Possession, in Four Voices

Richard Davis has long anthropological experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia where he has published on gender (Indigenous Australian masculinities in particular), performance, the frontier, Indigenous epitathic writing, death, and knowledge. He has held academic positions at the Australian National University, University of Western Australia, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and Charles Darwin University. In addition, he has worked as a Senior Anthropologist at the Central Land Council, has advised both the Australian Federal Government and British Museum on protection and repatriation of Indigenous human remains, and prepared anthropological reports for Australian Native title claims. Alongside his academic research and teaching, he has expanded his ethnographic writing into poetry where he has explored issues of embodiment, encounter, and emplacement in fieldwork, publishing his poetry in Anthropology and Humanism, Westerly, and other books and journals. He is currently working as an academic anthropologist for the Australian government.