
Dr Katie Glaskin
Key research
- Legal anthropology, applied anthropology, psychological anthropology, cognitive anthropology; native title and property relations, tradition and innovation, cosmology, ontology, dreams; Indigenous Australia, marine tenure
Major research interests
- Legal anthropology
- Applied anthropology
- Dreams, anthropology of
- Creativity and innovation
- Indigenous Australia
- Aboriginal land and marine tenure
- Native title
- Personhood
- Property
Qualifications
BA E.Cowan, PGDipA W.Aust., PhD A.N.U.
Publications
Books
Glaskin, K, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash & V. Burbank (eds) (2008) Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia. Farham: Ashgate.
Weiner, J.F. & K. Glaskin (eds) 2007. Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 3, Australian National University E-press.
Edited Journal (Special Issue)
Weiner, J.F. & K. Glaskin (eds) 2006. Custom: Indigenous Tradition and Law in the Twenty-First Century, TAPJA Special Issue 7(1).
Papers
Dousset, Laurent & Katie Glaskin 2009. L’anthropologie au tribunal. Les revendications foncières des Aborigènes en Australie. Genèses 74:74-93.
Glaskin, K. 2008. Dreams and memory: accessing metaphysical realms in the northwest Kimberley. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia Monograph Series, Special Issue 33:39-73.
Glaskin, K. 2008. A personal reflection on a saltwater man and the cumulative effects of loss. In K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash & V. Burbank (eds) Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia. Farnham: Ashgate. Pp.87-101.
Burbank, V., K. Glaskin, Y. Musharbash & M. Tonkinson 2008. Introduction: Indigenous ways of death in Australia. In K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson, Y. Musharbash & V. Burbank (eds) Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia. Farham: Ashgate. Pp.1-20.
Glaskin, K. 2007. Claim, culture and effect: property relations and the native title process. In B. Smith & F. Morphy (eds) 2007. The social effects of native title: recognition, translation, co-existence. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy and Research, Research Monograph No. 27, ANU E-Press. Pp.59-77.
Glaskin, K. 2007. Outstation incorporation as precursor to a prescribed body corporate. In Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives (eds) J.F. Weiner & K. Glaskin. Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 3, ANU E-Press. Pp. 199-221.
Weiner, J.F. & K. Glaskin 2007. Introduction. Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Indigenous Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives. Asia-Pacific Environment Monograph 3, Australian National University E-press. Pp.1-14.
Dousset, L. & K. Glaskin 2007. Western Desert and native title: how models become myths. Anthropological Forum 17(2): 127-148.
Glaskin, K. 2007. Manifesting the latent in native title litigation. Anthropological Forum 17(2): 165-168.
Glaskin, K. 2006. Death and the person: reflections on mortuary rituals, transformation and ontology in an Aboriginal society. Paideuma 52:107-126.
Weiner, J.F. & K.Glaskin 2006. Introduction: The (Re-) Invention of Indigenous Laws and Customs. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Special Issue 7(1):1-13
Glaskin, K. 2005. Innovation and ancestral revelation: the case of dreams. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11 (2): 297-314
Glaskin, K. 2004. An anthropological perspective on writing for the courts. Land, Rights, Law, Issues of Native Title, Volume 2, Issues Paper No. 29, September 2004. AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Canberra.
Glaskin, K. 2003. Native title and the 'bundle of rights' model: Implications for the recognition of Aboriginal relations to country. Anthropological Forum 13(1):67-88.
Glaskin, K. 2000. Limitations to the recognition and protection of Native Title offshore: the current 'accident of history'. Land, Rights, Law, Issues of Native Title, Issues Paper No.5, June 2000. AIATSIS Native Title Research Unit, Canberra.
Roles, responsibilities and expertise
Course Coordinator, Graduate Certificate/Diploma in Applied Anthropology (Native Title & Cultural Heritage)
Future research
-More on creativity, memory and dreams
-Human-humanoid robot relations
Memberships
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute
Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society
Member, European Society for Oceanists
Member, Association of Social Anthropologists of Oceania
Teaching
-Legal Anthropology
-Contemporary Indigenous Australia: Anthropological Perspectives
-Native Title Anthropology
-Cultural Heritage Anthropology
New and noteworthy
Current projects
Current research interests include: 1) the relationship between dreams, art, creativity and innovation; 2) indigenous peoples in Japan and India
Research profile