. Special Issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(2), pp 1-243. ISSN 2049-1115.

xv. 2013      Otto, Ton and Rane Willerslev (eds). ‘Value as theory’. Part I of II. Special Issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(1), pp 1-171. ISSN 2049-1115.

xiv. 2013     Gunn, Wendy, Ton Otto & Smith, Rachel Charlotte (eds). Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice, London-New Delhi-New York-Sydney: Bloomsbury, 284 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8578-5368-4 (HB); 9978-0-8578-5369-1 (PB)

xiii. 2013      Otto, Ton, Rosita Henry & Barbara Glowczewski (eds). ‘Productive Relations and Relational Products: Field Research and Reciprocity’, Special Issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Volume 14, Issue 2. Pp. 113-205. ISNN: 1444-2213 (print)/1740-9314 (online).

xii. 2010      Otto, Ton & Bubandt, Nils (eds) Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 326 pp.

xi. 2006       Otto, Ton, Thrane, Henrik & Vandkilde, Helle (eds) Warfare and society:  Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives, Aarhus:  Aarhus University Press, 557 pp.

x. 2005        Otto, Ton & Pedersen, Poul. 2005. Tradition and agency: Tracing cultural continuity and invention, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 355 pp.

ix. 2000       Driesen, Henk & Otto, Ton (eds) Perplexities of identification: Anthropological studies in cultural differentiation and the use of resources, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 265 pp.

viii. 2000      Otto, Ton & Pedersen, Poul (eds) 2000. Anthropology and the revival of tradition: Between cultural continuity and invention. Special issue of FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society, Vol. 42. 199 pp.

vii. 1997      Otto, Ton & Thomas, Nicholas. 1997. Narratives of nation in the South Pacific, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 256 pp.

vi. 1997       Otto, Ton & Borsboom, Ad. 1997. Cultural dynamics of religious change in Oceania, Leiden: KITLV Press, 144 pp

v. 1997        Otto, Ton, Roesdahl, Else & Thrane, Henrik. Tre tiltrædelsesforelæsninger på Moesgaard (’Three inaugural lectures at Moesgaard). Aarhus: Aarhus University, Humanities, 96 pp.

iv. 1993       Otto, Ton (ed.) Pacific Islands Trajectories. Five personal views, Canberra: The Australian National University, 177 pp.

iii. 1992       Otto, Ton (ed.) Imagining Cargo Cults, Special issue of Canberra Anthropology 15(2), 130 pp.

ii. 1991        Otto, Ton. The politics of tradition in Baluan: Social change and the construction of the past in a Manus society, The Centre for Pacific Studies, Univ. of Nijmegen, 320 pp.

i. 1990         Otto, Ton, Turner, James & Filer, Colin. The sociology of baitfish royalties in Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea, 61 pp.

Exhibitions

 2016           Paralellelle virkeligheder: Nepalisesiske kunstnere mellem tradition og globalisering/ Parallel realities: Nepalese artists between tradition and globalisation. Co-curator with Ditte Seeberg and Sangeeta Thapa. Moesgaard Museum.

2014           De Dødes Liv. Chief responsible for research, design and building up of the new ethnographic exhibition at the New Moesgaard Museum on the theme of ‘the Life of the Dead’.

2004           ‘Yumi bildim kano’. Initiator and coordinator of an exhibition about the building of canoes in Manus, Papua New Guinea (including issues of craftsmanship, identity, intellectual property, exchange and transport). The exhibition included the building of a large seagoing sailing canoe from original materials by five Manus craftsmen, as well as the activities of a Manus painter Joe Nalo celebrating ‘traditional’ village life. The exhibition generated a lively interest in the press and local television and the canoe was launched in the Bay of Aarhus and sailed all the way to Copenhagen. Moesgård Museum, May –August.

Audiovisual productions

 2011                 Unity Through Culture (59 minutes), film directed and produced by Christian Suhr and Ton Otto, Boston: Documentary Educational Resources and London: Royal Anthropological Institute.

