Professor Howard Morphy
Areas of expertise
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Religion And Society 220405
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts 190401
- Art History 190102
- Museum Studies 210204
- Aesthetics 220301
- Studies Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Society 169902
- Social And Cultural Anthropology 160104
- Visual Cultures 190104
- Biography 210304
- Art Theory 190103
- Information And Computing Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified 089999
Research interests
In his career he has moved between Museums and Universities: researching and curating collections, and organising exhibitions. He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop of Film. He has published widely in the anthropology of art, aesthetics, performance, museum anthropology, Aboriginal social organization, the history of anthropology, visual anthropology and religion. Howard's main fieldwork has been with the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land (Yirrkala) beginning in 1974-76, with subsequent research visits continuing to the present. He has also worked among the Ngalakan people of the Roper Valley, in 1980-81 and again in 1998. In 1983 he spent 6 months in Darwin researching the public response to Aboriginal art. In 1988 he spent two months in the field in Central Arnhem Land (at Ramingining and Maningrida). From 2001-2005 directed a joint archaeological anthropological research project on resource use and social organisation in Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia. The team comprised two archaeologists, two anthropologists a marine ecologist and a linguist. As a result of that he has worked with others to develop methodologies for the mapping of cultural data. In recent years the focus of his researched has moved to museum collections and the development of the concept of the relational museum. His current research projects include: 1) collaborative research with the British Museum, the National Museum of Australia and a number of Indigenous communites to develop mechanisms for linking source communities to distributed collections 2) with Frances Morphy and Bree Blakeman mapping and researching the relationship between people's names and place names in Yolngu society.
Biography
Howard Morphy (BSc, MPhil London, PhD ANU, FASSA, FAHA, CIHA) is a distinguished Professor of Anthropology and was previously the founding Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University. Prior to returning to the Australian National University in 1997, he held the chair in Anthropology at University College London. Before that he spent ten years as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. He is an anthropologist of art and visual anthropologist having co- edited two of the main source books in the respective fields The Anthropology of Art: a Reader (2006, Blackwell's, with Morgan Perkins) and Rethinking Visual Anthropology (1997, Yale University Press, with Marcus Banks). He has written extensively on Australian Aboriginal art with a monograph of Yolngu Art, Ancestral Connections (Chicago 1991), a general survey Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998) and most recently Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories (Berg, 2007). He has also produced a pioneering multimedia biography The Art of Narritjin Maymuru with Pip Deveson and Katie Hayne (ANU epress 2005). He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop of Film Australia and has curated many exhibitions including Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia. He is one of the curatorial team working on the exhibition Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation opening at the Brtish Museum April 23, 2015. With Frances Morphy he helped prepare the Blue Mud Bay Native Title Claim which as a result of the 2008 High Court judgement recognised Indigenous ownership of the waters over the intertidal zone under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. His involvement in e-research and in the development of museum exhibitions reflects his determination to make humanities research as accessible as possible to wider publics and to close the distance between the research process and research outcomes. In 2008 he was one of the organising committee of the major CIHA conference in Melbourne Crossing Cultures: conflict, migration, convergence. He is past-president of the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) of the American Anthropological Association. In 2013 he was awarded the Huxley Memorial medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in 2017 the Distiguished Service Award of the CMA..
Researcher's projects
Howard is completing the written version of his biography of the Yolngu artist Narritjin Maymuru, which has been produced in multimedia form. He continues to work in various areas of applied anthropology, in particular in relation to Indigenous rights in cultural property and land, and regional economic development through educational, cultural and environmental tourism. In theoretical terms Howard's current focus is on complexity theory and developing the concept of relative autonomy.
Howard is currently working on a number of projects that involve close partnerships with museums and Yolngu community organisations in particular Buku Larrngay Mulka Art Centre, Yirrkala. In collaboration with the South Australian Museum, the Melbourne Museum, the Northern Territory Library and the Kerry Stokes Collection we have completed the development of a virtual archive of Spencer and Gillen's Central Australian collections http://spencerandgillen.net/
A project funded by an ARC linkage grant is underway with the National Museum of Australia and the British Museum as industry partners. The project involves preparatory research for exhibitions in London and Canberra of objects from the British Museum's Aboriginal collections. In addition to liaison with the respective communities we are working with a number of Indigenous curators artist on various aspects of the project. In collaboration with Diana James he is undertaking a research project in central Australia on the cultural dimensions of the Seven Sisters 'Songlines'.
