Dr Alison Dundon

Qualifications

PhD in Anthropology
Australian National University

Teaching Interests

• Culture and Society: Foundations in Anthropology;

• Community, Gender and Critical Development;

• The Sexual Body

• Health, Illness and Healing;

• Religion, Spirituality and Globalisation;

 

Research Interests

• Papua New Guinea and the Pacific;

• Maternity, gender and HIV/AIDS;

• Sexuality and sexual health;

• Illness, healing and medicine;

• Community-based development and modernity;

• Local leadership, authority and governance in Melanesia

• 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;

• Sensuality of movement, dance and space

• Migration and globalisation.

Publications

Edited Collections

Dundon, A. & C. Wilde Co-Editor 2007. HIV and AIDS in Rural Papua New Guinea. Oceania Vol. 77 No. 1. pp.1-94.

Dundon, A. Editor 2011. Negotiating the Horizon - Living Christianity in Melanesia. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol.12 No. 1 pp. 1-110.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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

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.

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

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

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 (with C. Wilde)

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

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.

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.

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.

2009. Sexuality, Morality and Lifestyle: The ABC of HIV prevention strategies in rural Papua New Guinea. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 10 No. 3: pp. 171-185.

2010. AIDS and 'building a wall' around Christian Country in rural Papua New Guinea. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 21. No. 2. pp. 171-187.

2011. Negotiating the Horizon - Living Christianity in Melanesia, in A. Dundon (ed) 'Negotiating the Horizon - Living Christianity in Melanesia, Special Issue. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 12 no. 1. pp. 1-12.

2011. DNA, Israel and the Ancestors - Substantiating Connections through Christianity in Papua New Guinea, in A. Dundon (ed) 'Negotiating the Horizon - Living Christianity in Melanesia, Special Issue. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 12 no. 1. pp. 29-43.

in press. The Gateway to the Fly: Christianity, Continuity and Spaces of Conversion in Papua New Guinea. in Manderson, L. Smith, W. and Tomlinson, M. eds. Belief Beyond Borders: Faith, migration, and symbol in Asia and the Pacific. Dordrecht and New York: Springer Publishing Company. March 2012.

forthcoming. 'Friendly contact, simple medical work and evangelism': Embodying the circulation of evangelical Christianity in South-Western Papua. in McGowan, F & C. Schwartz eds. Conflicts and Convergences: Critical Perspectives on Christianity in Australia and the Pacific. Brill Books.

 

Files

• 2007. Warrior Women, the Holy Spirit and HIV in rural PNG. Oceania - Dundon_Oceania_2007.pdf [144.8K] (application/pdf)
• 2010. AIDS and 'building a wall' around Christian country in rural PNG - Dundon_TAJA_2010.pdf [94.1K] (application/pdf)
• 2011. DNA, Israel and the Ancestors - Substantiating Connections through Christianity in PNG - Dundon_TAPJA_DNA_2011.pdf [231.3K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 23 Nov 2011