Dialectics and Dynamics : The Legacy of Robert Tonkinson's Anthropological Work in Australia and the Pacific (Hardcover)

Foreword Greg Acciaioli 1. The Dialectic of Robert Tonkinson’s Dynamic Mode of Argumentation: Paradoxes, Adaptive Strategies and Accommodations Greg Acciaioli 2. Melanesian Kastom and Its Transformations Lamont Lindstrom 3. Inclusion-Exclusion: Recasting the Issue of Boundaries for the Western Desert Laurent Dousset 4. From Descent, to Multiple Pathways, to Descent: What’s Happening in the Western Desert Lee Sackett 5. The Archaeology of Memory: The Recursive Relationship of Martu Rock Art and Place Jo McDonald and Peter Veth 6.How Bob Tonkinson and The Jigalong Mob Influenced My Analysis of Kakadu’s Joint Management Christopher Haynes 7. Autonomous Selves in a Bureaucratised World: Challenges for Mardu and Wiradjuri Gaynor Macdonald 8. Warlpiri and the Pacific ? Ideas for an Intercultural History of the Walpiri Paul Burke 9. Back to the Village: Return Migrants and the Changing Discourse of Tradition in Manus, Papua New Guinea Ton Otto 10. Aboriginal ‘Difference’ and ‘Autonomy’ Then and Now: Four Decades of Change in a Western Desert Society Robert Tonkinson