Screened at 11 international ethnographic film festivals and conferences. Awarded with ‘The Intangible Culture Film Prize’ and ‘The Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography’ at the Royal Anthropological Institute Festival for Ethnographic Film (London, June 2011). Broadcasted twice on TITV, Taiwan.

2009           Ngat is dead – Studying Mortuary Traditions. Baluan Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea (58 minutes), directed and produced by Christian Suhr Nielsen and Ton Otto; Co-direction: Steffen Dalsgaard. Boston: Documentary Educational Resources. and London: Royal Anthropological Institute. 
Screened at more than 20 international ethnographic film festivals and conferences. Awarded with ”Prix du patrimoine culturel immatériel” at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival. Broadcasted a number of times on National Television in Papua New Guinea (EMTV).

1996           'RK begrafenis in Brunssum: een oefening in etnografisch observatie', red. T.Otto and F. Wester, Nijmegen: Catholic University.

1995           ‘Rouw en begrafenisrituelen in Brunssum: een etnografisch interview met Mevrouw L. Boh-Hermans’ (two tapes for instruction in ethnographic interviewing), red. T.Otto and F.Wester, Nijmegen: Catholic University

1995           ‘Uitvaartcentrum Brunssum: een etnografisch interview met de heer J.M.Peters’ (two tapes for courses in ethnographic interviewing), red. T.Otto and F.Wester, Nijmegen: Catholic University.

1988           ‘Paliau Maloat: The last prophet of the world’ (Lorengau, Manus, Papua New Guinea, 28 February 1988), Instructional Resources Unit, The Australian National University (VHS videofilm for purposes of research and instruction).

1988           ‘Balopa cultural show: Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea, 28 & 29 December 1987’, Instructional Resources Unit, The Australian National University (VHS videofilm for purposes of research and instruction).

Book chapters and articles, peer reviewed

 n.d.             Otto, Ton, My culture – I perform it, I can change it: Film, Audience and Culture Critique, Visual Anthropology

n.d.             Schokkin, Dineke and Ton Otto, Relatives and relations in Paluai. Oceanic Linguistics (accepted)

 n.d.             Otto, Ton. ’Cargo cults’, in: Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley-Blackwell (in press)

 n.d.             Otto, Ton and Dianna Hardy. ‘Transforming artefacts into digital heritage: Developing interactive databases for use by Aboriginal communities’, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Culture in press)

 79. 2016      Otto, Ton and Steffen Dalsgaard. Guest Editorial: Alternative Valuations. Valuation Studies  4(1): 1-9.

78. 2016      Otto, Ton. ‘Tradition’, in: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, George Ritzer (ed). Wiley Blackwell.

77. 2016      Kjærsgaard, Mette G., J. Halse, R. C. Smith, K. T. Vangkilde, T. Binder and Ton Otto.  Introduction: Design Anthropological Futures, in: Smith, Rachel Charlotte, Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Mette Gislev Kjærgaard, Ton Otto, Joachim Halse & Thomas Binder (eds). Design Anthropological Futures. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 1-16.

76. 2016      Smith, Rachel Charlotte and  Ton Otto. ‘Cultures of the Future: Emergence and Intervention in Design Anthropology’ in: Smith, Rachel Charlotte, Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Mette Gislev Kjærgaard, Ton Otto, Joachim Halse & Thomas Binder (eds). Design Anthropological Futures. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 19-36.

 75. 2016       Otto, Ton. ‘History In and For Design’, Journal of Design History, 29 (1): 58-70.

74. 2015      Otto, Ton. ‘Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork’, in S. Dalsgaard and M. Nielsen (eds), Time and the Field, Berghahn Books pp. 64-79.

73. 2015.     Otto, Ton. ‘Towards a Theory of Tradition and Agency’. In: L. Picht, K. Schmidt, G. Schmitz & L. Wiggering (eds). The limits of change, Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, pp. 31-54.

 72. 2015      Fibiger, Thomas and Ton Otto. ‘Det gælder liv og død! Ny etnografi på Moesgaard Museum’, in: U. Johansson Dahre & T. Fibiger (eds). Etnografi på museum. Visioner og udfordringer for etnografiske museer i Norden, Aarhus University Press, pp.153-172.

