John Gray

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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Education

Date Institution name Country Title
Bucknell University United States Bachelor of Arts
Northwestern University United States Master of Arts
University of Hawaii at Manoa United States PhD

Institution name	Country	Title
Bucknell University	United States	Bachelor of Arts
Northwestern University	United States	Master of Arts
University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States	PhD

Journals

Year	Citation
2015	Gray, J. (2015). Representations of unity and diversity of women in Panchayat and Post-Panchayat Nepal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38(2), 200-215. DOI
2014	Gray, J. (2014). Hefting onto place: intersecting lives of humans and sheep on Scottish hills landscape. Anthrozoos, 27(2), 219-234. DOI
2011	Gray, J. (2011). Building a house in Nepal: Auspiciousness as a practice of emplacement. Social Analysis, 55(1), 73-93. DOI Scopus5
2011	Gray, J. (2011). Architecture and architechnē: building and revealing in high-caste Nepalese houses. South Asia, 34(1), 89-112. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2010	Gray, J. (2010). Local agricultural shows in the Scottish Borders. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16(2), 347-371. DOI Scopus6 WoS4
2009	Gray, J. (2009). The anthropology of tacit knowledge in the domestic mandala: a case study of chhetris in the Kathmandu Valley. Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology, 11, 255-278. DOI
2009	Gray, J. (2009). Marriage ritual in Nepal: Space, performance and tacit knowledge. Journal of Ritual Studies, 23(1), 45-60.
2009	Gray, J. (2009). Where truth happens: The Nepali house as Mandala. Anthropologica, 51(1), 195-208. Scopus3
2003	Gray, J. (2003). A rural sense of place: intimate experience in planning a countryside for life. Planning Theory & Practice, 4(1), 93-96. DOI
2001	Gray, J. (2001). Lawlessness on the frontier: The Anglo-Scottish borderlands in the fourteenth to sixteenth century. History and Anthropology, 12(4), 381-408. DOI Scopus8
2000	Gray, J. (2000). Rural space in Scotland: from rural fundamentalism to rural development. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 9(1), 53-80.
2000	Gray, J. (2000). The common agricultural policy and the re-invention of the rural in the European Community. Sociologia Ruralis, 40(1), 30-52. DOI Scopus137 WoS93
1999	Gray, J. (1999). Open spaces and dwelling places: being at home on hill farms in the Scottish borders. American Ethnologist, 26(2), 440-460. DOI Scopus66 WoS57
1998	Gray, J. (1998). Family Farms in the Scottish Borders: A Practical Definition by Hill Sheep Farmers. Journal of Rural Studies, 14(3), 341-356. DOI Scopus123 WoS108
1996	Gray, J. (1996). Irony and paradox in the Scottish Border Lands: hill sheep farms and their relations with the European Union and the United Kingdom. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 7(3), 191-217. DOI
1996	Gray, J. (1996). Cultivating Farm Life on the Borders: Scottish Hill Sheep Farms and the European Community. Sociologia Ruralls: Journal of the European Society for Rural Sociology, 36(1), 27-50. DOI Scopus35 WoS30
1993	Gray, J. N. (1993). <i>Dharma</i>and domestic practice in Nepal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 16(1), 73-88. DOI
1991	Gray, J. N. (1991). Marriage and the constitution of hierarchy and gender in Bahun-Chetri households.. Contributions to Nepalese Studies, 18(2), 53-82.
1988	Gray, J. N. (1988). Work, technology and the experience of class relations on Scottish hill sheep farms. Ethnos: journal of anthropology, 53(1-2), 78-103.
1987	Gray, J. N. (1987). Bayu Utarnu: Ghost Exorcism and Sacrifice in Nepal. Ethnology: an international journal of cultural and social anthropology, 26, 179-201.
1984	Gray, J. N. (1984). Lamb Auctions on the Borders. European Journal of Sociology, 25(1), 54-82.
1983	Gray, J. N. (1983). Domestic Enterprise and Social Relations in a Nepalese Village. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 17(2), 254-274.
1980	Gray, J. N. (1980). Hypergamy, kinship and caste among the Chettris of Nepal. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 14(1), 1-33. DOI
1979	Gray, J. N. (1979). Medical Materialism and Cultural Symbols. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 17(5), 2-9.
1979	Gray, J. N. (1979). Keep the Hom Fires Burning: Sacrifice in Nepal. Social Analysis: international journal of cultural and social practice, 1(1), 81-102.

Books

Year	Citation
2006	Gray, J. (2006). Domestic Mandala: Architecture of Lifeworlds in Nepal. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2000	Gray, J. (2000). At Home in the Hills: Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders. 604 West 115th St, New York, NY 10025: Berghahn Books.
1995	Gray, J. (1995). The Householder's World: purity, power and dominance in a Nepali village. Oxford University Press.
1989	Gray, J. N., & Mearns, D. J. (Eds.) (1989). Society from the inside out: anthropological perspectives on the South Asian household.. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Book Chapters