He continues to work with Louise Hamby and Pip Deveson on the development of a virtual archive of Yolngu collections in order to reconstruct the material record as a whole by bringing together film, photography, archival data and material culture objects. Linked to these various projects we have developed a very innovative comprehensive data-base OCCAMS, and use film as an integral part of our research methods.
A further project involves a collaboration with David Throsby of Macquarie University to look into ways in which Indigenous Australian's can be involved in cultural and environmental tourism on their own terms in the context of regional economies.
Past student projects
Recently completed students projects include the following:
- An Ethnomusicological Study of Chanted Tales in highland Papua New Guinea
- Consuming the Devil's Idols: The (Re) Presenting of Tibetan Art in the U.S.
- Essential challenges: The (Re-) Making of the Body in Women's Boxing
- Indigenous knowledge of Yuin communities and science education
- Masked Jumba: Masquerade in the Kimberleys
- Metamorphosis of situatedness: the confrontation between Aboriginal place and colonialist space in the Roper River
- Nane Narduk Kunkodjgurlu Namarnborn 'This is My Idea': Innovation and Creativity in Contemporary Rembarrnga Sculpture from the Maningrida Region
- Peintpientbat: Indigenous visual art practice from the Roper Region, South East Arnhem Land
- Witnessing the Western Desert: Historical and Anthropological investigations into the 1950's and 1960's documentary films featuring people of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands
Publications
- Sculthorpe, G, Nugent, M & Morphy, H, eds, 2021, Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums, British Museum Press, London.
- Sculthorpe, G, Nugent, M & Morphy, H 2021, 'Introduction', in Sculthorpe, G, Nugent, M, Morphy, H. (ed.), Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums, British Museum Press, London, pp. 16-23.
- Morphy, H 2020, Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols, Routledge, Abingdon.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2020, ''Locating "mind" (and "soul") cross-culturally', in Helen Bromhead, Zhengdao Ye (ed.), Meaning, Life and Culture: In conversation with Anna Wierzbicka, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 249-271.
- Morphy, F, Morphy, H, Faulkner, P et al. 2020, 'Toponyms from 3000 years ago? Implications for the history and structure of the Yolngu social formation in north-east Arnhem Land', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 153-67..
- Morphy, H, Morphy, F & G. Iseger-Pilkington, G 2019, 'The visual arts', in Bill Arthur & Frances Morphy (ed.), Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia (Second Edition), Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, Sydney, pp. 110-123.
- Morphy, H 2017, 'Encounters at the National Museum of Australia: a moment in an ongoing process of engagement', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 875-878.
- Morphy, H 2017, 'Trajectories and themes in the art of Arnhem Land', in P Slauve (ed.), Territoire Du Reve - Art Aborigene Contemporain, ARTEOS, Paris, France, pp. 167-203.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2017, 'Relative Autonomy, Sociocultural Trajectories and the Emergence of Something New', Insights, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1-11pp.
- Morphy, H 2017, Collections, Connections, Relationships.
- Morphy, H & Morphy, F 2016, 'Thwarted aspirations: The political economy of a Yolngu outstation, 1972 to the present', in Nicolas Peterson, Fred Myers (ed.), Experiments in Self-Determination : Histories of the outstation movement in Australia, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 301-321.
- Morphy, H 2016, 'Extended lives in global spaces: The anthropology of Yolngu pre-burial ceremonies', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 22, pp. 332-355.
- Morphy, H 2015, 'Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation - A Personal Reflection', Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 7-17.
- Morphy, H 2015, 'Open Access Versus the Culture of Protocols', in Raymond A Silverman (ed.), Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 90-104.
- Morphy, H 2015, 'The Displaced Local : Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums' Ethnographic Collections', in Kylie Message and Andrea Witcomb (ed.), The International Handbooks of Museum Studies: Museum Theory, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 365-387.
- Sculthorpe, G, Carty, J, Morphy, H, Nugent, M. et al, (2015) The BP exhibition Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation, The British Museum Press, London.
- Morphy, H 2013, 'Meaningful Form: the changing boundaries between anthropology and art history', in G. Ulrich Grossmann, Petra Krutisch (ed.), CIHA2012 Nuremberg: The Challenge of the Object / The challenge of the object., Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Germany, pp. 1500-1504.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2013, 'Anthropological theory and government policy in Australia's Northern Territory: The hegemony of the "mainstream"', American Anthropologist, vol. 115, no. 2, pp. 174-187.
- Morphy, H 2013, 'Art as Action: The Yolngu', in Shore, C. and Trnka, S. (ed.), Up close and personal: on peripheral perspectives and the production of anthropological knowledge, Berghahn Books, United States, pp. 125-139.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2013, 'Relative autonomy revisited: Reply to Francesca Merlan', American Anthropologist, vol. 115, no. 4, pp. 639-641.
- Morphy, H 2013, 'Spencer at Oenpelli', in Michelle Hetherington (ed.), Glorious Days Australia 1913, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, pp. 159-168.
- Morphy, H 2012, 'Recursive and Iterative Processes in Australian Rock Art: An Anthropological Perspective', in Jo McDonald and Peter Veth (ed.), A companion to rock art, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester UK, pp. 294-305.
- Morphy, H 2012, The Anthropologist's Point of View: Eight Ethnographers Discuss Their Works and Lives.
- Morphy, H 2012, 'Reading Spencer and Gillen', Sophia, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 545-560.
- Morphy, H & Morphy, F 2012, 'New cases, new technologies: applying anthropological research in changing times', in Mark Finnane and Ian Donaldson (ed.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, UWA Publishing, Perth Australia, pp. 288-300.
- Morphy, H 2012, 'Becoming a Visual Anthropologist', Humanities Research, vol. XVIII, no. 1, pp. 5-20.
- Morphy, H 2012, 'The Recognition of Aboriginal Art and the Building of Collections', in Sandra Dudley (ed.), Narrating Objects, collectiong stories: Essays in honour of Professor Susan M. Pearce, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 271-282.
- Morphy, H 2012, 'Aboriginal Australian Art in America', in Stephen Gilchrist (ed.), Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art at the Hood Museum of Art, University Press of New England, Hanover USA, pp. 19-30pp.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2012, 'Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals: Yolngu mortuary rituals in an epoch of constant change', in S. Howell and A. Talle (ed.), Returns to the Field: Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology, Indiana University Press, Bloomington Indiana, pp. 49-72.
- Morphy, H 2011, ''Not Just Pretty Pictures': Relative Autonomy and the Articulations of Yolngu Art in its Contexts', in V. Strang and M. Busse (ed.), Ownership and Appropriation, Berg Publishers, Oxford, pp. 261-286.
- Morphy, H 2011, 'Coming to Terms with Aboriginal Art in the 1960's', in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Art, Cambridge University Press, Australia, pp. 153-167.
- Morphy, H 2011, 'Moving the body painting into the art gallery - knowing about and appreciating works of Aboriginal art', Journal of Art Historiography, vol. 4, pp. 2-20.
- Morphy, H 2011, 'Larrakitj - Death and the Celebration of Life', in Anne Marie Brody (ed.), Kerry Stokes Collection, Australian Capital Equity, Australia, pp. 27-35.
- Morphy, H 2011, Ancestral Connections.
- Morphy, H, Frederick, U & Eve, P 2010, We Stand on the Footprints of the Old People. DVD
- Morphy, H 2010, 'The Recognition of Aboriginal Art and the Building of Collections', in Roberta Colombo Dougoud & Barbara Muller (ed.), Dream Traces: Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings, Infolio Editions, Gollion, pp. 155-167.
- Morphy, H 2010, 'Art as Action, Art as Evidence', in Dan Hicks & Mary C. Beaudry (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 265-290.
- Morphy, H 2010, 'Afterword', in Sandra H. Dudley (ed.), Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, pp. 275-285.
- Morphy, H 2010, 'Closing the Distance, Maintaining the Difference: The Art of Larrakitj', in David Elliott (ed.), The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Thames and Hudson, Sydney, pp. 94-98.
- Morphy, H 2010, 'Material Culture', in Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (2nd ed), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 453-456pp.
- Morphy, H 2010, 'Museums', in Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (2nd ed), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 487-488pp.
- Morphy, H 2010, 'Art', in Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (2nd ed), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 65-67pp.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2009, 'The Blue Mud Bay Case: Refractions through saltwater country', Dialogue (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 15-25.
- Morphy, H 2009, 'Re-reading Ronald Berndt: Exploring the Depths of his Yolngu Ethnography', Anthropological Forum, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 73-97.
- Morphy, H 2009, 'Not Just Images but Art', in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne Australia, pp. 60-62.
- Morphy, H 2009, 'Acting in a community: Art and social cohesion in Indigenous Australia', Humanities Research, vol. XV, no. 2, pp. 115-131.
- Morphy, H 2009, 'Art as a Mode of Action: Some Problems with Gell's Art and Agency', Journal of Material Culture, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 5-27.
- Morphy, H 2009, ''It's all got a meaning...its own story': Art from Yirrkala in the Australian National University Collection', in Claudette Chubb & Nancy Sever (ed.), Indigenous Art at the Australian National University, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Melbourne, pp. 105-124.
- Morphy, H 2009, 'Art theory and art discourse across cultures: the Yolngu and Kunwinjku compared', in Claus Volkenandt & Christian Kaufmann (ed.), Between Indigenous Australia and Europe: John Mawurndjul: Art Histories in Context, Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, Berlin, pp. 75-102.
- Morphy, H & Deveson, P 2009, Yilpara Funeral: A Film in Four Parts.
- Morphy, H & Hetherington, M, eds, 2009, Discovering Cook's Collections, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, Australia.
- Morphy, H 2009, 'Found in Translation', in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne Australia, pp. 18-20.
- Morphy, F & Morphy, H 2008, 'Afterword: Demography and destiny', in K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash and V. Burbank (ed.), Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia, Routledge, London, pp. 209-214.
- Morphy, H 2008, 'The Light of Wangarr', in Elizabeth Edwards & Kaushik Bhaumik (ed.), Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader, Berg Publishers, New York, pp. 59-61.
- Morphy, H 2008, ''Joyous maggots': The symbolism of Yolngu mortuary rituals', in M. Hinkson and J. Beckett (ed.), An Appreciation of Difference: W.E.H. Stanner and Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp. 137-150.
- Morphy, H 2008, 'Yalangbara: the paintings', in Margie West (ed.), Yalangbara: Art of the Djang'kawu, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, pp. 64-76.
- Deveson, P, Hayne, K, Morphy, H et al. 2008, Living Knowledge.
- Morphy, H & Deveson, P 2008, In Gentle Hands.
- Morphy, H 2007, 'Anthropological Theory and the Multiple Determinacy of the Present', in David Parkin and Stanley Ulijaszek (ed.), Holistic Anthropology: Energence and Convergence, Berghahn Books, United States, pp. 148-181.
- Morphy, H 2007, 'Expressing Indentity: Creativity in Yolngu Art', in Lynne Seear and Julie Ewington (ed.), Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian art 1966-2006 from the Queensland Art Gallery collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia, pp. 382-389.
- Morphy, H 2007, 'Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: The Aesthetics of Eastern Arnhem Land Art', in H. Perkins and M. West (ed.), One Sun, One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 73-77.
- Morphy, H 2007, Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories, Berg Publishers, Oxford UK.
- Morphy, H 2007, 'The Aesthetics of Communication and the Communication of Cultural Aesthetics: A Perspective of Ian Dunlop's Films of Aboriginal Australia', in Beate Engelbrecht (ed.), Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 321-340.
- Morphy, H & Morphy, F 2006, 'Tasting the waters: Discriminating identities in the waters of Blue Mud Bay', Journal of Material Culture, vol. 11, no. 1/2, pp. 67-85.
- Morphy, H 2006, 'The Practice of an Expert: Anthropology in Native Title', Anthropological Forum, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 135-51.
- Morphy, H 2006, 'Sites of Persuasion: Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia', in Ivan Karp et al (ed.), Museum frictions: public cultures/global transformations, Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 469-99.
