Papers by Gregory L Acciaioli
Vibrant, 2022
This brief article is intended to complement “The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice ... more This brief article is intended to complement “The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings” in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored to address them, in carrying out a global survey of anthropologists. The principal aim of the GSAP was to create a knowledge base about the professional practice of anthropologists globally that could be used by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) and its member associations to help promote the value and relevance of the discipline. With its fifty-odd member associations from all continents, the WCAA was uniquely positioned to gather these data, and the GSAP process effectively remade this network of associations into a large-scale research consortium. The development and intent of the survey, the particular actors involved and actions taken in its development, are thus critical to its fruition, as well as its shortcomings. The historical process itself contains valuable insights for any future endeavors to survey practitioners of anthropology on a global scale.
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In 1826, an English merchant, Alexander Hare, brought a group of people from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as South Africa and New Guinea to an atoll northwest of mainland Australia in the Indian Ocean. Hare took them to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as indentured workers, slaves and/or convicts. A year later, a Scottish rival, Clunies Ross, took over.
His subjects became known as “Cocos Malays”. During the 150-year rule of the Clunies Ross dynasty, the Cocos Malays developed a unique culture and dialect. They adopted Scottish jigs and music in their performance repertoire. Still living on their island home, the Cocos Malays are now Australian citizens. Some seek recognition from the Australian government as “Indigenous”.
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Proceedings of International Scientific Conference towards sustainable development: Climate change response for sustainability and security. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2020
People in developing countries, particularly indigenous peoples, are comparatively more vulnerabl... more People in developing countries, particularly indigenous peoples, are comparatively more vulnerable than others because of their high exposure to climate hazards, reliance upon climatesensitive activities, and low adaptive capacity. In Nepal, Indigenous peoples comprise 35% of the population and they are at high risk of climate change-induced challenges due to the nature of their agricultural and other livelihood practices. In this study, we assess how climate change makes the Tharu Indigenous people vulnerable. Our analysis is based on 229 survey interviews with individual males and females, six focus group discussions, participant observation, and other participatory research methods in two rural villages, Thapuwa and Bikri, of Bardiya district in the western tarai of Nepal. We found that flooding is the main hazard affecting livelihoods followed by drought and other extreme events. Flooding is considered more serious than drought since the latter risk is mitigated by pumping underground water. Flooding from the Babai River has become more frequent than in the past; in addition, short intense rainfall events has occurred more frequent, destroying houses, agricultural land and crops, livestock, and grains. Windstorms, cold waves, and hail storms are other natural hazards appearing in the studied local communities. Cold spells throughout December to January and strong winds during mid-March to early June have made rural life hard. Indigenous knowledge, often combined with scientific knowledge, has led to adaptations to reduce climate change risks, but they are not adequate. We conclude that sustainable ways of river management to reduce flooding effects and less destructive farming practices to adapt to natural hazards could reduce the vulnerability of the Tharu and local communities in the tarai region of Nepal.
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The 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-smart agriculture: Transforming food systems under a changing climate, Bali, Indonesia, 2019
Local knowledge, which integrates traditional, Indigenous and scientific knowledge (FAO, 2004), h... more Local knowledge, which integrates traditional, Indigenous and scientific knowledge (FAO, 2004), helps to deal with complex problems such as climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture (Figure 1) (Galloway McLean, 2009).
The Tharu people have pre-dominantly engaged in agriculture for centuries (Hamilton, 1889) and their knowledge and agriculture practices are often described in relation to climate change in Nepal (Devkota et al., 2011).
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The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug 1, 1997
"Showing Signs of Violence" deals with the ceremonies of "pangngae", a mock h... more "Showing Signs of Violence" deals with the ceremonies of "pangngae", a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the centre of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistakable and real. Kenneth M. George vividly details the rites of "pangngae", from the headhunters' secret and predatory journey downriver to the week of public festivity that follows their exuberant return. He puts special emphasis on the songs, speeches, and liturgies of the headhunt and shows how this ritual is neither a relic form of primitive violence nor an obsolete discourse on the social horizons of a remote community. In fact, the themes, purposes, and circumstances of "pangngae" make it the most public and community-defining form of ceremonial violence for this small mountain enclave as it confronts the dilemmas presented by Indonesian modernity and state culture.