Year	Citation
2012	Gray, J. (2012). Caste and ethnicity: socio-logics and implications for a federal state of Nepal. In C. Mishra, & O. Gurung (Eds.), Ethnicity and Federalisation in Nepal (1 ed., pp. 124-138). Nepal: Tribhuvan University.
2012	Gray, J. (2012). Webs of significance: an ethnographer's account of anthropology at the University of Adelaide from 1973 to 2011. In N. Harvey, J. Fornasiero, G. McCarthy, C. Macintyre, & C. Crossin (Eds.), A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012: Celebrating 125 Years of the Faculty of Arts (1 ed., pp. 23-49). Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
2010	Gray, J. (2010). Less Favoured Areas in the European Union: Pretty and [Un]Economic Landscapes in the Scottish Borders. In P. Stewart (Ed.), Landscape, Heritage, and Conservation Farming Issues in the European Union (pp. 45-73). Durham, North Carolina, USA: Carolina Academic Press.
2009	Gray, J. (2009). Rurality and rural space: the 'policy effect' of the Common Agricultural Policy in the Borders of Scotland. In F. Merlan, & D. Raftery (Eds.), Tracking Rural Change: Community, Policy and Technology in Australia, New Zealand and Europe (pp. 15-40). Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
2003	Gray, J. (2003). Open spaces and dwelling places: being at home on hill farms in the Scottish Borders. In S. Low, & D. Lawrence-Zuniga (Eds.), The anthropology of space and place locating culture (pp. 224-244). United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishers Inc.
2003	Gray, J. (2003). Iconic images: landscape and history in the local poetry of the Scottish Borders. In P. Stewart, & A. Strathern (Eds.), Landscape, memory and history: Anthropological perspectives (pp. 16-46). London; Sterling, VA: Pluto Press.
2002	Gray, J. (2002). Community as place-making: Ram auctions in the Scottish borderland. In Vered Amit (Ed.), Realizing community - Concepts, social relationships and sentiments (pp. 38-59). 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE: Routledge. WoS16
1996	Gray, J. (1996). The Parbatiya Household in the Kathmandu Valley: Context for continuity and change. In Change and Continuity: Studies in the Nepalese Culture of the Kathmandu Valley (pp. 25-38). CESMEO, Edizioni Dell'orso.
1994	Gray, J. (1994). Driving in a soft city: Trafficking in images of identity and power on the roads of Kathmandu. In Anthropology of Nepal: People, Problems and Processes (pp. 147-159). Mandala Book Point.
1989	Gray, J. N. (1989). The household in Nepal: social and cultural crucible of society.. In J. N. Gray, & D. J. Mearns (Eds.), Society from the inside out: anthropological perspectives on the South Asian household. (pp. 140-161). New Delhi: Sage Publications.
1989	Gray, J. N., & Mearns, D. J. (1989). Introduction: Household and domestic groups: society from the inside-out. In J. N. Gray, & D. J. Mearns (Eds.), Society from the inside out: anthropological perspectives on the South Asian household. (pp. 13-35). New Delhi: Sage Publications.
1982	Gray, J. N. (1982). Chetri women in domestic groups and rituals. In M. Allen, & S. N. Mukherjee (Eds.), Women in India and Nepal. (Vol. 8, pp. 211-241). Canberra: ANU Press.
1975	Gray, J. N. (1975). Bengal and Britain: culture contact and the re-interpretation of Hinduism in 19th century Bengal.. In R. V. M. Baumer (Ed.), Aspects of Bengali Society and History (Vol. 12, pp. 99-131). Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2019 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Time, Personhood and Sacrifice in the Ritual Pragmatics and Cosmological Dynamics of a Parbatiya Village, Nepal.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Glen Clarke Michalski
2017 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Modern Dharma: The Moral Worlds of Newar Middle-Class Families in Bhaktapur, Nepal	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Paola Tine
2016 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Neoliberalism, Rights, and the Vernacularisation of Social Policy in Nepal	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Alexia Jane Adhikari
2014 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	At Home in a Nursing Home: On Movement and Care	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Angela Rong Yang Zhang
2013 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Microfinance behind closed doors: women and agency in rural Nepal	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Concetta Scarfiello
2012 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	"You Can't be a Feminist and be a Daughter-In-Law": Negotiations of Honour and Womanhood in Urban Nepal	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Sarah Faye Eliza Homan
2012 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	The Social Lives of Superfoods	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Jessica Loyer
2012 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	A Critical Evaluation of the Relationship between Microcredit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Bogra, Bangladesh	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Sultan Salah Uddin
2012 - 2015	Co-Supervisor	Fermenting place: wine production and terroir in McLaren Vale, South Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Bill Skinner
2011 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	A Recipe for Identity: Food and Culture in Oaxaca, Mexico.	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Emma Thrussell
2010 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Institutions and Values: Climate Change Adaptation Mainstreaming Implementation in Kiribati	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Miss Felicity Jane Prance
2010 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Landscapes of Participation and Tradition: The Australian Folk Festival as Process and Public Event	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Rachel Massey
2009 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	In the Name of 'Empowerment': Women and Development in Urban Nepal	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Margaret Becker
2005 - 2005	Principal Supervisor	"Coming Into Being" Metaphors of Self and Becoming in Carnival, on the Aegean Island of Skyros	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Agapi Amanatidis
2004 - 2013	Principal Supervisor	Exile and Migration of Pontic Greeks The Experience of Loss as Presence of Absence	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Valerie Liddle
2003 - 2008	Principal Supervisor	Coca Communications: Tales from the Bolivian Coca Field	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Nadia Butler
2002 - 2008	Principal Supervisor	Negotiating Existence: Asylum Seekers in East Anglia, UK	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Sophia Rainbird
1997 - 2002	Co-Supervisor	Re-Engineering Indigeneity Cultural Brokerage, the Political Economy of Tradition, and the Santa Rosa Carib Community of Arima, Trinidad & Tobago	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Maximillian Forte
1997 - 2002	Principal Supervisor	SENSUAL EXTENSIONS: JOY, PAIN AND MUSIC-MAKING IN A POLICE BAND	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Simone Dennis

Email: john.gray@adelaide.edu.au

John Gray

Education

Journals

Books

Book Chapters

Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

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