Professor Christopher Gregory
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Economic Development And Growth 140202
- History Of Ideas 220209
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Anthropology Of Development 160101
- Anthropology 1601
Research interests
The political economy and culture of rice-growing in central India as expressed in women's oral epics; kinship and marriage in central India; theories of gift exchange; commodities and money in comparative and historical context.
Researcher's projects
Present: Translation and analysis of women's oral epics from central India; analysis of the Halbi kinship system of Bastar District, central India.
Past: Rural marketing, land tenure and merchant-family structure in central India; gift and commodity exchange in colonial Melanesia; teaching with ethnographic film.
Publications
- Gregory, C 2018, 'Trees, Knots and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 175-177pp.
- Gregory, C 2017, 'History as Concealed Autobiography? Brij Lal's Historical Dictionary of Fiji', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 109-113pp.
- Gregory, C, Sanchez, A, Carrier, J et al. 2017, ''The Indian Gift': A critical debate', History and Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 553-583.
- Gregory, C 2016, 'From public policy to pure anthropology: A genealogy of the idea of the hybrid economy', in Will Sanders (ed.), Engaging Indigenous Economy: Debating diverse approaches, ANU Press, Acton ACT 2601, pp. 29-42.
- Gregory, C 2016, ''Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors': Our Debt to Graeber', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 176-181.
- Gregory, C 2015, 'Forum Rethinking Euro-Anthropology: The Case for a Eurocentric anthropology?', Social Anthropology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 330-364.
- Gregory, C 2014, 'SUSPENDED KINSHIP AND YOUTH SOCIALITY IN TAMIL NADU INDIA', Current Anthropology, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 175-199.
- Gregory, C 2014, '8th ANTHONY FORGE MEMORIAL LECTURE (2014) Unequal Egalitarianism: Reflections on Forge's Paradox', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 197-217.
- Gregory, C 2014, 'On religiosity and commercial life Toward a critique of cultural economy and posthumanist value theory', HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 45-68.
- Gregory, C 2014, The three faces of Thomas Piketty: reflections on a #1 best-seller.
- Gregory, C. A. (2014). The Three Faces of Thomas Piketty [abridged version]. Arena Magazine, 132(Oct/Nov), 23-28.
- Gregory, C 2013, 'Chhattisgarh: at the crossroads', in Berger, P and Heidemann, F (ed.), The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, themes and theory, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon UK, pp. 46-65.
- Gregory, C 2013, 'The value question in India Ethnographic reflections on an ongoing debate', HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 116-139.
- Foale, S, Adhuri, D, Alino, P et al. 2013, 'Food security and the Coral Triangle Initiative', Marine Policy, vol. 38, pp. 174-183.
- Gregory, C 2012, 'On money debt and morality: Some reflections on the contribution of economic anthropology', Social Anthropology, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 380-396.
- Gregory, C 2011, 'Skinship Touchability as a virtue in East-Central India', HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 179-209.
- Gregory, C 2009, 'Economy's Tension: The Dialectics of Community and Market Stephen Gudeman', New Political Economy, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 303-309.
- Gregory, C 2009, 'On the ranking of shells and people: comments on "A Papuan plutocracy: ranked exchange on Rossel Island"', Suomen Antropologi, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 81-91.
- Gregory, C 2009, 'Brotherhood and Otherhood in Bastar', in Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera (ed.), Contemporary Society Tribal Studies: Volume 8: Structure and Exchange in Tribal India and Beyond, Concept publishing, india, p. 8.
- Gregory, C 2009, 'Multimedia Reviews 'I Want to Produce My Own Seeds...'', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 67-73.
- Gregory, C 2009, 'After Words: From Ethos to Pathos', in Karen Sykes (ed.), Ethnographies of moral reasoning : living paradoxes of a global age, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, new york, pp. 189-202.
- Gregory, C 2009, 'Whatever happened to economic anthropology?', Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 285-300.
- Gregory, C 2006, 'Cowries and Conquest: Prelude to a Postscript', in Aram A Yengoyan (ed.), Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 220-225.
- Gregory, C 2006, 'Hill, Polly (1914-2005)', in D A Clark (ed.), The Elgar companion to development studies, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, pp. 223-226pp.
- Gregory, C 2006, 'Cowries and Conquest: Toward a Subalternate Quality Theory of Money', in Aram A Yengoyan (ed.), Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, pp. 193-219.
- Gregory, C 2005, 'The story of Kotgudin Mata Devi: The cave-dwelling girl who was raised by a tiger', in Savyasaachi (ed.), Between the Earth and the Sky: The Penguin Book of Forest Writings, Penguin Books, india, pp. na.
- Gregory, C 2005, 'Book review: India: A National Culture?', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 190-191.
- Gregory, C 2004, 'Armstrong, Wallace Edwin (1896-1980)', in H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: From the earliest times to the year 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. online.
- Gregory, C 2004, 'The oral epics of the Women of the Dandakaranya Plateau: A Preliminary Mapping', Journal of Social Sciences: interdisciplinary reflection of contemporary society, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 93-104.
- Gregory, C & Vaishnav, H, eds, 2003, Lachmi Jagar: Gurumai Sukdais Story of the Bastar Rice Goddess, Kaksad Publications, Chhattisgarh, India.
- Gregory, C 2001, 'Ramistic commonplaces, L�vi-Straussian mythlogic and binary logic', in Maranda, Pierre (ed.), The Double Twist: From Ethnography to Morphodynamics, Toronto University Press, Toronto, pp. 176-195.
- Gregory, C 2001, 'Exchange in Anthropology', in Neil J Smelser, Paul B Baltes (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp. 5039-5042pp.
- Gregory, C 2000, 'Gift-Giving in Melanesia[DELETE]', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 432-433pp.
- Gregory, C 2000, 'Value Switching and the Commodity free Zone', in Vandevelde, A. (ed.), Gifts and Interests, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 95-114.
- Gregory, C 2000, 'Anthropology, Economics and Political Economy', History of Political Economy, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 999-1008.
- Gregory, C 2000, 'Mackay, Donald Bruce (1933-1977)', in J Ritchie, D Langmore (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography (Vol 15), Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne Australia, pp. 234-235pp.
- Gregory, C 1999, 'Asian Economic Models for the Pacific? The Case of Microfinance', Pacific Economic Bulletin, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 81-92.