 71. 2015      Otto, Ton. ‘Transformations of cultural heritage in Melanesia: from kastam to kalsa’. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (2): 117-132.

70. 2014      Dalsgaard, Steffen & Ton Otto. ‘Editorial: Value, transvaluation and globalization, in: Dalsgaard, Steffen and Ton Otto (eds), Value, transvaluation and globalization. Special Issue Etropic, vol 13: 1-6.

69. 2014      Krull, Hans & Ton Otto. ‘Englen med kun een vinge. De afdødes liv i kunsten’, in: Hoiris, Ole, Ton Otto & Ane Bonde Rolsted (eds), De Dødes Liv. Aarhus University Press and Moesgaard Museum, pp. 137-143.

68. 2014      Otto, Ton. ‘Samvær og samtale med forfædrene på Manus’, in: Hoiris, Ole, Ton Otto & Ane Bonde Rolsted (eds), De Dødes Liv. Aarhus University Press and Moesgaard Museum, pp. 79-85.

67. 2014       Hoiris, Ole, Ton Otto and Ane Bonde Rolsted, ‘De levende dør - men de døde lever videre’, in: Hoiris, Ole, Ton Otto & Ane Bonde Rolsted (eds), De Dødes Liv. Aarhus University Press and Moesgaard Museum, pp. 9-15.

66. 2013      Otto, Ton. ‘Back to the village: Return migrants and the changing discourse of tradition in Manus, Papua New Guinea’. Anthropological Forum 23(4): 428-440.

65. 2013      Henry, Rosita, Ton Otto, and Michael Wood. ‘Ethnographic artifacts and value transformations’, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(2): 33-51.

64. 2013      Otto, Ton and Rane Willerslev. ‘Prologue. “Value as theory”: Value, action, and critique.’ HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(2): 1-10.

63. 2013      Otto, Ton and Rane Willerslev. ‘Introduction. “Value as theory”: Comparison, cultural critique, and guerrilla ethnographic theory’, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 3(1): 1-20.

62. 2013      Otto, Ton and Rachel Charlotte Smith. ‘Design anthropology: A distinct style of knowing’, in Gunn, Wendy, Otto, Ton, & Smith, Rachel Charlotte (eds) Design Anthropology: Theory and Practice, pp. 1-29. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN: 978-0-8578-5368-4 (HB); 9978-0-8578-5369-1 (PB)

61. 2013      Glowczewzski, Barbara, Rosita Henry and Ton Otto. ‘Relations and products: Dilemmas of reciprocity in fieldwork’, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14 (2): 113-125. DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2013.768697.

60. 2013      Otto, Ton. ‘Ethnographic film as exchange’, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14 (2): 195-205. DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2013.768698. 

59. 2013      ‘Times of the Other: The Temporalities of Ethnographic Fieldwork’, Social Analysis 57(1): 64-79. DOI: 10.3167/sa.2013.570105.

58. 2012.      Kjaersgaard, M. and Otto, T. ‘Anthropological fieldwork and designing potentials’. In W. Gunn and J. Donovan (eds), Design and Anthropology, pp 177-191. Surrey: Ashgate.

57. 2011      ‘From kastam to kalsa? Leadership, cultural heritage and modernization in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea’, co-author Steffen Dalsgaard, in E. Hviding and K. Rio (eds), Made in Oceania. Social Movements, Cultural Heritage and the State in the Pacific, pp.141-160. Wantage: Sean Kingston Publishing.

56. 2011      ‘Comment on Nigel Rapport: The liberal treatment of difference: An untimely meditation on culture and civilization’ Current Anthropology 52 (5): 703-704. 

55. 2011      ‘Inventing Traditions and Remembering the Past in Manus,’ in E. Hermann (ed.), Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 157-73.

54. 2010      ‘What happened to Cargo Cults? Material religions in Melanesia and the West’, in B. Kapferer, K. Telle and A Eriksen (eds) Contemporary Religiosities: Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation State, New York: Berghahn Books, pp 82-102.

