Research Disciplines

• Anthropology (1601)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Heritage (9503)

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Journal Articles

• Otto T and Hardy D (2016) Transforming artefacts into digital heritage: developing interactive databases for use by Aboriginal communities. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, 10. pp. 117-132
• Otto T (2016) History in and for design. Journal of Design History, 29 (1). pp. 58-70
• Otto T (2015) Transformations of cultural heritage in Melanesia: from kastam to kalsa. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (2). pp. 117-132
• Dalsgaard S and Otto T (2014) Value, transvaluation and globalization. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 13 (2). pp. 1-6
• Glowczewski B, Henry R and Otto T (2013) Relations and products: dilemmas of reciprocity in fieldwork. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 14 (2). pp. 113-125
• Henry R, Otto T and Wood M (2013) Ethnographic artifacts and value transformations. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3 (2). pp. 33-51
• Otto T and Willerslev R (2013) Prologue: value as theory: value, action, and critique. HAU: journal of ethnographic theory, 3 (2). pp. 1-10
• Otto T (2013) Back to the village: return migrants and the changing discourse of tradition in Manus, Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum, 23 (4). pp. 428-440
• Otto T and Willerslev R (2013) Introduction: "value as theory": comparison, cultural critique, and guerilla ethnographic theory. Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3 (1). pp. 1-20

Book Chapters

• Kjærsgaard M, Halse J, Smith R, Vangkilde K, Binder T and Otto T (2016) Introduction: design anthropological futures. In: Design Anthropological Futures. Bloomsbury, London, UK, pp. 1-16
• Smith R and Otto T (2016) Cultures of the future: emergence and intervention in design anthropology. In: Design Anthropological Futures. Bloomsbury, London, UK, pp. 19-36
• Otto T and Smith R (2013) Design anthropology: a distinct style of knowing. In: Design Anthropology: theory and practice. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK, pp. 1-29

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 44+ research outputs authored by Prof Ton Otto from 2005 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• No Race, No Competition: considering the Possibility of Post-race Theory in Australia: a Study with Migrant Teachers (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Radio Broadcasting and Community Curation in the Torres Strait Islands (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Kuku Yalanji Artefacts and Traditional Knowledge in the Past and the Present (PhD , Associate Advisor)
• The Infinite Conquest: A Critical Study of Agency and Tradition in a Huave Community Mexico. (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Image-ining Modernity: A Comparative Collaborative Ethnography of Future-Making Through Experimental Video Arts in Australia and Benin. (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Tobian Customary Principles of Ownership in Contemporary Negotiations over Helen Reef in the Republic of Palau (PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Digital Networks and the Trans-Image: A Multi-Sited, Multi-Mediated Ethnography of Assemblage and Activism (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The Movement of Things - The Lives and Relationships of Eighteenth Century Polynesian Artifacts from HMS Pandora (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• A grammar of Paluai: the language of Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea (2014, PhD , Associate Advisor)
• 'Skin has eyes and ears': audio-visual ethnography in a Sepik society (2014, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (2015, PhD , Associate Advisor)
• Culture, economy and identity: a study of the Oraon ethnic community in the Barind region of Bangladesh (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Calling the dead: spirits, mobile phones, and the talk of God in a Sepik community (Papua New Guinea) (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Men bathe upstream, women bathe downstream: gender, natural resource management and development in rural Solomon Islands (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• People-Centered Innovation in Cultural Heritage Communication (2013, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Otto, T. (2012) Unity through Culture: Balopa Cultural Festival , Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea. James Cook University

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