Erich Kolig

Anthropologist and writer.

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Single-authored books and monographs

1981, The Silent Revolution: the Effects of Modernization on Australian Aboriginal Religion. Philadelphia: ISHI (192p.)

1987, The Noonkanbah Story: portrait of an Aboriginal community in Western Australia. Dunedin: University of Otago Press (159p.)

1988, The Noonkanbah Story... Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2nd ed.(159p.)

1989, The Noonkanbah Story... Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 3rd ed.(181p.)

1989, Dreamtime Politics: Religion, World View and Utopian Thought in Australian Aboriginal Society. Berlin: D.Reimer (161p.)

1996, Umstrittene Wuerde: Andreas Reischek, der Neuseeland-Forscher aus dem Oberoesterreichischen Muehlviertel (1845-1902). Wiener Ethnohistorische Blaetter 41, Vienna: Ethnologischer Instituts Verlag der Universitaet Wien (153p.)

2010, New Zealand's Muslims and Multiculturalism. Leiden: Brill. (272p.)

2012, Conservative Islam: a Cultural Anthropology. Lanham MA: Lexington Books. (381p.)

2014, Wiener Märchen: über Museen, Forscher und magische Objekte. Frankfurt a.M.: Frankfurter Taschenbuchverlag/Public Media Verlag. (74p.)

2017, Maban - das Paranormale bei den Aborigines Australiens. Berlin: Frank & Timme. (100p.)

Edited books/volumes

2002, E. Kolig and H. Mückler (eds.), Politics of Indigeneity in the South Pacific. Muenster, Hamburg, London: LIT. (186p.)

2006, E. Kolig (ed.) Muslims in New Zealand. Special issue of New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies vol. 8/2.

2009, E..Kolig, V. Angeles and S. Wong (eds.), Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. (259p.)

2014, E. Kolig (ed.) Freedom of Speech and Islam. Farnham: Ashgate. (262p.)

2016, E. Kolig (edited with Malcolm Voyce), Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia. Lanham: Lexington. (280p.)

Book chapters

1970, Spirituelle Wesenheiten bei Paschai des Dara-i-Nuralam und Mirkhel Paschtunen, Afghanistan. Pp.281-285. In: Hundert Jahre Berliner Gesellschaft fuer Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, ed. by C. and H. Mahr, G. Pohle. Berlin: Reimer.

1977, From Tribesman to Citizen? Pp.33-53 In: Aborigines and Change; Australia in the '70s, R. Berndt. (ed.) Canberra: AIAS Press.

1978, Dialectics of Aboriginal Life Space.Pp.49-79. In:Whitefella Business:Aborigines in Australian Politics, M.Howard (ed.). Philadelphia: ISHI.

1979, Captain Cook in the western Kimberleys.Pp.274-82. In: Aborigines of the West:their past and their present, R. and C. Berndt (ed.). Nedlands: University Of Western Australia Press.

1982, An Obituary for Ritual Power. Pp.14-31. In: Aboriginal Power in Australian Society, M.Howard (ed.). St Lucia: Univ. of Queensland Press.

1984, The Mobility of Aboriginal religion. Pp.391-416. In: Religion in Aboriginal Australia: an anthology, M.Charlesworth, H.Morphy, D.Bell and K.Maddock (eds.). St Lucia: University of Queenland Press.

1987, Bi:n and Gadeja: an Australian Aboriginal model of the European society as a guide in social change. Pp.270-289. In: Traditional Aboriginal Society, W.Edwards (ed.). Melbourne: Macmillan.

1988, Noah's Ark Revisisted. Pp.241-248. In: The Flood Myth, A.Dundes (ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press.

1988, Mission not Accomplished. Pp.376-390.In:Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions, T.Swain and D. Rose (eds.). Adelaide: The Australian Association for the Study of Religions.

1988, A Nativistic and Millenarian Movement in North West Australia. (Translation of H.Petri and G. Petri-Odermann, Nativismus und Millenarismus. Pp.376-396. In: Aboriginal Australians and Christian Missions, T.Swain and D. Rose (eds.). Adelaide: The Australian Association for the Study of Religions.

1988, Religious Movements. Pp.165-167. In: The Australian People: an Encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, J.Jupp (ed.). Sydney, Angus & Robertson

1989, The Powers that Be and Those who Aspire to them: power, knowledge and reputation in Australian Aboriginal Society. Pp.43-65. In: Emergent Inequalities in Aboriginal Australia, J.Altman (ed.). Sydney, Oceania Monograph

1990, Government Policies and Religious Strategies: fighting with myth at Noonkanbah. Pp.235-252. In: Going it Alone?, R.Tonkinson and M. Howard (eds.). Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press

1995, Darrugu - Secret Objects in a Changing World. Pp. 27-42. In: Politics of the Secret, C. Anderson (ed.). Sydney , Oceania Monograph 45

