Christianity plays a foundational role in many communities in sub-Saharan Africa. As migrants from the African continent arrive in Australia, the usual roles of religion (i.e., connecting to the spiritual world and strengthening community) become even more pronounced. Churches become trusted support institutions for settlement. Here, we consider the complexities of trust for Christian African migrants as they negotiate settlement in Australia. For them, relationships of trust within their own communities and with Australian society at large are situated, ambivalent, and contingent. Indeed, for this cohort, trust is both powerful and fragile. We argue that in order to overcome the uncertainties of life, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, they mobilise Christianity as a way of establishing trust. Overall, this paper calls for greater scholarly attention to how relationships of trust are established and negotiated in daily life among migrants, and particularly to the role of religion in this process.
{"title":"African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust","authors":"Cristina Rocha, Kathleen Openshaw","doi":"10.1111/taja.12532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12532","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Christianity plays a foundational role in many communities in sub-Saharan Africa. As migrants from the African continent arrive in Australia, the usual roles of religion (i.e., connecting to the spiritual world and strengthening community) become even more pronounced. Churches become trusted support institutions for settlement. Here, we consider the complexities of trust for Christian African migrants as they negotiate settlement in Australia. For them, relationships of trust within their own communities and with Australian society at large are situated, ambivalent, and contingent. Indeed, for this cohort, trust is both powerful and fragile. We argue that in order to overcome the uncertainties of life, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, they mobilise Christianity as a way of establishing trust. Overall, this paper calls for greater scholarly attention to how relationships of trust are established and negotiated in daily life among migrants, and particularly to the role of religion in this process.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"206-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144131523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor-Leste","authors":"Amy Rothschild, Susanna Barnes","doi":"10.1111/taja.12529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"151-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores emerging domesticities in Atauro, Timor-Leste, in relation to efforts to make homestays available for potential tourists. In exploring these new domesticities, we elucidate the ‘civilising process’ that is happening in terms of the ways in which people consider hygiene, diet, and their relationship with non-human animals. In addition, the advent of potential tourism engenders the emergence of a new trend in domestic architecture. At the same time, this raising of homestays has intensified the workload of especially younger women, preventing them from taking part in collective activities and agriculture, which makes them more dependent on the market economy. Our analysis of these processes points to the heuristic potential of intersectional analysis to better understand development dynamics in contemporary Timor-Leste.
{"title":"Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor-Leste","authors":"Kelly Silva, Maria Luiza Vietes Pedrosa","doi":"10.1111/taja.12528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores emerging domesticities in Atauro, Timor-Leste, in relation to efforts to make homestays available for potential tourists. In exploring these new domesticities, we elucidate the ‘civilising process’ that is happening in terms of the ways in which people consider hygiene, diet, and their relationship with non-human animals. In addition, the advent of potential tourism engenders the emergence of a new trend in domestic architecture. At the same time, this raising of homestays has intensified the workload of especially younger women, preventing them from taking part in collective activities and agriculture, which makes them more dependent on the market economy. Our analysis of these processes points to the heuristic potential of intersectional analysis to better understand development dynamics in contemporary Timor-Leste.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"175-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yuupurnju: A warlpiri song cycle By Henry Cooke Anderson Jakamarra, Jerry Patrick Jangala, Steven Dixon Japanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu Jampijinpa, Carmel O'Shannessy, and Myfany Turpin, Gadigal: Sydney University Press. 2024. pp. v + 93, references, appendix, AUD$80.00 (Sc.), ISBN 9781743329481, AUD$17.99 (ebook). ISBN 9781743329573","authors":"Andrew Faleatua","doi":"10.1111/taja.12524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12524","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"232-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144131532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The made-up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty, Ithaca and London: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press. 2022. pp. xvii + 179. US$27.95 (pbk), US$130 (hbk). ISBN: 9781501766671","authors":"Martha Macintyre","doi":"10.1111/taja.12523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"358-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derriere le Miroir (but in parallel) John Richens Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other Melbourne:Melbourne University Press. 2022. pp xi 2–260.ISBN 9780522878141","authors":"Lawrence J. Hammar","doi":"10.1111/taja.12516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"349-354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self–Other Relations across Southeast Asian Languages By Dwi Noverrini Djenar and Jack Sidnell (Eds), Singapore: NUS Press. 2023. pp. ix + 249, bibliography, index, SGD $52.00 (Hc.), ISBN 9789813251847","authors":"Jian Shan","doi":"10.1111/taja.12522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"362-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143247457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uneven connections: A partial history of the mobile phone in Papua New Guinea By Robert J. Foster. Canberra: ANU press. 2024. pp. xvi + 221, notes, figures, bibliography, index. AU$59.99. ISBN 9781760466251","authors":"David Lipset","doi":"10.1111/taja.12521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"366-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in semarang By Lukas Ley (Ed.), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 240 pp. (pbk). US$27.00 (Sc). ISBN: 9781517908881. US$108.00 (Hc.). ISBN: 9781517908874","authors":"Sebastian Salay","doi":"10.1111/taja.12520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"360-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper describes a safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusations that has been initiated by people of the Hewa-speaking community located in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Belief in witchcraft and the killing of accused witches has a long cultural history among Hewa people, where it was formerly part of intergroup conflict and patterns of dominance and retribution. Contemporary Hewa witch killing often involves the use of torture and the targeting of children and infants, although these have no historical precedent. The safehouse has been established inside the community itself. Locating the safehouse where accusations and killing are taking place is a deliberate strategy to change the belief system that supports the identification and killing of accused witches. This model also ensures that people do not become internally displaced when they flee their accusers. The safehouse is designed to be self-sufficient so that is does not become reliant on aid from external organisations.
{"title":"An indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea","authors":"Michael Main","doi":"10.1111/taja.12518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12518","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper describes a safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusations that has been initiated by people of the Hewa-speaking community located in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Belief in witchcraft and the killing of accused witches has a long cultural history among Hewa people, where it was formerly part of intergroup conflict and patterns of dominance and retribution. Contemporary Hewa witch killing often involves the use of torture and the targeting of children and infants, although these have no historical precedent. The safehouse has been established inside the community itself. Locating the safehouse where accusations and killing are taking place is a deliberate strategy to change the belief system that supports the identification and killing of accused witches. This model also ensures that people do not become internally displaced when they flee their accusers. The safehouse is designed to be self-sufficient so that is does not become reliant on aid from external organisations.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"272-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12518","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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