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NUS Press Pte Ltd eBooks, Jun 14, 2018
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Cambridge University Press eBooks, 2007
Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous people and env... more Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous people and environmental protection. In the Malay Archipelago, which contains 2 of the 34 biodiversity hotspots identified globally, rampant commercial exploitation is jeopardizing species and ...
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Taylor & Francis eBooks, Feb 16, 2010
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This book was published in 2007. Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerni... more This book was published in 2007. Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous and environmental protection. In the Malay Archipelago, which contains two of the twenty-five biodiversity hotspots identified globally, rampant commercial exploitation is jeopardizing species and rural livelihoods. While protected areas remain the only hope for the imperiled biota of the Malay Archipelago, this protection requires consideration of the sustenance needs and economic aspirations of the local people. Putting forward the views of all the stakeholders of protected areas - conservation practitioners and planners, local community members, NGO activists, government administrators, biologists, lawyers, policy and management analysts and anthropologists - this book fills a niche in the area of biodiversity, and is a highly valuable and original reference book for graduate students, scientists and managers, as well as government officials and transnational NGOs.
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7th International Symposium of Journal Antropologi Indonesia, Mar 7, 2019
Among the development interventions of the Indonesian government in its first decade of independe... more Among the development interventions of the Indonesian government in its first decade of independence was a program of dumping fish spawn of the usually pond-cultivated species Mozambique tilapia ( Oreochromis mossambicus ), locally known as mujair or nila , into numerous lakes across Indonesia. This paper traces the chain of consequences across decades of this fish’s introduction in Lake Lindu in highland Central Sulawesi beginning in 1951. Initially, this intervention did not provide the enhanced livelihood opportunities to the Indigenous Lindu people intended by the government. Instead, Bugis migrants, IDPs from sectarian conflict in South and Central Sulawesi in the 1950s, used gill nets to intensify harvesting of the species and established a fish marketing system to the Palu Valley and beyond by recruiting kin and clients through chain migration. However, when the Bugis depleted the stock of tilapia in the early 1990s, the Indigenous Lindu people struck back, having been re-empowered by their successful resistance to a hydro-electric scheme (PLTA) at Lindu and by their emergent partnership with the Lore Lindu National Park park authority and the park’s co-manager, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), recognised through community conservation agreements. Once the lake had been reseeded, the Lindu customary council forced Bugis to adhere to customary ombo restrictions on fishing as part of reasserting control of the lake and surrounding resources. This emergent role has also given the Indigenous Lindu some control of further in-migration to the Lindu plain, further countering the socioeconomic dominance of migrants. This process of power reversal was also facilitated by the widening of the trail to accommodate the use of motorcycles by the Central Sulawesi Integrated Area Conservation and Development Project (CSIACDP) and the availability of cheap credit for motorcycle purchase in the early 2000s, which facilitated motorcycle purchases by Indigenous Lindu families and greatly lessened the role of Bugis intermediate marketers for transport of produce from the plain. Keywords: Development, Power Relations, Bugis, Lindu, Protected Areas
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics
Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including tho... more Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those that might be unproductive from the human point of view. Are there lessons to be learnt about decolonisation of the tropics from a focus on ‘weeds’? The contributors to this photo-essay collectively consider here the lessons that can be learnt about the relationship between colonisation and decolonisation through a visual focus on life forms that have been defined as weeds and, consequently, subject to a contradictory politics of care, removal, and control – of germinating, blooming, and cutting. The essay demonstrates the continuing colonial tensions between aesthetic and practical evaluations of many plants and other lifeforms regarded as ‘invasive’ or ‘out of place’. It suggests a decolonial overcoming of oppositions. By celebrating alliances of endemics and ‘weeds’ regeneratively living together in patterns of complex diversity, we seek to transcend policies of differentiation, ex...
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Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
This brief article is intended to complement “The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice ... more This brief article is intended to complement “The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings” in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored to address them, in carrying out a global survey of anthropologists. The principal aim of the GSAP was to create a knowledge base about the professional practice of anthropologists globally that could be used by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) and its member associations to help promote the value and relevance of the discipline. With its fifty-odd member associations from all continents, the WCAA was uniquely positioned to gather these data, and the GSAP process effectively remade this network of associations into a l...
