John Gray

John Gray

School of Society and Culture

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

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

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

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.
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2014 Gray, J. (2014). Hefting onto place: intersecting lives of humans and sheep on Scottish hills landscape. Anthrozoos, 27(2), 219-234.
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2011 Gray, J. (2011). Building a house in Nepal: Auspiciousness as a practice of emplacement. Social Analysis, 55(1), 73-93.
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2011 Gray, J. (2011). Architecture and architechnē: building and revealing in high-caste Nepalese houses. South Asia, 34(1), 89-112.
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2010 Gray, J. (2010). Local agricultural shows in the Scottish Borders. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16(2), 347-371.
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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.
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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.
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2003 Gray, J. (2003). A rural sense of place: intimate experience in planning a countryside for life. Planning Theory & Practice, 4(1), 93-96.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1993 Gray, J. N. (1993). <i>Dharma</i>and domestic practice in Nepal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 16(1), 73-88.
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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.
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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.

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.
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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.

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 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Fermenting place: wine production and terroir in McLaren Vale, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Bill Skinner
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 - 2016 Co-Supervisor The Social Lives of Superfoods Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jessica Loyer
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
2011 - 2016 Co-Supervisor A Recipe for Identity: Food and Culture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Emma Thrussell
2010 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Landscapes of Participation and Tradition: The Australian Folk Festival as Process and Public Event Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Rachel Massey
2010 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Institutions and Values: Climate Change Adaptation Mainstreaming Implementation in Kiribati Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Felicity Jane Prance
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 Sophie Corfield
1997 - 2002 Principal Supervisor SENSUAL EXTENSIONS: JOY, PAIN AND MUSIC-MAKING IN A POLICE BAND Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Simone Dennis
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

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