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CURRICULUM VITAE John Morton May 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE John Morton May 2015 Name: John Albert Morton Home and private business address: 56 Kildey’s Road, Cootharaba, Qld. 4565 Australia Telephone and fax: +61 (0)7 5485 3082 Mobile: +61 (0)408 064 709 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Affiliation: Research Associate, Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (not for communications, except email). Date of Birth: 26th April 1948 Place of Birth: London, United Kingdom Nationality: Australian 1. Tertiary Education 1968-1969, 1971-1973 University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, England. 1974-1979 St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, England. 1980-1982, 1983-1985 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (ex-Department of Prehistory and Anthropology), Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University, Canberra. 2. Tertiary Qualifications 1973 BA (Hons) in Geography, University of Sussex. 1975 Diploma in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. 1979 MLitt in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. 1986 PhD in Social Anthropology, Australian National University. 3. Employment (Post-1980) March - May 1981 Part-time tutor in Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University. Jan. - June 1982 Full-time lecturer in social anthropology, Darwin Community College, Winnellie, NT. Feb. 1984 Coordinator of an intensive Aboriginal Studies course at The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, for visiting undergraduates from Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA. Feb. 1985 Coordinator of lecture program on ‘Aborigines and the Land’ for Elder-Hostels and The Centre for Continuing Education, The Australian National University. Jan. 1986 - March 1987 Postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. Also during this period some guest lectures were given on Aboriginal religion to students in the Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts. March 1987 - Dec. 1989 Tutor (with occasional lectures and administrative duties) in the School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University. This position was specifically an Aboriginal Studies one, although it also involved the teaching of general anthropology, particularly first year courses. Also some supervision of honours and postgraduate students. July 1988 - May 1989 ‘Tutor’ (with lecturing duties) of course entitled ‘Aboriginal Australia’ at Workers’ Educational Association of NSW, Sydney. July - Aug. 1989 Part-time tutor in Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University. Jan. 1997 – Dec. 2000 Senior Curator (Central Australia) in the Indigenous Cultures Program, Museum of Victoria (secondment from La Trobe University (see below). Jan. 1990 – April 2011 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology / School of Sociology and Anthropology / School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. Courses taught on introductory 2 anthropology, core concepts in general anthropology, Australian Aborigines, race / culture, symbolism and religion. Some contribution to Psychoanalytic Studies and Aboriginal Studies areas. Also extensive supervision of free reading, honours and postgraduate students, together with numerous guest lectures at various Melbourne venues. April 2011 - Independent consultant anthropologist working principally in native title cases (but also part-time consulting since 1980 (see below under 13). Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2014 Sessional lecturer in Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland. Taught course on Native Title Anthropology. April 2015 Guided research placement at the Australian National University, Centre for Native Title Anthropology, School of Archaeology and Anthropology. 4. Field Research 1981 - Fieldwork with Australian Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. During this time I have worked principally with Arrernte people from Alice Springs, Amoonguna, Henbury, Hermannsburg, Jay Creek, Maryvale and Santa Teresa, but also with individuals in a number of other communities. More recently I have worked with Bandjalang people from the area around Coraki/Box Ridge, Gunai/Kurnai people of Gippsland, Mandandanji and Gomeroi people in south-east Queensland, and Kariyarra people in the Pilbara. The range and character of this fieldwork can be gauged by looking at the list of submitted and unpublished reports since 1980 (see below under 13). In brief, the work can be divided into four categories: 1) sacred site and heritage protection; 2) documentation of traditional ownership and other matters connected with the Northern Territory Land Rights Act; 3) documentation in connection with native title claims; and 4) investigation of Aboriginal family relationships relating to legal cases. 