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Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by th... more The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different countries. This article summarizes some of the GSAP’s most general global findings. The GSAP data suggest that within the discipline of anthropology, woman-identified practitioners predominate, except in archaeology and linguistics; yet, women were more likely to report being under-employed and/or not fairly compensated for their work. Universities were the largest employers of anthropologists, but public policy work and public engagement featured centrally in many respondents’ work. The social and cultural anthropology subdisciplines appear to b...
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Frontiers in Political Science
Indigenous knowledge can function as a basis of innovation in agriculture because it is not only ... more Indigenous knowledge can function as a basis of innovation in agriculture because it is not only culturally accepted, but often also environmentally adaptive. The debates and misunderstandings regarding the relations between Indigenous and scientific knowledge are transforming into a trend to integrate all knowledge to deal with complex issues, such as climate change. In this study we explore the understandings of the Tharu people of their farming system in relation to adaptation and mitigation of climate change, based on mixed methods design using both ethnographic analysis of their specific agriculture practices from participant observation and a survey of 229 households in the western Tarai of Nepal. Among our findings is the fit of the traditional agricultural calendar of the Tharu with the labor regimen of agricultural seasons. We found that conservation tillage-oriented agricultural practices, such as relay cropping, including zero-tillage, remain important in the farming syst...
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Jurnal Masyarakat dan Budaya, 2020
Drawing on past and recent literature using the concept frontier, this paper presents a case stud... more Drawing on past and recent literature using the concept frontier, this paper presents a case study of processes of frontierisation and defrontierisation in the Lindu plain of Central Sulawesi. After establishing the rationale for a more processual framework to analyse frontiers, it traces the history of the Lindu plain along the four dimensions of frontierisation related to control, extraction, settlement and conservation from the precolonial era to the contemporary post-Reformasi period. Using this Lindu case study, it seeks to reconceptualise such notions as the closing of frontiers by drawing attention away from certain demographic and economic thresholds of occupation and by emphasising instead the exercise of agency on the parts of marginalised local peoples in frontier regions, allowing them to reverse the asymmetric relations of the (dominant) occupiers and (subordinated) occupied that have constituted frontiers. This is illustrated by the changing position of the Indigenous ...
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In 1826, an English merchant, Alexander Hare, brought a group of people from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as South Africa and New Guinea to an atoll northwest of mainland Australia in the Indian Ocean. Hare took them to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as indentured workers, slaves and/or convicts. A year later, a Scottish rival, Clunies Ross, took over.
His subjects became known as “Cocos Malays”. During the 150-year rule of the Clunies Ross dynasty, the Cocos Malays developed a unique culture and dialect. They adopted Scottish jigs and music in their performance repertoire. Still living on their island home, the Cocos Malays are now Australian citizens. Some seek recognition from the Australian government as “Indigenous”.
The Tharu people have pre-dominantly engaged in agriculture for centuries (Hamilton, 1889) and their knowledge and agriculture practices are often described in relation to climate change in Nepal (Devkota et al., 2011).
In 1826, an English merchant, Alexander Hare, brought a group of people from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as South Africa and New Guinea to an atoll northwest of mainland Australia in the Indian Ocean. Hare took them to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as indentured workers, slaves and/or convicts. A year later, a Scottish rival, Clunies Ross, took over.
His subjects became known as “Cocos Malays”. During the 150-year rule of the Clunies Ross dynasty, the Cocos Malays developed a unique culture and dialect. They adopted Scottish jigs and music in their performance repertoire. Still living on their island home, the Cocos Malays are now Australian citizens. Some seek recognition from the Australian government as “Indigenous”.
The Tharu people have pre-dominantly engaged in agriculture for centuries (Hamilton, 1889) and their knowledge and agriculture practices are often described in relation to climate change in Nepal (Devkota et al., 2011).
Orang Kokos dapat memperkuat tuntutan mereka sebagai “Orang Asli” Australia dengan merujuk pada beberapa fakta. Pulau-pulau tersebut tidak dihuni manusia sebelum kedatangan Orang Kokos dan penguasa mereka dari Eropa. Lebih dari itu, Orang Kokos mempertahankan tradisi budaya yang panjang; ada yang merasa dikolonisasi; dan ada yang merasa dilupakan oleh negara Australia.
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