Staff profile
Dr Ray Madden
Lecturer, Program Coordinator (Aboriginal Studies)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Social SciencesMB 452, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 1685
- F: +61 3 9479 2705
- E: r.madden@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
PhD (La Trobe).
Membership of professional Associations
The Australian Anthropological Society
Area of study
Aboriginal Studies
Anthropology
Brief Profile
My teaching focuses on ethnographic methods, applied anthropology and anthrozoology. My publications reflect my interests in a critique of the concept of culture, anthropology at home, Aboriginal issues in south-east Australia, applied anthropology and human and animal relations.
Research interests
Anthropology of Development
- Applied anthropology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Ethnographic methodologies
- Indigenous issues
- South-east Australian Aboriginal issues
- The anthropology of human and animal relations
Teaching Units
- ANT3MQA – Doing Anthropology.
- ANT23APA – Applied Anthropology
- ANT23ANI – Humans and Animals
- HON4ANT – Honours Anthropology Elective
Recent Publications
- Madden, R. (2010) Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography. London: Sage.
- Madden, R. (2010) ‘James’s Dawson’s Scrapbook: Advocacy and Antipathy in Colonial Western Victoria’. La Trobe Journal. 85(May): 55-69.
- Madden, R. (2010) Imagining the Greyhound: 'Racing' and 'Rescue' Narratives in a Human and Dog Relationship. Continuum. 24(4): 503-515.
- Madden, R. (2006) ‘Doing Anthropology’, In P. Beilharz & R. Manne (eds), Reflected Light: Latrobe Essays, Melbourne: Black Inc.
- Madden, R. (2006) ‘Victoria's Western District,’ in P. Beilharz, & T. Hogan (eds) Relocating Sociology: Time, Place and Division, Melbourne, Oxford University Press.
