Cultural knowledge

Our country, our healer: exploring the traditional lithotherapeutics of the Aboriginal pharmacopoeia

Aboriginal people of the Greater Hunter region of New South Wales had access to two exceptional geological formations, which provided them with access to valuable mineral resources.

Oceanic encounters: exchange, desire, violence

This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the long

Archaeology and Natural History

This project aims to provide critical new information on the archaeology and natural history of one of the world’s largest unregulated desert river systems.

AusStage, Phase 5: Australian live performance and the world - global networks, national culture, aesthetic transmission

AusStage Phase 5: Australian live performance and the world – global networks, national culture and aesthetic transmission: AusStage stimulates new approaches to collaborative research and pioneers

Connecting Indigenous Community Photographies: a transnational case study

The project aims to conduct the first transnational comparison of Indigenous community-controlled photography, exploring Indigenous peoples ways of seeing and documenting their worlds.

Children born of war: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 - 1944

The Project worked with more than forty Children Born of War in Australia, most born to Indigenous Australian mothers and African American fathers during the second world war, to document their exp

Collaborative science for monitoring of Northern Territory marine megafauna

As a nation, we have responsibility for the conservation of biological resources in accordance with traditional cultural practices that are compatible with conservation or sustainable use.

Placenames and Personal Names in Yolngu Society and Country Through Time

Placenames and Personal Names in Yolngu Society and Country Through Time.

Facing new worlds: comparative histories of Australasia and North America

Facing New Worlds turns around a major exhibition to be held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 in conjunction with the Smithsonian.

Howitt & Fison’s anthropology

Howitt and Fison carried out some of the earliest anthropological research in Australia and left extensive archival materials on language, kinship, and social organisation.