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From the archive Revisiting Bloodwood Bore Shannyn Palmer 17 November 2023 An extract from Unmaking Angas Downs, which has won this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Australian History Books & Arts Being human Martha Macintyre 4 November 2023 An anthropologist sees a radically distinctive humanity among Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples Books & Arts Other people’s objects Martha Macintyre 6 September 2023 Adam Kuper’s survey of museums culminates in a plea for “cosmopolitan” institutions Books & Arts A reservoir of possibilities Holly High & Joshua O. Reno 28 July 2023 David Graeber’s latest book isn’t his best, but still we love it

Books & Arts Was Derek Freeman “mad”? Martha Macintyre 28 January 2018 The controversial critic of anthropologist Margaret Mead was a man driven to extremes From the archive Communist, scientist, lover, spy Klaus Neumann 3 October 2015 The personal and the political are bound up in the life of anthropologist, Stasi informer and one-time Canberra resident Fred Rose Essays & Reportage Friend or foe? Anthropology’s encounter with Aborigines Gillian Cowlishaw 19 August 2015 Anthropologists might have been implicated in colonial policies and practices, writes Gillian Cowlishaw, but for many decades theirs was the only scholarly discipline… Books & Arts “When I forget, I’m well. Remembering, even now, I just go crazy” Klaus Neumann 23 December 2013 Does the equation that infuses the work of truth commissions – that more memory equals more reconciliation – always meet the needs of people affected by widespread…