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Kim McCaul provides expertise in anthropology, linguistics, mediation and facilitation. He has been working as a private consultant since July 2011. Prior to that he spent 10 years as anthropologist at the Native Title Section of the South Australian Crown Solicitor’s Office and one year as anthropologistrincipal Project Manager) at the South Australian Aboriginal Heritage Branch of the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Division. He has worked in urban and remote contexts on researching, presenting, analysing and assessing ethnographic and linguistic information for native title and heritage processes, has conducted cross-cultural mediations, and facilitated negotiations, expert conferences and community meetings. He also has a long-standing research interest in cross-cultural notions of health and spirituality.
Kim has developed and delivered cross-cultural training and education programs, including Aboriginal cultural awareness training for staff of the South Australian Department of Justice, Aboriginal heritage awareness training for various industry bodies and an undergraduate course called Language and the Law at the University of New England. He is an occasional lecturer in anthropology at the University of Adelaide and at Flinders University. |
Prior to coming to Australia Kim worked in a number of other cross-cultural contexts, including at the International Federation of Red Cross / Red Crescent Societies, Royal Mail International and as a language teacher in Brazil.
He speaks fluent German, French and Portuguese and has a basic working knowledge of Spanish, Dutch, Pitjantjatjara and Yolngu Matha.
For a full CV or to discuss how Kim may be able to assist you please contact [email protected]
He speaks fluent German, French and Portuguese and has a basic working knowledge of Spanish, Dutch, Pitjantjatjara and Yolngu Matha.
For a full CV or to discuss how Kim may be able to assist you please contact [email protected]
Selected Publications
2017 Clamor Schurmann’s contribution to the ethnographic record of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia in Peterson, Nicolas & Kenny, Anna (eds.). German Ethnography in Australia. ANU Press: Canberra
2016 The making of a Simpson Desert clever man in Austin, Peter, Koch, Harold and Simpson, Jane (eds.). Language, Land and Story in Australia. EL Publishing: London.
2014 Fighting over the heritage of South Australia’s great salt lakes in Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 38:1-29
2011 Understanding courtroom communication through cultural scripts in Wagner, Anne (ed.) Explorations on Courtroom Discourse: The Language of Power and Control. Ashgate Publishing: Farnham, UK
2011 Mediumship, spirit possession and our understanding of reality in Paranthropology 2(1):45-46
2010 ’Competing narratives’ versus ‘interest based negotiation’ and the bar of evidence in Bauman, Toni (ed.) Dilemmas in Applied Native Title Anthropology in Australia. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
2010 An experiential paradigm for the anthropology of consciousness in Paranthropology 1(2):7-10.
2008 The persistence of traditional healers in the 21st century and of anthropology’s struggle to understand them. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia. Vol.33
2004 Rainmaking in Aboriginal Australia: a multidimensional perspective in Journal of Conscientiology 7(27)
2004 (with Luise Hercus) Otto Siebert: a missionary-ethnographer in Occasional Papers 3, Strehlow Research Center
2003 Anthropology and the consciential paradigm in Journal of Conscientiology 6(22)
2016 The making of a Simpson Desert clever man in Austin, Peter, Koch, Harold and Simpson, Jane (eds.). Language, Land and Story in Australia. EL Publishing: London.
2014 Fighting over the heritage of South Australia’s great salt lakes in Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 38:1-29
2011 Understanding courtroom communication through cultural scripts in Wagner, Anne (ed.) Explorations on Courtroom Discourse: The Language of Power and Control. Ashgate Publishing: Farnham, UK
2011 Mediumship, spirit possession and our understanding of reality in Paranthropology 2(1):45-46
2010 ’Competing narratives’ versus ‘interest based negotiation’ and the bar of evidence in Bauman, Toni (ed.) Dilemmas in Applied Native Title Anthropology in Australia. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
2010 An experiential paradigm for the anthropology of consciousness in Paranthropology 1(2):7-10.
2008 The persistence of traditional healers in the 21st century and of anthropology’s struggle to understand them. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia. Vol.33
2004 Rainmaking in Aboriginal Australia: a multidimensional perspective in Journal of Conscientiology 7(27)
2004 (with Luise Hercus) Otto Siebert: a missionary-ethnographer in Occasional Papers 3, Strehlow Research Center
2003 Anthropology and the consciential paradigm in Journal of Conscientiology 6(22)
