Prof Ton Otto ~ Professor

Research Disciplines

• Anthropology (1601)
• Cultural Studies (2002)
• Sociology (1608)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Understanding Past Societies (9505)
• Heritage (9503)

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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

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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)
• Kuku Yalanji Artefacts and Traditional Knowledge in the Past and the Present (PhD , Associate Advisor)
• The Movement of Things - The Lives and Relationships of Eighteenth Century Polynesian Artifacts from HMS Pandora (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Ecological Rights and Indigenous Sound Worlds (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)

Completed

• 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)
• “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)
• Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (2015, PhD , Associate Advisor)
• Sounding the reef: comparative acoustemologies of underwater noise pollution (2020, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)

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