53. 2010.     ‘Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism’, Chapter 1 in Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, co-author Nils Bubandt, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1-15.

52. 2010      ‘Beyond the Whole in Ethnographic Practice? Introduction to Part I’, Chapter 2 in Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, co-author Nils Bubandt, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp 19-27.

51. 2010      ‘Beyond Cultural Wholes? Introduction to Part II’, Chapter 6 in Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, co-author Nils Bubandt Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 89-101.

50. 2010      ‘Beyond Structural Wholes? Introduction to Part III’, Chapter 10 in Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, co-author Nils Bubandt, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 177-186.

49. 2010      ‘Beyond Social Wholes? Introduction to Part IV’, Chapter 14 in Experiments in Holism. Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology, co-author Nils Bubandt, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 251-261.

48. 2009      ‘Exchange and inequality, time and personhood. Comments on “A Papuan Plutocracy”. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 34 (4): 91-98.

47. 2009      ‘What happened to Cargo Cults? Material Religions in Melanesia and the West’, Social Analysis 53 (1): 82-102.

46. 2009      ‘Guerra e scambi in una società melanesiana prima della pacificazione coloniale. Il caso di Manus, Papua Nuova Guinea’, in E. Gnecchi Ruscone and A. Paini (eds) Antropologia dell'Oceania, 155-181, Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore.

45. 2008      ‘Fieldwork in Manus, Papua New Guinea: On Change, Exchange and Anthropological Knowledge’, in J. Kommers and J. Venbrux (eds), Cultural Styles of Knowledge Transmission: Essays in Honour of Ad Borsboom, 102-107, Amsterdam: Aksant.

44. 2007      ‘Rethinking Tradition: Invention, Cultural Continuity and Agency’, in Jürg Wassmann and Katharina Stockhaus (eds.), Experiencing New Worlds, 36-57, New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.

43. 2007      ‘Marshall Sahlins: Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities:  Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom. 1981. Islands of History. 1985.’ In Ole Høiris (ed.), Antropologiske mesterværker, 289-301, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

42. 2006     ‘Warfare, discourse, and identity: an introduction’, in: T. Otto, H. Thrane and H. Vandkilde (eds), Warfare and society:  Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives, 385-391, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

41. 2006     ‘Conceptions of warfare in Western thought and research: an introduction’ in: T. Otto, H. Thrane and H. Vandkilde (eds), Warfare and society:  Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives, 23-28, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

40. 2006     ‘Warfare and exchange in a Melanesian society before colonial pacification: The case of Manus, Papua New Guinea’, in: T. Otto, H. Thrane and H. Vandkilde (eds), Warfare and society:  Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives, 187-199, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

39. 2006      ‘Warfare and society: Archaeological and social anthropological perspectives’, co-authored with Henrik Thrane and Helle Vandkilde, in: T. Otto, H. Thrane and H. Vandkilde (eds), Warfare and society:  Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives, 9-19, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

38. 2006     ‘Etnografisch veldonderzoek’ (Ethnographic field research), in F. Wester, K. Renckstorf and P. Scheepers, Onderzoekstypen in de communicatie wetenschap, 461-485, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer.

37. 2005      ‘Concerns, norms and social action: Notes on Fredrik Barth’s analytical model’, FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 46/47: 143-57.

36. 2005      ‘Disentangling traditions: Culture, agency and power’, in T. Otto and P. Pedersen (eds), Tradition and agency: tracing cultural continuity and invention, 11-49, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

35. 2004     ‘Work, wealth and knowledge: Enigmas of cargoist identifications’, in Holger Jebens (ed.), Cargo, cult and culture critique, 209-226, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

34. 2003      ’Normer og handling i et antropologisk perspektiv’, in Sten Schaumburg-Müller and Bodil Selmer (eds), Retlig mangfoldighed: En fælles udfordring for retsvidenskab og antropologi, 29-44, Copenhagen: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag.

