Our culture sees women’s bodies as faulty machines, but there are other birthing possibilities
In this essay for The Conversation I discuss how different cultures frame women’s birthing bodies, what this means for women’s…
Stone Masters reviewed by Erick White
As an exercise in comparative regional ethnology … the volume is a thought-provoking success. Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Southeast-Asia…
ABC interview: Happy World Anthropology Day!
February 15 is World Anthropology Day! ABC Radio South West Victoria called me up this year for their Breakfast Show…
Supporting Lao Masters students to conduct qualitative research into mother-and-child health
Qualitative research can be costly and time-intensive and not all students in Lao PDR have the means to undertake their…
More than one way forward for harried households
In my recent article on Inside Story I review Helen Hester’s and Nick Srnicek’s new book After Work: A History…
Out now: As if already free: Anthropology and activism after David Graeber
David Graeber (1961–2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist, who left us with new ways to understand humankind. Josh…
Writer’s workshop in Lao PDR
On August 29, I had the pleasure to meet with a group of writers in Vientiane to discuss female authors’…
Culture, birth and parenting in Lao PDR: Kick-off meeting in Vientiane
What happens when we put birth and parenting at the centre of our understanding of being human? What do women…
‘A reservoir of possibilities’: Inside Story article on David Graeber’s new book
If Pirate Enlightenment is a desert island, it is also a sandpit for play, a creative space for generating new ideas. David…
Stone Masters: Launched!
It has been delightful to see the response to Stone Masters in the first year of its launch. This presentation…