James Fredric Weiner: a Bibliography
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JAMES FREDRIC WEINER: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 INTRODUCTION In 2017, James Fredric Weiner decided that he didn’t want to be Jimmy any more, so the next year he turned into Jaimie Pearl Bloom. Or maybe it was Jaimie who decided to dispose of Jimmy. This bibliography lists Jimmy’s publication and reports written between the time he arrived in Canberra in 1979 and the time when he made his choice to start a new life in 2017. Jimmy spent seven years, from 1979 to 1985, as a PhD student and post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology in what was then the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University (ANU). He was awarded his doctorate in 1984. The focus of his research was the lifeworld of the Foi (or Foe) people who live in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). His doctoral thesis, The Heart of the Pearl Shell, was published in 1988. By the time of its publication, Jimmy was ensconced in the ‘other’ anthropology department at the ANU – the one then known as the Department of Prehistory (later Archaeology) and Anthropology, which belonged to the so-called ‘Faculties’, where undergraduates were taught. Jimmy spent four years, from 1986 to 1989, lecturing in that department. Then, between 1990 to 1994, Jimmy spent another four years lecturing in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Jimmy came back to Australia towards the end of 1994 to take up a position as Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Adelaide. This was a decision he soon came to regret. Jimmy was not cut out to be an administrator. So, in 1998, he moved back to Canberra, re- attached himself to the ANU, and embarked on what turned out to be the second phase of his academic career. Jimmy was no longer a ‘pure’ anthropologist, but became — dare one say it — a ‘consulting’ anthropologist. It was in this capacity that he joined the ANU’s Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program as a Visiting Fellow in 2001. He retained that status until 2015 while he went about the business of social mapping in PNG and the documentation of native title in Australia. His last work as an applied anthropologist was undertaken in 2016. Colin Filer Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University February 2021 3 BIBLIOGRAPHY Monographs 1988. The Heart of the Pearl Shell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1991. The Empty Place: Poetry, Space, and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1995. The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2001. Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology. Oxford: Berg. 2015 (with Don Niles). Songs of the Empty Place: The Memorial Poetry of the Foi of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Canberra: ANU Press. Edited collections 1988. Mountain Papuans: Historical and Comparative Perspectives from New Guinea Fringe Highlands Societies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1995. Too Many Meanings: A Critique of the Anthropology of Aesthetics. Special issue of Social Analysis 38. 1999 (with Lissant Bolton). Multi-Sited Ethnography: Methodological Innovations in Current Australian Anthropological Research. Special issue of Canberra Anthropology 22(2). 2001 (with Alan Rumsey). Emplaced Myth: The Spatial and Narrative Dimensions of Knowledge in Australian Aboriginal and Papua New Guinea Societies. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 2001 (with Alan Rumsey). Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing. (Republished in 2004 by Sean Kingston Publishing.) 2002. Melanesia: The Future of Tradition. Special issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly 26(3): 12-56. 2006 (with Katherine Glaskin). Custom: Indigenous Tradition and Law in the 21st Century. Special issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 7(1). 2007 (with Katie Glaskin). Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Canberra: ANU Press (Asia Pacific Environment Monograph 3). Journal articles 1979. ‘Restricted Exchange in the New Guinea Highlands.’ Canberra Anthropology 2(2): 75-93. 1982. ‘Forms of Co-Operative Activity in Hegeso, Pimaga Sub-District.’ Yagl-Ambu 9(2): 18-27. 1982. ‘Substance, Siblingship and Exchange: Aspects of Social Structure in New Guinea.’ Social Analysis 11: 3-34. 1984. ‘Comment on “The Procreative Model: The Social Ontological Basis of the Gender-Kinship System” by Anna Yeatman.’ Social Analysis 16: 20-23. 1984. ‘Sunset and Flowers: The Sexual Dimension of Foi Spatial Orientation.’ Journal of Anthropological Research 40: 577-588. 4 1985. ‘Affinity and Cross-Cousin Terminology Among the Foi.’ Social Analysis 17: 93- 112. 1985. ‘The Treachery of Co-Wives: The Mythical Origin of Mediating Food Items in Foi.’ Journal de la Société des Océanistes 41: 39-50. 1986. ‘Blood and Skin: The Structural Implications of Sorcery and Procreation Beliefs Among the Foi of Papua New Guinea.’ Ethnos 51: 71-87. 1986. ‘Men, Ghosts and Dreams among the Foi: Literal and Figurative Modes of Interpretation.’ Oceania 57: 114-127. 1986. ‘The Forbidden Sex in the New Guinea Highlands.’ Reviews in Anthropology 13: 324-330. 1986. ‘The Social Organisation of Foi Silk Production: The Anthropology of Marginal Development.’ Journal of the Polynesian Society 85: 421-439. 1987. ‘Where the Women Are, the Cattle Are Not.’ Man (NS) 22: 360. 1988. ‘Durkheim and the Papuan Male Cult: Whitehead's Views on Social Structure and Ritual in New Guinea.’ American Ethnologist 15: 567-573. Reprinted (1995) in P. Hamilton, ed., Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments. London: Routledge. 1991. ‘What Men Engender in the New Guinea Highlands.’ Reviews in Anthropology 19: 85-95. 1991. ‘Reply to J. Pouwer's “The Hidden Flow”.’ Bijdragen 147: 509-10. 1992. ‘Anthropology Contra Heidegger—Part I: Anthropology's Nihilism.’ Critique of Anthropology 12: 75-90. 1993. ‘Anthropology Contra Heidegger—Part II: The Limit of Relationship.’ Critique of Anthropology 13: 285-301. 1993. ‘Comment on T. Hays, “The New Guinea Highlands’: Region, Culture Area, or Fuzzy Set?”.’ Current Anthropology 34: 157-158. 1993. ‘To Be at Home with Others in an Empty Place: A Reply to Mimica.’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 4: 233-244. 1994. ‘The Origin of Petroleum at Lake Kutubu.’ Cultural Anthropology 9: 37-57. 1994. ‘Convention, Motivation and Resistance in Discourse with Reference to Foi Myth.’ Semiotica 99: 81-100. 1994. ‘Obituary: Frank X. Magne.’ Anthropology Today 10(3): 17. 1994. ‘Report on the First Colloquium of Amazonianists and Melanesianists, 1994.’ Anthropology Today 10(4): 23-4. 1994. ‘The Politics of Selfhood and Gender in New Guinea.’ Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 25: 263-267. 1995. ‘The Secret of the Ngarrindjeri: The Fabrication of Social Knowledge.’ Arena Journal 5: 17-32. 1995. ‘Editorial: The New Social Analysis.’ Social Analysis 37: 3-4. 1995. ‘Allegro and Introduction: An Introduction to the Problem of Meaning in the Anthropology of Art and Aesthetics.’ Social Analysis 38: 6-17. 1995. ‘Technology and Techne in Trobriand and Yolngu Art.’ Social Analysis 38: 32-46. 5 1995. ‘Beyond the Possession Principle: An Energetics of Massim Exchange.’ Pacific Studies 18(1): 128-136. 1995. ‘The Discourse of Contrast in Foi: A Reply to Kulick.’ American Ethnologist 22: 612-13. 1995. ‘Anthropologists, Historians and the Secret of Social Knowledge.’ Anthropology Today 11(5): 3-7. Reprinted (2003) in K. Endicott and R. Welsch, eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Cultural Anthropology. Guilford CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. 1996. ‘Sherlock Holmes and Martin Heidegger: Comment on Julian Thomas' Time, Culture and Identity.’ Archaeological Dialogues 3(1): 35-39. 1997. ‘Must Our Informants Mean What They Say?’ Canberra Anthropology 20(1/2): 89-102. 1997. ‘On Televisualist Anthropology: Representation, Aesthetics, Politics.’ Current Anthropology 38: 197-235. 1997. ‘“Bad Aboriginal” Anthropology: A Reply to Ron Brunton.’ Anthropology Today 13(4): 5-8. 1997. ‘Avoiding the Bewitchments of Language: A Personal Tribute to Alfred Gell.’ Social Analysis 41(2): 4-8. 1997. ‘The Unspoken Myth: A Reply to Juillerat.’ Social Analysis 41(2): 55-65. 1998. ‘Afterword: Revealing the Grounds of Life in Papua New Guinea.’ Social Analysis 42(3): 135- 142. 1999. ‘Afterword: The Project of Wholeness in Contemporary Anthropology.’ Canberra Anthropology 22(2): 70-78. 1999. ‘Culture in a Sealed Envelope: The Concealment of Australian Aboriginal Heritage and Tradition in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5: 193- 210. Reprinted (2002) in M. Mundy, ed., Law and Anthropology. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing (International Library of Essays on Law and Legal Theory). 2000. ‘The Epistemological Foundations of Contemporary Aboriginal Religion: Some Remarks on the Ngarrindjeri.’ Aboriginal History 24: 260-263. 2000. ‘The Anthropology of and for Native Title: A Review Essay.’ The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 1(2): 124-132. 2001. ‘Reply: The Body of Myth in Melanesia and Beyond.’ Pacific Studies 24(1/2): 89-122. 2002 (with James Fox, Alan Rumsey, Francesca Merlan and Don Gardner). ‘Comment on Fredrik Barth’s “An Anthropology of Knowledge”.’ Current Anthropology 43: 15-16. 2002. ‘Religion, Belief and Action: The Case of Ngarrindjeri “Women’s Business” on Hindmarsh Island, South Australia, 1994-1996.’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 13: 51-71. 2002. ‘Between a Rock and a Non-Place.’ Reviews in Anthropology 31: 95-101. 2002. ‘Assuming the Mercenary Position: Changing Roles in Long-Term Fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.’ The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 3(2): 33-43. 2002. ‘Melanesia: The Future of Tradition.’ Cultural Survival Quarterly 26(3): 12-14. 2003. ‘The Law of the Land.’ The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14: 97-110. 2004. ‘Comment on Edmond.’ Oceania 75: 58-60. 6 2004. ‘Australian Anthropology and the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Case.’ Anthropology Today 20(3): 24.