5. Prize 1984 Congress Prize (anthropology/linguistics division) awarded by the 44th International Congress of Americanists - US$1,000 - for the paper ‘Women as values, signs and power’ (see publications below under 11, 1983-84). 6. Awards 1974 Social Science Research Council (UK) - 1 year award for the Diploma in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. 3 1975 Social Science Research Council - 2 year award for the degree of Master of Letters, University of Oxford. 1980 The Australian National University - 4 year scholarship for the degree of PhD in the Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, The Faculties. 7. Positions and Membership of Organisations 1976 - 77 Secretary of the Oxford Anthropological Society. 1984 - 85, 86 - 87 Editor of Canberra Anthropology. 1984 - 88 Associate member of The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. 1988 - 89 Member of editorial board, Mankind. 1988 - 94 Member of editorial board, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society. 1988 - Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 1989 - Member of Survival International. 1990 - 92 Member of the Australian Anthropological Society. 1990 - 2010 Member of the American Anthropological Association. 1992 - Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society. 1994 - Member of the European Society for Oceanists. 1996 - Member of the International Advisory Board, Anthropological Forum. 1997 - 2012 Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2000 - 01 Vice-President of the Australian Anthropological Society 2000 - Research Associate, Museum Victoria 2011 - Associate Fellow, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University 8. Committees and Administration 1988 - 1989 Member of Ethics Committee, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University. 4 1992 - 1993 Chairperson of Budget and Staff Allocation Committee, Department of Sociology, La Trobe University. 1991 - 1993 Member of Ethics Committee, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. 1992 - 1994 Member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Committee, La Trobe University. 1993 – 1997 Coordinator of Aboriginal Studies Program, La Trobe University 1998 - 2002 Member of the Research Advisory Committee, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 2004 - 2006 Program Convenor, Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences La Trobe University 2004 - 2008 Convenor of Aboriginal Studies Program, La Trobe University 2006 - 2008 Member of the Indigenous Studies Teaching and Research Committee, La Trobe University 9. Books Published (Including Special Issues of Journals) 1988 (Jointly edited and annotated with Warner Muensterberger.) Géza Róheim’s Children of the Desert, II: Myths and Dreams of the Aborigines of Central Australia (Oceania Ethnography No 2). Sydney: Oceania Publications. 1995 (Jointly edited with Martha Macintyre.) Persons, Bodies, Selves, Emotions. Social Analysis 37. 1997 (Jointly edited with Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey.) Scholar and Sceptic: Australian Aborigines and Contemporary Social Enquiry: Essays to Honour L.R. Hiatt. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. 1999 (Edited) Anthropology at Home in Australia. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 10(3). 2005 (Jointly edited with Philip Batty and Lindy Allen.) The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer. Melbourne: Miegunyah. 10. Papers Published in Journals 1976 ‘Dan Sperber and the Anacondas: an Ethnographic Comment on Sperber’s Theory of Symbolism’. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 7: 109-120. 5 1982 (with Audrey Butt Colson) ‘Early Missionary Work among the Taruma and Waiwai of Southern Guiana - the Visits of Fr. Cuthbert Cary-Elwes, S.J. in 1919 and 1923’. Folk 24: 203-261. 1984 ‘The Domestication of the Savage Pig: the Role of Peccaries in Tropical South and Central America and their Relevance for the Understanding of Pig Domestication in Melanesia’. Canberra Anthropology 7: 20-70. 1986 ‘Being in Two Minds: Critical Remarks on Primitive Mythology and the Rehabilitation of Lévy-Bruhl’. Canberra Anthropology 9(1): 23-59. 1987a ‘The Effectiveness of Totemism: “Increase Ritual” and Resource Control in Central Australia’. Man 22:453-74. 1987b ‘Singing Subjects and Sacred Objects: More on Munn’s ‘Transformation of Subjects into Objects” in Central Australian Myth’. Oceania 58:100-18. 1989a ‘Singing Subjects and Sacred Objects: a Psychological Interpretation of “the Transformation of Subjects into Objects” in Central Australian Myth’. Oceania 59: 280-98. 1989b ‘Mama, Papa, and the Space Between: Children, Sacred Objects, and Transitional Phenomena in Aboriginal Central
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