Dr Geoffrey Gray |
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| Research Fellow, Tradition and Transformation | |
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GPO Box 553 AIATSIS Canberra ACT 2601 |
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Telephone: +61 2 6246 1107 Facsimile: +61 2 6249 7714 |
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Dr Geoffrey Gray, has published extensively on the history of Australian social anthropology, particularly the relationships between anthropologists, government and Indigenous (colonised) peoples. He is keenly interested in the ways anthropologists sought to influence governments –both state and commonwealth – in the formulation and implementation of policy and to represent the voice of Indigenous peoples in these arenas, for the period 1920-1960.
He has also published articles on a wide range of topics that includes academic freedom, race and racism (including whiteness studies), (post)colonialism, citizenship, expert witnesses, native title, World War II (especially war in the South West Pacific and the role of anthropology and individual anthropologists), and the pastoral industry in northern Australia. Much of this work has appeared in journals such as Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Aboriginal History, Oceania, Journal of Pacific History and Australian Aboriginal Studies.
He is a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. His most recent monograph is an edited volume, Before It's Too Late: Anthropological Reflections, 1950-1970, Sydney (2001). He is the author of the forthcoming, Controlling and Developing: A history of Australian Anthropology, 1920-1960, Aboriginal Studies Press.
Recent Selected Publications
(2007) A Cautious Silence: The Politics of Australian Anthropology, (Published August 2007, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra)
(2006) 'The ANRC Has Withdrawn Its Offer': Paul Kirchhoff, academic freedom and the Australian academic establishment, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol.52, no. 3, pp. 362-77.
(2006) 'Stanner's War: WEH Stanner, the Pacific War, and its aftermath', Journal of Pacific History, vol.41, no. 2, pp. 145-63.
(2006) 'A Triune anthropologists appears?' Gerhardt Laves, Ralph Piddington and Marjorie Piddington, La Grange Bay, 1930, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2006/1, pp. 23-35.
(2006) 'Looking for Neanderthal Man, Finding a Captive White Woman: The story of a documentary film', Health and History, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 69-90.
(2005) A deep-seated aversion or a prudish disapproval: Relations with Elkin, in Bruce Rigsby and Nicholas Peterson (eds.): Donald Thomson, the Man and Scholar. Melbourne: Museum of Victoria and the Academy of the Social Sciences.
(2005) A wealthy firm like Vesteys gives us our opportunity: An attempt to reform the cattle industry, Journal of Northern Territory History, No. 15, pp. 37-54.
(2005) Australian Anthropologists and WWII, Anthropology Today, Vol 21 (3), pp.18-21.
(2004) Naturalising Discourses: Anthropological Knowledge, Native Title, and Aboriginality in Settled Australia, in S. Schech and B. Waldham (eds.): Placing Race and Localising Whiteness. Adelaide: Flinders University Press.
(2004) ‘Mr Chinnery should be given the recognition he deserves’: EW Chinnery in the Northern Territory. Journal of Northern Territory History, No. 15, pp. 21-33.2003.
(2003) There are many difficult problems: Ernest William Pearson Chinnery – government anthropologist, The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 38 (3), pp. 313-330.
(2002) Dislocating the self: Anthropological field work in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1934–1936, Aboriginal History, Vol. 26, pp. 23-50 (published March 2003).
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