Dr Alison Dundon

Qualifications

PhD in Anthropology
Australian National University 1999

Teaching Interests

Culture and Society: Foundations in Anthropology; Community, Gender and Critical Development; Anthropology of Health and Medicine;
Anthropology of Religion, Christianity and Globalisation

Research Interests

Papua New Guinea and the Pacific; gender and HIV/AIDS in the Pacific; sexuality, maternity and sexual health; illness and medicine; community-based development and modernity; mining, agriculture and natural resource development; Christianity and the nation; Pacific art, cultural revival and the politics of custom/culture; the environment, work and movement; senses of place; gender and migration.

Publications

Dundon, A. 2002. Dancing around Development: Crisis in Christian Country in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Oceania. March 72:3: 215-229.

Dundon, A. 2002. Mines and Monsters: A Dialogue on Development in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA). August 13:2: 139-154.

Dundon, A. 2004. Tea and Tinned Fish: Christianity, Consumption and the Nation in Papua New Guinea. Oceania 75:2: 73-88.

Dundon, A. 2005. The Sense of Sago: Motherhood and Migration in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Journal of Intercultural Studies 26(1-2): 21-38.

Dundon, A. & C. Wilde 2007. Introduction: HIV and AIDS in rural PNG Oceania Special Issue HIV and AIDS in rural PNG, Dundon. A & C. Wilde (eds). Vol. 77 No. 1: 1-11

Dundon, A. 2007. Warrior Women, the Holy Spirit and HIV in rural PNG. Oceania Special Issue HIV and AIDS in rural PNG, Dundon. A & C. Wilde (eds). Vol. 77 No. 1: 29-42

Dundon, A. 2007. Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre, in N. Stanley ed. The Future of Indigenous Museums: Perspectives from the southwest Pacific, London: Berghahn.

Dundon, A. 2007. A cultural revival and the custom of Christianity in Western Province, PNG in K. Robinson. Ed. Self and Subject in Motion: Southeast Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans London: Palgrave.

Dundon, A. 2008. Jumping fish: engendering contestation and development on the waterways of the Aramia River in Papua New Guinea Oceania. Special Issue: Waterways ed. V. Strang: 78(1): 6-17.

Files

• Dundon, A & C. Wilde 2007 Introduction: HIV and AIDS in rural PNG Oceania - Dundon_Wilde_Oceania_2007.pdf [115.5K] (application/pdf)
• Dundon, A. 2005. The Sense of Sago: Motherhood and Migration in Papua New Guinea and Australia. Jour - Dundon_J._Interc_Studies_2005.pdf [116.1K] (application/pdf)
• Dundon, A. 2007. Warrior Women, the Holy Spirit and HIV in rural PNG. Oceania - Dundon_Oceania_2007.pdf [144.8K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009