33. 2002      ‘Manus: the historical and social context’, in Christian Kaufmann, Christin Kocher Schmid and Sylvia Ohnemus (eds), Admiralty Islands: Arts from the South Seas, 29 – 37, Zürich: Museum Rietberg Zürich.

32. 2002      ‘Chefs, big men et bureaucrates: Weber et les politiques de la tradition à Baluan (Papouasie, Nouvelle-Guinée)’,in Christine Hamelin & Eric Wittersheim  (eds), La tradition et l’État: Églises, pouvoirs et politiques culturelles dans le Pacifique, 103 – 129, Paris: L’Harmattan (Cahiers du Pacifique Sud Contemporain).

31. 2000      ‘Tradition between continuity and invention: an introduction’, co-authored with Poul Pedersen, FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 42: 3-17.

30. 2000      ‘Protean perplexities: An introduction’, co-authored with Henk Driessen, in H. Driessen and T. Otto, Perplexities of identification: Anthropological studies in cultural differentiation and the use of resources, 8-26, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

29. 1999      ‘En antropologs afskeds-fest: Om informeret deltagelse og deltagende informanter’, in Ole Høiris, Hans Jørgen Madsen, Torsten Madsen and Jens Vellev. (eds), Menneskelivets mangfoldighed: Arkæologisk og antropologisk forskning på Moesgård, 127-134, Moesgaard, Aarhus University.

28. 1999      ‘Cargo cults everywhere? Review article’, Anthropological Forum 9(1): 83- 98.

27. 1998      ‘Resource management in Lavongai and Tigak Islands: changing practices, changing identities’, in Jürg Wassmann (ed.), Pacific answers to Western hegemony: cultural practices of identity construction, 229-252, Berg Publishers: Oxford.

26. 1998      ‘Paliau’s stories: Autobiography and Automythography of a Melanesian prophet’, Focaal 32: 71-87.

25. 1998      ‘Local narratives of a great transformation: Conversion to Christianity in Manus, Papua New Guinea’, FOLK: Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 40:71-97.

24. 1997      ‘After the “tidal wave”: Bernard Narokobi and the creation of a Melanesian Way’, in 
T. Otto and N. Thomas (eds), Narratives of nation in the South Pacific, 33-64, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.

23. 1997      ‘Narratives of nation in the South Pacific’, co-authored with Nicholas Thomas, in 
T. Otto and N. Thomas (eds), Narratives of nation in the South Pacific, 1-13, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.

22. 1997      ‘Introduction: Transformation and tradition in Oceanic religions’, co-authored with Ad Borsboom, in T. Otto and A. Borsboom, Cultural dynamics of religious change in Oceania, 1-10, Leiden: KITLV Press.

21. 1997      ‘Epilogue. Cultural dynamics of religious change’, in T. Otto and A. Borsboom, Cultural dynamics of religious change in Oceania, 103-112, Leiden: KITLV Press.

20. 1997      ‘Social practice and the ethnographic circle: Rethinking the “ethnographer’s magic” in a late modern world’ (Inaugural lecture, Aarhus University), in: Else Roesdahl, Henrik Thrane and Ton Otto, Tre tiltrædelsesforelæsninger på Moesgaard, 53-96, Aarhus: Det Humanistiske Fakultet.

19. 1997      ‘Informed participation and participating informants’, in C. Jourdan (ed.), Essays in honour of Roger Keesing, Special Volume of Canberra Anthropology 20 (1/2):96-108.

18. 1997      ‘Baitfish royalties and customary marine tenure in Manus, Papua New Guinea’, in P. Brown-Glick and A. Ploeg (eds), Special Issue of Anthropological Forum 7(4):667-690.

17. 1997      ‘De grenzen van de dâr al-islâm: De Pacific’ (The boundaries of the dâr al-islâm: The Pacific), in H. Driessen (ed.), In het huis van de Islam, 100-104, Nijmegen: SUN.

16. 1996      ‘The Asaro Mudmen: Local property, public culture?’, co-author Robert J.Verloop, The Contemporary Pacific 8(2): 349-386.

15. 1995      ‘Antropologisch vergelijken in vergelijkend perspectief:  Enige overwegingen over Nieuw Guinea als Etnologisch Studieveld’ (Anthropological comparison in a comparative perspective: Some reflections on New Guinea as a Field of  Ethnological Study), in C. Baak, M. Bakker, D. van der Meij (eds.), Tales from a concave world. Liber Amicorum Bert Voorhoeve, 425-439, Leiden: Projects Division, Department of Languages and Cultures of South-East Asia and Oceania, Leiden University.

14. 1995      ‘Etnografisch veldonderzoek’ (Ethnographic field research), in H. Hüttner, K. Renckstorf and F. Wester, Onderzoekstypen in de communicatie wetenschap, 496-517, Houten/Diegem: Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum.

13. 1994      ‘Feasting and fighting: Rank and power in precolonial Baluan’, in M.Jolly and M.S.Mosko (eds), Transformations of hierarchy. Structure, history and horizon in the Austronesian world , Special Volume History and Anthropology 7(1-4):223-240.

12. 1994      ‘A bibliography of Manus Province’, Research in Melanesia 18:113-177.

11. 1993      ‘Empty tins for lost traditions? The West's material and intellectual involvement in the Pacific’, in T. Otto (ed), Pacific Islands Trajectories. Five personal views, 1-28, Canberra: The Australian National University.

10. 1993      ‘Cultural history between structure and contingency: the Manus example’, Canberra Anthropology 16(2): 97-126.

9. 1992        ‘The ways of kastam: Tradition as category and practice in a Manus village’, Oceania 62(2):264-283.

8. 1992        ‘The Paliau Movement in Manus and the objectification of tradition’, History and Anthropology 5:427-454.

7. 1992        ‘From Paliau Movement to Makasol: the politics of representation’, Canberra Anthropology 15(2):49-68.

6. 1992        ‘Introduction: Imagining Cargo Cults’, Canberra Anthropology 15(2):1-10.

5. 1990        ‘De antropoloog en het individu: Beschouwingen over ideologie en interculturele vergelijking’ in R. Corbey and P. van der Grijp (eds), Natuur en cultuur: Beschouwingen op het raakvlak van antropologie en filosofie, 139-156, Baarn: Ambo.

4. 1988        ‘Fieldwork report: Ideology and social change on Baluan Island, Manus Province’, Research in Melanesia 11/12:8-18.

3. 1987        ‘De nieuwe ideologie van de Paliau Beweging’ (The new ideology of the Paliau Movement), in P. van der Grijp, T. Lemaire, A. Trouwborst (eds), Sporen in de antropologie, 233-247, Nijmegen: Katholieke Universiteit.

2. 1986        ‘The ways of history’, Review article of Marshall Sahlins, ‘Islands of History’ (1985) Canberra Anthropology 9(2): 72-79.

1. 1984        ‘Waarde, arbeid en betekenis: Antropologie en de kritiek op de economische ideologie’ (Value, work, and meaning: Anthropology and the critique of  economic ideology), in T. Lemaire (ed.), Antropologie en ideologie, 41-79, Groningen: Konstapel.

Book reviews, refereed journals

2008           ‘Simon Harrison: Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West’, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 9(4): 374-377.

2002           ‘Edvard Hviding, Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, place, and politics in maritime Melanesia. University of Hawai’i Press’, Oceania 72(4): 295-296.

2001           ‘Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom (eds), Chiefs Today: Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State; and Don Shuster, Peter Larmour, and Karin von Strokirch (eds), Leadership in the Pacific islands: tradition and the future’, The Contemporary Pacific 13(2): 569-574.

2000           ‘Sylvia Ohnemus, An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islanders: The Alfred Bühler Collection, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Crawford House Publishing’, Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association 22: 113-117.

1998           ‘Nancy Lutkehaus, Christian Kaufmann, et al. (eds), Sepik heritage: Tradition and change in Papua New Guinea. Carolina Academic Press’, Canberra Anthropology 21(1):118-119.

