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Biography
Professor James J. Fox was educated at Harvard (AB '62) and Oxford (B Litt. '65, DPhil. '68) where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at various American Universities: Harvard, Cornell, Duke and Chicago and at various European Universities: Leiden, Bielefeld and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Professor Fox's area of primary interest is Indonesia, with special focus on Java and eastern Indonesia. He has carried out considerable research in Timor, most recently in East Timor. More generally, his interests are in comparative issues affecting the whole of the Asia Pacific region.
Career highlights
- Professorial Fellow/Professor, Australian National University (1975-present)
- Jensen Memorial Lecturer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt (2007)
- Visiting Professor, Australian Chair, Harvard University (2006-07)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2001)
- Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU (1998-2006)
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2001)
- Senior Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (1996)
- Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (1993)
- Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar (1977-78)
- Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (1971-72)
- École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1986); Chicago (1986-87); Leiden (1988)
- Visiting Professor, Nusa Cendana, Kupang (1972-73); Duke (1968-69); Cornell (1969); Bielefeld (1981)
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Harvard University (1969-75)
Research interests
History and anthropology of Indonesia and East Timor; rural development and resource management; study of social organisation and symbolic systems; linguistic anthropology; comparative Austronesian ethnology.
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Natural Resource Management
- FISHERIES SCIENCES
- ANTHROPOLOGY
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Studies of Asian Society
- Studies of Pacific Peoples' Societies
- Asian History
- Islamic Studies
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The Semantics of Canonical Parallelism: Oral Composition among Rotinese Poets, Eastern Indonesia
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/06 → 31/05/10
Project: Research
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Austronesian Paths and Journeys
Fox, J., 2021, 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Paths of life and death: Rotenese life-course recitations and the journey to the afterworld
Fox, J., 2021, Austronesian Paths and Journeys. James Fox (ed.). 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press, p. 193-230Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Tsunami of Pesticide Use for Rice Production on Java and Its Consequences
Prihandiani, A., Bella, D. R., Chairani, N. R., Winarto, Y. & Fox, J., 2021, In: Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 22, 4, p. 276-297Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Towards a comparative ethnography of Austronesian 'paths' and 'journeys'
Fox, J., 2021, Austronesian Paths and Journeys. James Fox (ed.). 1st ed. Canberra: ANU Press, p. 1-29Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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A Research Note Regarding Trobriand Tabu and Its Comparative Significance
Fox, J., 2019, In: Oceania. 89, 3, p. 336-342Research output: Contribution to journal › Article