Dr. Gregory Acciaioli

acciaiol@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

ph: 6488 2861

Dr Acciaioli teaches about Islam, particularly in archipelagic Southeast Asia and in China the units offered by UWA Anthropology and Sociology. He has also coordinated units including: anthropological linguistics, , gender, contemporary social theory, ethnographic film, environmental issues in Asia, peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia, the relations of history and anthropology, and psychological anthropology.

Dr Acciaioli joined the University of Western Australia in 1991, after having had short stints of a semester to a year teaching Anthropology and Linguistics at Vassar College, Columbia University, and the University of Arizona. He has punctuated his teaching career at UWA by stints as a visiting researcher at the Asia Research Centre (Murdoch University), the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (City University of Hong Kong), and the International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden University), and most recently as Associate Professor at the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore). He had also served as a tutor while working on his PhD thesis at the Australian National University, and earlier at Stanford University during his Masters Programme.

Dr Acciaioli 's doctoral research focussed on the patterning of Muslim Bugis migration to the Christian highlands of Central Sulawesi in Indonesia, as well as examining the subsequent patterns of ethnic interaction, especially with Lindu indigenes in their new settlement. He has published numerous articles in journals, newsletters, and edited collections based onhis doctoral research project, as well as based on subsequent research in Indonesia on such topics as transformation of syncretic rituals, social change due to rice intensification in South Sulawesi, social effects of livestock disease in eastern Indonesia, Indonesian government representations of and policies toward minority groups, conflict avoidance, and, most recently, the politics of conservation among indigenous and settler communities in Indonesia. His current research interests remain focussed on this last area of contestation; he is currently working on a general account of the rise of the indigenous peoples' movement in Indonesia. He has also recently begun a study of differing strategies of resistance to the spread of palm oil plantations by indigenous Dayaks and Muslim Banjarese migrants in Central Kalimantan. He has edited or co-edited special issues of Canberra Anthropology, Social Analysis, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde and the collections Authority and Enterprise among the Peoples of South Sulawesi (KITLV Press, Verhandelingen 188, 2000) and Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas: Case Studies from the Malay Archipelago (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007).