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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>Call for expressions of interests in positions on the ARC Discovery Project <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><i>Skin and Kin in Aboriginal Australia: linguistic and historical perspectives on the dynamics of social categories</i></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>We are seeking expressions of interest in either of the following roles on the project, which is due to start in July 2012 and continue for three years.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>(1) Project manager/research assistant $63-66000 pa approx<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>(2) Ph.D student with stipend $27651 pa<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>The project is based at ANU with CI’s Patrick McConvell, Harold Koch and Jane Simpson; and partner Laurent Dousset at EHESS in France. The summary description is as follows:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>‘Indigenous Australians are linked in family-like networks, underpinned by ways of talking about social relationships. Social category systems unique to Australia are central to this linking, enabling people to viewothers as family. The unparalleled database created for the Austkin project gives an empirical basis for investigating the language of social categories. Using methods from linguistics, history and anthropology, we will trace the history of 'skin' systems and their dynamic relationships with kinship, marriage patterns, and land connections. This project will give fresh insight into how Aboriginal people have organised social interaction and created enduring societies.’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>We are seeking people with background in linguistics, anthropology or history, or some combination of these, and knowledge of Indigenous society in Australia. We would also be interested in expressions of interest from people with experience in statistical approaches to data analysis from other disciplines, and/or social network analysis.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>CV’s will be welcome but this is not a call for formal applications for the positions at this stage: a short response of 100-500 words would be enough.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>It is possible that the project manager position will have be offered at 0.8 rather than full-time so for those interested in that position it would be useful to know whether either or both of the full-time and part-time is acceptable. For the Ph.D it would be good to know what kinds of themes you would like to pursue, within the broad description of the project.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'>A more detailed project description will be made available to those who respond to this call.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='line-height:115%'>Please reply to </span><a href="mailto:Patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au"><span style='line-height:115%'>Patrick.mcconvell@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style='line-height:115%'> by 6th February 2012</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>