1996, Aboriginal World View and Oral Traditions:the case of myth versus history, Pp.265-282. In: Kimberley Languages - in Honour of Howard Coate, W.McGregor (ed.). Munich, Newcastle, Lincom Europa

1997, Recycling Charisma and the Sacralisation of the Landscape. Pp.201-221. In: Gestern und Heute - Traditionen in der Suedsee. Festschrift fuer G.Koch. ed.by M.Schindlbeck, (Baessler -Archiv vol. 45)Berlin: Reimer

2002, Guardians of Nature or Ecologists of the Stomach? The indigenous cultural revival in New Zealand, resource use and nature conservation. Pp.7-23. In: Politics of Indigeneity in the South Pacific, E. Kolig and H. Mueckler (eds.). Muenster, Hamburg, London: LIT

2002, Introduction: Cultural revival, the construction of indigeneity and the world system. Pp.95-118. In: Politics of Indigeneity in the South Pacific, E Kolig and H. Mueckler (ed.). Muenster, Hamburg, London: LIT

2004, From a "Madonna in a Condom" to "Claiming the Airwaves". Pp. 135-158. In: Cultural Identity and Politics in the Pacific, T. van Meijl and J. Miedema (eds.). Leiden: KTVL Press.

2004, Coming Through the Backdoor? Secularisation in New Zealand and Maori Religiosity. Pp. 183-204. In: The Future of Christianity: New Zealand, J. Stenhouse and B. Knowles (eds.). Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum Press.

2005, The politics of indigenous - or ingenious - traditions: some thoughts on the Australian and New Zealand situation. Pp. 245-278. In: Tradition and Agency, T.Otto and P. Pedersen (eds.). Aarhus: University of Aarhus Press.

2006, Noble Savages or Misogynists? An ethnohistorical evaluation of gender relations in Australian Aboriginal society. Pp.345-362. In: Ethnohistorie: Empirie und Praxis, H. Mueckler, W. Zips and M. Kremser (eds). WBEA 14. Vienna: Facultas WUV

2006, Radical Islam, Dakwah and Democracy in Indonesia. Pp. 43-66. In: Understanding Indonesia, S. Epstein (ed.), Wellington: Asian Studies Institute.

2006, Freedom, Identity Construction and Cultural Closure: The Taniwha, the hijab and the Wiener Schnitzel as Boundary Markers. Pp. 25-39. In: Public Policy and Ethnicity, E. Rata and R. Openshaw (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2006, Muslim traditions and Islamic Law in New Zealand: the "burqa case" and the challenge of multiculturalism. Pp. 204-224. In: Asia in the Making of New Zealand. H. Johnson and B. Moloughney (eds.). Auckland: Auckland University Press.

2009, Romancing Culture and its Limitations: policies of cultural recognition, multiculturalism and cultural boundaries in New Zealand. Pp. 63-88. In: The Politics of Conformity in New Zealand, R. Openshaw and E. Rata. North Shore City: Pearson.

2009, (with S. Wong and V. Angeles), Introduction: Crossroad Civilisations and Bricolage Identities. Pp.9-20. In: Identity in Crossroad Civilisations, E. Kolig, V. Angeles and S, Wong (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

2009, Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand: the Challenge of Multiculturalism, Human Rights and National Security - and the return of the Xenophobes. Pp.219-240. In: Identity in Crossroad Civilisations, E Kolig, V. Angeles and S. Wong (eds). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

2010, To Shariatizise or not to shariaticize: Islamic and Secular Law in Liberal Democratic Society. Pp.255-277. In: Shari'a in the West, R. Ahdar and N. Aroney (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2012, Is Multiculturalism Working in New Zealand? On the absence of virulent Islamophobia. Pp.177-196. In: Jahrbuch fur Islamophobieforschung 2012. Vienna: New Academic Press.

2012, Ferdinand von Hochstetter: Wahlösterreicher, Neuseelandforscher und Maorifreund. Pp11-126. In: Österreicher in der Südsee: Forscher, Reisende, Auswanderer, H. Mückler (ed.). Vienna, Münster: LIT.

2012, Der Österreicher Andreas Reischek in Neuseeland: Ehrenhäuptling oder Erzfeind der Maori? Pp.199-212. In: Österreicher in der Südsee: Forscher, Reisende, Auswanderer, H. Mückler (ed.). Vienna, Münster: LIT.

2013, "De-Talebanizing Islam and Creating Transcultural Spaces". Pp.113-135. In: Paul Morris, William Shepard, Toni Tidswell and Paul Trebilco (eds), The Teaching and Study of Islam in Western Universities. London, Routledge.

2014, 'Introduction: This Book, Its Mission and the Essays'. Pp.1-19. In: Freedom of Speech and Islam, Erich Kolig (ed.). Farnham, Ashgate.

2014, 'Muslim Sensitivities and the West'. Pp. 63-123. In: Freedom of Speech and Islam, Erich Kolig (ed.). Farnham, Ashgate.

2015, 'Whither Cultural Acceptance? