The University of Western Australia

Professor Victoria Burbank

Professor
Anthropology and Sociology

Contact details

Address

Anthropology and Sociology
The University of Western Australia (M255)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2852

Fax

6488 1062

Email

victoria.burbank@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BA Mass., PhD Rutgers

Key research

Culture, Context and Risk: Sociocultural Influences on the Sexual Health of Indigenous Young People.

K. Senior, R. Chenhall, M. Pitts, S. Saggers, V. Burbank, and T. Nagel, Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 2009. The research team on this project aims to better understand the sociocultural context in which adolescents make, or do not make, decisions about their sexuality. We also aim to provide critical background material to our many partner organizations for the development of programs to support Indigenous youth in this very important aspect of their lives.

Publications

Burbank, V. 2011 An Ethnography of Stress: The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
http://us.macmillan.com/anethnographyofstress

Burbank V., Glaskin K., Musharbash Y. and M. Tonkinson 2008 Introduction: Indigenous ways of death in Australia. In Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia, eds. K. Glaskin, Y. Musharbash, M. Tonkinson and V. Burbank, Aldershot, Ashgate Press

Burbank V. 2006 From Bedtime to On Time: Why Some Aboriginal People Don’t Especially Like Participating in Western Institutions. 2006 Anthropological Forum 16(1):3-20.

Chisholm J., Burbank V., Coal D. and F. Gemmiti, 2005 Early Stress: Perspectives from Developmental Evolutionary Ecology. In Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development, eds. B. Ellis and D. Bjorklund. Pp.76-107. New York: Guilford Publications.

Chisholm J. and V. Burbank 2001 Evolution and Inequality. International Journal of Epidemiology 30:206-211.

Burbank V. 2000 'The Lust to Kill' and the Arnhem Land Sorcerer: An Exercise in Integrative Anthropology. Ethos 28:410-444.

Research profile

Research profile and publications