- Morphy, H & Perkins, M 2006, 'The Anthropology of Art: A Reflection on its History and Contemporary Practice', in H. Morphy, M. Perkins (ed.), The Anthropology of Art: A Reader, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Malden, USA, pp. 1-32.
- Morphy, H 2006, 'Impossible to ignore: Imants Tillers' response to Aboriginal art', in Deborah Hart (ed.), Imants Tillers: one world many visions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Australia, pp. 85-94.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Forum: Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist: not a review in the struict sense of the term', Journal of Pacific History, vol. XL, no. 2, pp. 237-254.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'The Diversity of Tradition', in Therese Kenyon (ed.), Luminous: Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, pp. 4-6.
- Morphy, H, Dussart, F & Charlesworth, M, eds, 2005, Aboriginal Religions in Australia, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Style and Meaning: Abelam art through Yolgnu eyes', Res: anthropology and aesthetics, vol. Res 47, no. Spring 2005, pp. 209-230.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Spencer and Gillens Photography and the Evaluation of Anthropological Method', in Philip Batty, Lindy Allen, John Morton (ed.), The Photographs of Baldwin Spencer (revised edition), Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, pp. 74-77.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Yolgnu Art and the Creativity of the Inside', in Max Charlesworth, Francoise Dussart & Howard Morphy (ed.), Aboriginal Religions in Australia: An Anthology of Recent Writings, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK, pp. 159-170.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Seeing Indigenous Australian Art', in Mariet Westermann (ed.), Anthropologies of Art, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, pp. 124-142.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'The Aesthetics of Communication and the Communication of Cultural Aesthetics: A Perspective on Ian Dunlops Films of Aboriginal Australia', Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 21, no. 1&2, pp. 63-79.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Mutual Conversion? the Methodist Church and the Yolgnu, with particular reference to Yirrkala', Humanities Research, vol. XII, no. 1, pp. 41-54.
- Morphy, H 2005, 'Indigenous Art as Economy', in Diane Austin-Broos, Gaynor Macdonald (ed.), Culture, Economy and Governance in Aboriginal Australia, University of Sydney Press, Sydney, pp. 19-28.
- Morphy, H 2004, 'Yingapungapu - rzezba ziemna jako malowidto na korz', in Monika Bakke (ed.), Estetyka Aborygenow, Universitas Aiictorium Editoriimoue societas, Krakow, pp. 151-164.
- Morphy, H 2004, 'O przedstawianiu przodkow', in Monika Bakke (ed.), Estetyka Aborygenow, Universitas Aiictorium Editoriimoue societas, Krakow, pp. 21-32.
- Morphy, H 2004, 'Ogladajac sztuke aborygenska w galerii', in Monika Bakke (ed.), Estetyka Aborygenow, Universitas Aiictorium Editoriimoue societas, Krakow, pp. 151-164.
- Morphy, H & Lendon, N, eds, 2003, Synergies, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
- Morphy, H 2003, 'Aboriginal Art (Japanese Translation)'.
- Morphy, H 2003, 'Imants Tillers and the Dislocation of the Avant-Garde', in Howard Morphy and Nigel Lendon (ed.), Synergies, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, pp. 43-50pp.
- Morphy, H 2003, 'Some Concluding Anthropological Reflections', in W.S.F. Pickering (ed.), On Prayer, Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 139-154.
- Morphy, H, Lendon, N, Barme, G et al 2003, 'Synergies'.
- Morphy, H, Lendon, N, Bull, G et al 2003, 'abstractions'.
- Morphy, H 2002, 'Thomson, Donald Finlay Fergusson (1901 - 1970)', Australian Dictionary of Biography (Online), vol. 16, pp. 385-387.
- Morphy, H & Morphy, F 2002, 'The Spirit of the Plains Kangaroo', in Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths (ed.), Words for Country: landscape and language in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 102-123.
- Morphy, H 2002, 'Encountering Aborigines', in Sarah Thomas (ed.), The Encounter, 1802: art of the Flinders and Baudin voyages, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, p. 228.
- Morphy, H 2002, 'Dundiwuy Wanambi', in Anna Gray (ed.), Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, p. 398.
- Morphy, H 2002, 'Narritjin Maymuru', in Anna Gray (ed.), Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, p. 319.
