Dr Chris Gregory

Reader in Anthropology

Email: chris.gregory@anu.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 6125 3558

Past and Recent Research

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.

Recent and Main Publications

Gifts and Commodities. London: Academic Press, 1982

Observing the Economy. London: Routledge, ASA Research methods in Social Anthropology, No 3, 1989 (co-authored with John Altman)

Savage Money. London: Harwood, 1997

http://online.anu.edu.au/anthrop/ (An interactive web site based on Water of Words, a film by T. Ash, J. Fox and P. Asch; a collaborative project involving the film-makers and colleagues from ACAT)

Gregory, C. A. and H. Vaishnav, Editors and Translators. 2003. Lachmi Jagar: Gurumai Sukdai's Story of the Bastar Rice Goddess. Kondagaon: Kaksad Publications.

Courses Currently Taught

ANTH2033/ANTH6033 Religion and Society in India
ANTH2049/ANTH6049 Filming Cultures