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| Inge Riebe
Adjunct/associate Researcher
College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University (Australia)
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About |
My anthropological work has been mainly in Papua New Guinea among the Kalam and The Binandere and secondarily among the Bundjalung of Australia. My MA and PhD are availabel on line https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/16772#, https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733713204. Publications include: Inge Riebe (1967), 'ANTHROPOMORPHIC STONE CARVINGS ON UNEA ISLAND', The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 76 (3), 374-78.; Inge Riebe (1987), 'Kalam Witchcraft: A Historical Perspective', in Michelle Stephen (ed.), Sorcerer and Witch in Melanesia (Ruggers University Press).;Inge Riebe (1991), 'Do we believe in witchcraft?', in Andrew Pawley (ed.), Man and a Half: Essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in Honour of Ralph Bulmer (Canberra: ANU), 317-26.
I am currently working on translating recordings among the Kalam, writing on colonial history in PNG, and on occult agents of death among Kalam. I am also preparing a work on my long term association with Bundjalung elders many of whom are now sadly deceased.
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Discipline(s) |
Anthropology
Epistemology
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Member of |
Australian Anthropological Society (AAS)  Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) European Society for Oceanists (ESfO) |
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Geographic places |
Melanesia
Australia (area)
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Historical periods |
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
21st century
Precolonial Australia
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Indigenous languages |
Kalam |
Experiences |
Field Research (1965 to 1977)
— University of Sydney, ANU
General anthropology, payback killing, witchcraft and Witchcraft moots. Comparison of conflict Kalam and Binandere. Recordings of moots, small group discussions and interviews.Field Research (1965 to 1979)
— University of Sydney and ANU
history of payback fighting, colonialsim and occult agents of deathMasters Research (1972 to 1974)
— University of Sydney
Detailed description and analysis of killing sequences from 1890s to 1965.Consulting Work (1996 to Now)
— Consulting company Collaborative Solutions
Preparing Assessments of Native Title of groups in NSW and Queensland AustraliaConsulting Work (1996 to Now)
— National Parks and Wildlife, Heritage Council
Assessments of Aboriginal Place declarations,
Oral histories of migrant and refugee experience
Anthropological input to a range of Heritage projectsConsulting Work (1998 to 2024)
— Collaborative Solutions PTY LTD
Aboriginal Place declarations, Native Title expert advice, Owners project for Aboriginal Registrar NSW.PhD Research (2018 to NOW)
— ANU
The field work was from 1975-1977. I started to write it up in 1978 but did not complete and am now working on completion.PhD Research (2021 to 2224)
— ANU
A year of moots transcribed translated and analysed. |
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