Abby Mcleod on Simbu

by Alex

Here’s a researcher whose working on the state, violence, and the highlands in Papua New Guinea. Abby McLeod comes highly recommended — her thesis (you can read the abstract) looks very interesting indeed, as does the article she wrote with Phil Gibbs and Nicole Haley (both also extremely good eggs). My inability to get PDFs of Australian dissertations has driven me nuts for MONTHS now. I believe it is easier for me to get theses from France than it is Australia. This makes me cry on the inside. On the other hand, since I haven’t had the time to read Abby’s earlier paper with James “Jimmy” Weiner and Charles Yala despite the fact that I printed it up off of the ANU’s eprint repository (yeah eprint repository!!!) like TWO YEARS AGO I suppose that shifting the already frighteningly “printed material to empty space” ratio of my apartment with Yet Another Highlands Dissertation is perhaps not the best course of action anyway.