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Dr Thomas Reuter

Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology

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Biography
Research
Publications

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Dr Thomas Reuter previously taught at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and has held ARC Post-doctoral and Queen Elizabeth II Fellowships at the University of Melbourne before joining the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash

Biography

Qualifications:

BA (Anthro/Social theory) Melbourne
Grad. Cert. (University Teaching) Melbourne
PhD(Anthropology) Australian National University

Professional Activities:

President of the Australian Anthropological Association from 2002-2005
Convenor / Co-convenor of the Melbourne Indonesia Forum from 2001 to 2003.
Co-founder of the World Council of Anthropological Associations and currently a member of the Executive Committee of this organization

Research

D Reuter's research interests include:

Anthropology and Politics of Religion
Indonesian Studies (especially Java and Bali)
Comparative Southeast Asian and Pacific Studies
Minorities, Marginality and Representation
Social Organization, Status Economy and Social Justice
Anthropological Theory and Methodology

Publications

Thomas is the author of the following books: Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2002. The House of Our Ancestors: Precedence and Dualism in Highland Balinese Society. Leiden (Netherlands): KITLV Press, 2002.

He also edited Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge-Curzon Press, 2003. Budaya dan Masyarakat di Pergunungan Bali. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor, 2005. Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian world. Canberra: Australian National University E Press, 2006.

Representative publications include:

1992. "Precedence in Sumatra: An analysis of the construction of status in affinal relations and origin groups". Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land en Volkenkunde, 148: 489-520.
1998. "Houses and Compounds in the Mountains of Bali". In J. Davison (ed.), Indonesian Heritage: Architecture. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet. Pages 38-39.
1998. "The Ritual Domains of the Mountain Balinese: Regional Alliance and the Idea of a Shared Origin". In J.J. Fox (ed.), Indonesian Heritage: Religion and Ritual. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet. Pages 82-83.
1998. "The Banua of Pura Pucak Penulisan: A Ritual Domain in the Highlands of Bali". Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 32 (1):55-109
1999. "Communicating through the Invisible: The Paradox of Association and the Logic of Ritualised Interaction on the Island of Bali". Anthropological Forum, 9 (1): 39-63
1999. "People of the Mountains - People of the Sea: Negotiating the Local and the Foreign in Bali". In L. H. Connor and R. Rubinstein (eds), Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century. Honolulu: University of Hawai"i Press. Pp. 155-180 (incl. 2 photos and map)
2000. "Der Umgang mit dem Fremden auf Bali: Betrachungen zu den Auswirkungen der Globalisierung im Hinblick auf kulturspezifische Interpretationsmodelle". In B. Hauser Schäublin & K. Rieländer (eds), Bali: Kultur - Tourismus - Umwelt: Die indonesische Ferieninsel im Schnittpunkt lokaler, nationaler und globaler Interessen. Hamburg: Abera Verlag
2001. "Great Expectations: Hindu Revival Movements in Java". The Australian Journal of Anthropology 12(3): 327-338. Special Issue 13: Beyond Syncretism: Indigenous expressions of world religions.
2002. Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press. 400 pp. plus index and photos.
2002. The House of Our Ancestors: Precedence and Dualism in Highland Balinese Society. Leiden (Netherlands): KITLV Press.
2002. Submission No. 55, to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade's Inquiry into Australia's Relations with Indonesia. Published on the Australian Senate website: www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jfadt/Indonesia/IndonSubs.htm and also in the report Near Neighbours - Good Neighbours: An Inquiry into Australia's Relationship with Indonesia, JSCFADT, 2004, Appendix A, p. 185.
2002. Submission to the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) inquiry on National Research Priorities. Published on the DEST website: www.detya.gov.au/priorities/sub_framework.htm
2003. Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. T.A. Reuter (ed.). London: Routledge-Curzon Press. With introduction and conclusion by the editor.
2003. Mythical Centres and Modern Margins: A Short History of Encounters, Crises, Marginality, and Social Change in Highland Bali. In T. Reuter (ed.) Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge-Curzon Press, pp. 256-304
2003. Introduction. In T. Reuter (ed.) Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge-Curzon Press, pp. 1-16.
2003. Indonesia in Transition: Concluding Reflections on Engaged Research and the Critique of Local Knowledge. In T. Reuter (ed.) Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge-Curzon Press.
2003. The Bali Bombing: Understanding the Tragedy Beyond al-Qaeda and Bush's "War on Terror". Inside Indonesia, 73(Jan-Mar 2003):4-5.
2003. A Response to Prof. Hauser-Schäublin's "The Precolonial Balinese State Reconsidered". Current Anthropology, 44(2):172-173.
2003. "Anthropology: Continuity and Change". Presidential address. AAS Newsletter 92(2003):2-5.
2003. Submission to the Australian Research Council Review of the Humanities and Creative Arts (HCA) disciplines (Invited submission on the state of the discipline of anthropology in Australia in the capacity of the President of the Australian Anthropological Society). Confidential, not published.
2004. "Java's Hindu Revival". Hinduism Today. October-December 2004 issue, pp.52-53.
2004. "Anthropology in Australia: The Challenges Ahead". Presidential address. AAS Newsletter 96(12/2004):1-3.
2004. "Convenor's Report". In Indonesia Forum Annual Report2003. Melbourne: the University of Melbourne. Pp. 3-5.
2004. "Java"s Hindu Revival". Hinduism Today. October-December 2004 issue, pp.52-53. Republished by United Press International, Religion & Spirituality Forum, http://religion.upi.com , 22 March 2005.
2004 (with, Chaplin, S., Vu, H.L., Rankin, B. & Dantas, A.). Research-Led Teaching. Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE), teaching and learning resources booklet series. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne.
2005. "Running out of Tricks: The ethnographic experience and the politics of culturalism". In U. Rao and J. Hutnyk (eds), Celebrating Transgression: Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of cultures. New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2005. Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Budaya dan Masyarakat di Pergunungan Bali. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor. Indonesian translation of "Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali", Honolulu, Hawaii University Press.
2005. "World Council of Anthropological Associations: Towards a Global Anthropology." The Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter, 99 (Sept. 2005):1-3.
2005. "Towards a Global Anthropology". American Anthropological News. 4/2005.
2006. Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian world. Edited by T. Reuter. Canberra: ANU E Press. (Introduction and one individual chapter by the editor.)

In Press

2006. "Origin and Precedence: The Construction and Distribution of Status in the Highlands of Bali in the Highlands of Bali". In M.P Vischer, Precedence: Processes of Social Differentiation in the Austronesian World. Canberra: Comparative Austronesia Project, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
2006. "The Fragmented Self: Cross-cultural Difference, Conflict and the Lessons of Ethnographic Experience." Paideuma, Vol 54.

In Review

2006. Globalisation and Regionalism: The rise of a new cultural movement in Bali, Indonesia, after the 2002 terror attack. Paper submitted for review as a chapter in a book edited by Liz Morrell, to be published by Ottawa University Press.
2006. Global Trends in Religion: Terrorism, Tourism, Migration and the Reaffirmation of Hindu Identity in Bali. Extension of a paper first presented at the AAS Annual Conference, University of Adelaide, 27-30 September 2005. Submitted to Christina Rocha as a contribution to an edited volume, title pending, UWA Press)