Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Melanesia; Aboriginal Australia; linguistic anthropology; intersubjectivity, child language socialization, sign languages, multimodal communication, comparative poetics
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD (Chicago)
Biography
I am currently involved in a major collaborative research project on 'Children's Language Learning and the Development of Intersubjectivity'. Other recent projects include an interdisciplinary comparative one on verbal art which resulted in the volume Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands. (For further details including a CV and most of my publications in downloadable form, search me on academia.edu)
Career highlights
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, 1978-1995; Co-editor, review editor and editorial board member, Oceania 1985-; Advisory Editor, Current Anthropology 2000-2002; Editorial board member, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1999-2015, The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA), 2008-, American Ethnologist, 2016-2019; Anthropological Consultant to Northern Land Council, 1980-1993, and to the Kimberley, Kamali and Yamatji Land Councils, 1998-2002, 2010; elected to Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2004; Vice President of Australian Anthropology Society, 2007-9, President 2010-11
Expertise Areas
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Body, Language and Socialisation across Cultures
Rumsey, A. & Merlan, F.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/04/23 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)
Evans, N., Angwin, A., Bishop, J., Christiansen, M., Corbett, G. G., Cutler, A., Escudero, P., Evans, B., Fletcher, J., Gray, R. D., Jones, C., Kidd, E., Levinson, S. C., Lieven, E., Matthews, S., Meakins, F., Meyerhoff, M., Ng, B. C., Nordlinger, R., Rowland, C., Rumsey, A., Simpson, J., Sterelny, K., Thieberger, N. A., Torres Cacoullos, R., Travis, C., Wigglesworth, G., Wiles, J. & Yip, V.
Australian National University (ANU), University of Western Sydney, University of Queensland (UQ), University of Melbourne, Australian Research Council (ARC)
15/08/14 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Children's language learning and the development of intersubjectivity
Rumsey, A. & Merlan, F.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
8/02/13 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
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Consolidation and expansion of PARADISEC, Pacific and Regional Archive of Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
Pawley, A., Bowden, F., Ross, M. & Rumsey, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/05 → 31/12/11
Project: Research
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Sound of one quotation mark: Quoted speech in Indigenous Australian narrative
Rumsey, A., Mansfield, J. & Evans, N., 2023, Celebrating Indigenous Voice. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , Robert L. Bradshaw , Luca Ciucci and Pema Wangdi (ed.). 1st ed. Germany: de Gruyter, p. 33-72Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Recent research on language and culture in Australia and Oceania
Rumsey, A., Singer, R. & Tomlinson, M., 2022, Approaches to Language and Culture. Svenja Völkel and Nico Nassenstein (ed.). 1 ed. Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 443-470Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner
Biersack, A., Goldman, L., Glaskin, K., Young, M., Strathern, M., Ingold, T., Leach, J., Crook, T., Rumsey, A., Merlan, F. & Gilberthorpe, E., 2021, In: Oceania. 91, 1, p. 2-25Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Vale Marshall Sahlins: Sahlins on 'culture' through the years: Some personal reflections
Rumsey, A., 2021, In: Australian Journal of Anthropology, The. 32, 2, p. 96-99Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Egophoricity, engagement, and the centring of subjectivity
Rumsey, A., 2020, Evidentiality, egophoricity, and engagement. Henrik Bergqvist and Seppo Kittilä (ed.). 1 ed. Germany: Language Science Press, p. 61-93Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter