CAPSTRANS RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Dr Andrew Lattas

Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Qualifications

BA (Honours in Anthropology), University of Adelaide, 1979
Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology), University of Adelaide, 1987.

Research Programs

Australia in the Asia Pacific

Research Specialisation

Dr Lattas has published extensively on race relations in general and in particular on the cultural and social form they assume in Papua New Guinea and in Australia. His publications include one book, 2 edited collections, 31 refereed articles and 25 book reviews. Of the refereed articles, 14 have been on race relations in Australia, 15 on Melanesia, and 2 of a theoretical nature.

Languages

Greek

Current Research Projects

• Government, Religion and the Problem of Moral Order in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
• Religion and the regrounding of sovereignty in Papua New Guinea 
• Logging, corruption and protest in PNG
• "They Always Seem to be Angry": The Cronulla Riot and the Civilising Pleasures of the Sun

Recent Publications

• (2007) ‘Cargo Cults and the Politics of Alterity’, Anthropological Forum, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 149-161.  
• (2006) ‘Reviewing the reviews: intellectual fields, the liberal state and the problem of alterity’. In Double Binds: Critical Indigenous Studies edited by Lea, T; Cowlishaw, G; and Kowal, E., pp. 185-202. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press.
• (2006) ‘Technologies of Visibility: The Utopian Politics of Cameras, Televisions, Videos and Dreams in New Britain’, Australian Journal of Anthropology, 17 15-31.
• (2006) ‘Reseeing processes of seeing: the material poetics and politics of cameras, television, videos and dreams in New Britain’, The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 17 (1):15-31.
• (2006) ‘The utopian promise of government’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (NS), 12 (1): 129-150.
• (2005) ‘Capitalizing on Complicity: Cargo Cults and the Spirit of Modernity on Bali Island (West New Britain)’, Ethnohistory, 52 (1): 47-80.
• (2001) ‘The Underground Life of Capitalism: Space, Persons and Money in Bali (West New Britain)’, Emplaced Myth, Univrsity of Hawaii, Honolulu, 161-188
• (2001) ‘Redneck Thought: Racism, Guilt and Aborigines’, UTS Review, 7(1) 106-124
• (2000) ‘Racist Beliefs Versus Nationalist Practices’, Oceania, 70,3 272-274
• (2000) ‘Telephones, Cameras and Technology in West New Britain Cargo Cults’, Oceania, 70, 4 325-344.

Current Research Students

• Caroline Holmstrom Hoban, PhD, “Gallery Display: Aboriginal Art And The Construction Of Aboriginalility”. (Principle supervisor). Expected submission 2007.

Past Research Students

• Diamanda Rosso-Buckton, PhD, “Feed a Cold and Starve a Demon: The Poetics of Madness in Kefalonia”. Completed studies December 2006.

Organisational Affiliations

• 1995 – present - Member of Editorial Board of Oceania.