Prof Ton Otto - Research Portfolio - James Cook University

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Research Disciplines: Cultural Studies (2002)

Anthropology (1601)

Language Studies (2003)
Socio-Economic Objectives: Communication (9502)

Expanding Knowledge (9701)

Publications

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Journal Articles

Otto T (2018) My culture, I perform it, I can change it: film, audience and cultural critique. Visual Anthropology, 31 (4-5), pp. 318-335, DOI:10.1080/08949468.2018.1497329.
Schokkin D and Otto T (2017) Relatives and relations in Paluai. Oceanic Linguistics, 56 (1), pp. 226-246, DOI:10.1353/ol.2017.0009.
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, DOI:10.1093/jdh/epv044.
Otto T (2015) Transformations of cultural heritage in Melanesia: from kastam to kalsa. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (2), pp. 117-132, DOI:10.1080/13527258.2014.914559.
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, DOI:10.1080/14442213.2013.768697.
Henry R, Otto T and Wood M (2013) Ethnographic artifacts and value transformations. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 3 (2), pp. 33-51.

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 (2015) Towards a theory of tradition and agency. In: The Limits of Change: was ist der Wert der best�ndigen dinge?. Neofelis Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 31-54
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

Supervision

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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

Digital Networks and the Trans-Image: A Multi-Sited, Multi-Mediated Ethnography of Assemblage and Activism (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
Ecological Rights and Indigenous Sound Worlds (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
The Movement of Things - The Lives and Relationships of Eighteenth Century Polynesian Artifacts from HMS Pandora (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Kuku Yalanji Artefacts and Traditional Knowledge in the Past and the Present (PhD , Associate Advisor)

Completed

Sounding the reef: comparative acoustemologies of underwater noise pollution (2020, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
“Tobi (or Not) Tobi” Climate change, cultural heritage and community agency: an ethnographic case-study of Tobi Island in the Republic of Palau (2019, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Men bathe upstream, women bathe downstream: gender, natural resource management and development in rural Solomon Islands (2016, 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)

Data

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