Comment to Stephen Baines' article

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  • Francesca Merlan The Australian National University, School of Archaeology and Anthropology. Canberra, Federal District, Australia.

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https://doi.org/10.4000/12e2z

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PPGAS 50 Years, Stephen Baines, Comment

Abstract

I appreciate having been asked to comment on the career of Stephen Grant Baines. However, I must say clearly at the outset that my knowledge of the Brazilian anthropological scene is limited. I have been a researcher, teacher, head of department and professor in Australia with long-standing research experience with Indigenous Australian people, communities, and issues inside and outside the academy, a broader interest in Indigenous peoples world-wide, and in fundamentally related matters, such as colonialism, transformation, and Indigenous socio-politics. It is in relation to the conduct of anthropological research with indigenous peoples, and national contexts in which such research is done, that I got to know Stephen.

 

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Author Biography

Francesca Merlan, The Australian National University, School of Archaeology and Anthropology. Canberra, Federal District, Australia.

Francesca Merlan was a professor of anthropology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, from 1995 to 2021; she is now Emerita. She has conducted field research since the latter 1970s in northern Australia, the 1980s in Papua New Guinea with Alan Rumsey, and continues in both regions; and in the 1990s in Europe (Germany). She has long been interested in critical, empirically accountable theorization and description of social and cultural change. Her book of 2018 attempts to describe and theorize the long-term trajectory of indigenous-nonindigenous difference in Australia; she is interested in this topic comparatively, especially in the (Anglo) settler colonies but also, contrastively, beyond them. She is qualified in linguistics and anthropology, and continues endangered language documentation in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory of Australia and research in Papua New Guinea.

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Published

2024-09-30

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Merlan, Francesca. 2024. “Comment to Stephen Baines’ Article”. Anuário Antropológico 49 (2):e-12470 . https://doi.org/10.4000/12e2z.

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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2024): Anuário Antropológico

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PPGAS 50 Anos

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