1998           ‘G.W. Trompf (ed.), Cargo cults and millenarian movements: Transoceanic comparisons of new religious movements. Mouton de Gruyter’, Canberra Anthropology 21(1):110-113.

1997           ‘Rituals, religious beliefs and society in Oceania’ (review of Daniel de Coppet and André Iteanu (eds), Cosmos and society in Oceania. Berg, 1995), Focaal 30/31:277-279.

1997           ‘R.J. Foster, Social reproduction and history in Melanesia. Mortuary ritual, gift exchange, and custom in the Tanga Islands, Cambridge University Press’, The Contemporary Pacific 9(2): 529-532.

1995           ‘Michael French Smith, Hard Times on Kairiru Island. Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village. University of Hawaii Press’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1(4):875-876.

1995           ‘Achsah H. Carrier and James G. Carrier, Structure and Process in a Melanesian Society: Ponam’s progress in the Twentieth Century, Chur and Reading: Harwood Academic Publishers’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1(3):654-655.

1994           ‘G.W. Trompf, Melanesian Religion. Cambridge University Press’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 150(1): 237-239.

1993           ‘A. Blok, De bokkerijders: Roversbenden en geheime genootschappen in de landen van Overmaas’, Antropologische Verkenningen 12(2):83-85.

Selection of other publications, not peer reviewed

2004           ‘Social handling og kulturel kompleksitet: Barth om kundskabstradtioner og ”concerns”’, Jordens Folk 39(1): 40-49.

2004           ’Manus: historie, samfund og kultur’, Jordens Folk 39(2): 4-11.

2000           ‘Ethnographic filming on Manus’, Informanten 4: 8-11.

1999           ‘Antropologi 2020’, Jordens Folk 34(4): 6-8.

1999           ‘The anthropological methods: taking them home’, in: Marianne Gullestad, Cathrine Hasse, Ton Otto, Andreas Roepstorff and Karen Ellen Spannow, Antropologiens muligheder og metoder i eget samfund, 44-57, Aarhus: Dansk Etnografisk Forening.

1997           ‘Social practice and the ethnographic circle: Rethinking the “ethnographer’s magic” in a late modern world’, Working Paper 1, Moesgaard: Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology. 52 pages.

1995           ‘The Basel Conference of the European Society for Oceanists: A personal report’, Oceania Newsletter 15: 23-25.

1994           ‘Visiting Fellowship at the ANU, Canberra, Australia’, Oceania Newsletter (Centre for Pacific Studies) 14: 17-18.

1993           ‘Report on the First European Colloquium on Pacific Studies’, Oceania Newsletter (Centre for Pacific Studies) 11/12: 2-20, (co-author: A. Vanhemelrijk).

1993           ‘In memoriam Roger Martin Keesing’, Oceania Newsletter (Centre for Pacific Studies) 11/12: 55-57 (also published in North-East Wantok System Newsletter 22).

1992           ‘Traditie in Melanesië’ (Tradition in Melanesia), in A. Borsboom en A. Ploeg, Stille Zuidzee, 65-66, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Landenreeks).

1992           ‘The politics of tradition in Baluan: Social change and the construction of the past in a Manus society’, Oceania Newsletter (Centre for Pacific Studies) 10:6-12.

1992           ‘Revival of tradition in the Pacific’, Research notes from the Netherlands 1992/2:19.

1990           ‘Antropologisch veldwerk in Papoea Nieuw Guinea’ (Anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea), Nieuwsbrief Centrum voor Studies van Australië en Oceanië 7:2-14.

1989           ‘A sociological study of the baitfish areas in New Ireland and Manus provinces’, (Report for the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Port Moresby), Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 90 pp.

1989           ‘Some notes on two series of photographs from Papua New Guinea’, Introduction to: Two series of photographs from Papua New Guinea, PMB 1010 (Microfilm), Canberra: Pacific Manuscript Bureau, Australian National University.

Research communication

In addition I have been active giving public and keynote lectures, academic and popular, at many different places, and have been interviewed by Newspapers, and on Radio and TV.
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