- Morphy, H 2001, 'Saltwater Country - Paintings from Yirrkala', Art and Australia, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 420-427.
- Morphy, H 2001, 'Seeing Aboriginal Art in the Gallery', Humanities Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37-50.
- Morphy, H 2001, 'Collecting Knowledge, Finding Art', in Frances Morphy (ed.), Outside In: Research Engagements with Arnhem Land Art, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, pp. 22-30.
- Beckett, J, Healy, C, Mackinolty, C et al 2000, 'Colonial Continuities and Discontinuities', in Kleinert, S.; Neale, M. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 81-102.
- Flint, K & Morphy, H 2000, 'Introduction', in Morphy, H. ; Flint, K. (ed.), Culture, Landscape and the Environment: The Linacre Lectures, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-14.
- Morphy, H, Keen, I, Mundine, D et al 2000, 'Arnhem Land', in Kleinert, S.; Neale, M. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 129-154.
- Morphy, H 2000, 'Elite art for cultural elites: adding value to Indigenous arts', in Ward, G.; Smith, C. (ed.), Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, N.S.W., pp. 129-143.
- Morphy, H, Hamilton, A, Dussart, F et al 2000, 'Kinship and Gender', in Kleinert, S.; Neale, M. (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 60-80.
- Morphy, H 1999, 'Traditional and Modern Visual Art', in <> (ed.), <>, pp. 441-448pp.
- Morphy, H & Mulvaney, J 1999, 'Andree Rosenfeld; an Appreciation', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 93-94.
- Morphy, H 1999, 'Encoding the Dreaming: a theoretical framework for the analysis of representational processes in Australian Aboriginal Art', Australian Archaeology, vol. 49, no. December, pp. 13-22.
- Morphy, H 1999, 'Life through art: Religion and society in eastern Arnhem Land', in Morphy, H.S; Smith Boles, M. (ed.), Art from the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, pp. 57-84.
- Morphy, H 1999, 'Manggalili art and the Promised Land', in Taylor, L. (ed.), Painting the Land Story, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, pp. 53-74.
- Morphy, H 1999, 'Australian Aboriginal Concepts of Time', in Lippincott, K. (ed.), The Story of Time, Merrell Holberton, London, pp. 264-268.
- Morphy, H & Smith-Boles, M, eds, 1999, Art from the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville.
- Morphy, H 1999, 'From hunting to mining: The history of human-environmental relations in eastern Arnhem Land', in Slack, P. (ed.), Environments and Historical Change, The Linacre Lectures 1998, British Academy and Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 168-189.
- Morphy, H 1996, 'Empiricism to Metaphysics: In Defence of the Concept of the Dreamtime' in T Bonyhady & T Griffiths (eds), Prehistory to Politics: John Mulvaney, the Humanities and the Public Intellectual, Melbourne University Press, pp 163 - 189.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Placenames and Personal Names in Yolngu Society and Country Through Time (Primary Investigator)
- The Relational Museum and its Objects (Primary Investigator)
- Engaging the global legacy and impact of the Aboriginal Artists Agency (Primary Investigator)
- Clouded and mobile delivery platforms for early collection of Yolngu cultural heritage in Arnhem Land, Australia (Secondary Investigator)
- The value of Aboriginal cultural heritage: cultural production and regional economies in Eastern Arnhem Land and the Western Desert (Primary Investigator)
- Alive with the Dreaming! Songlines of the Western Desert (Primary Investigator)
- Engaging Objects: Indigenous communities, museum collections and the representation of Indigenous histories (Primary Investigator)
- Reconstructing the Spencer and Gillen Collection: Museums, Indigenous Perspectives and the Production of Cultural Knowledge (Primary Investigator)
- Contexts of Collection: a dialogic approach to understanding the making of the material record of Yolngu cultures (Primary Investigator)
- The recognition, interpretation and management of significant rock art and related dreaming (Jukurrpa) sites on the Canning Stock Route, Western Australia (Primary Investigator)
- Provision of services for community consultation, instructions and advice regarding the repatriation of secret sacred/objects and human remains from North East Arnham Land (Primary Investigator)
- Migration Memoires: An Analysis of Representations of Australian Migration Histories (Primary Investigator)