@article{fcc88d383b6a4ebd95de7fb6b5e90b85,
title = "We are not alone: Anthropology in a world of others",
author = "Fred Myers",
note = "Funding Information: Thus, it was, fresh from the US, at age twenty-five, I came to Australia in 1973 armed with a research project and a grant from the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to study {\textquoteleft}The Self and Its Changing Behavioral Environment in Aboriginal Australia.{\textquoteright} This was fundamentally to challenge the group-centered assumptions typical of studies and theories of Aboriginal social life. In a way, I was following up the insights of Jane Goodale{\textquoteright}s Tiwi?Wives (1971), which had emphasized Tiwi creativity and individuality, in landownership, and indirectly I was influenced by the debates about nonunilineal descent groups in Melanesia. But I was also drawing on the person-centered formulation of Hallowell{\textquoteright}s famous (1955) essay {\textquoteleft}Self and Its Behavioral Environment{\textquoteright} and W.E.H. Stanner{\textquoteright}s (1960) portrait of {\textquoteleft}Durmugam: a Nangiomeri,{\textquoteright} about one of his main informants. I had never read another account of an individual Aboriginal Australian like this, a rich portrait of a person situated in the ethnographer{\textquoteright}s own time and not simply an abstract bearer of culture.",
year = "2006",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1080/00141840600733710",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "71",
pages = "233--264",
journal = "Ethnos",
issn = "0014-1844",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "2",
}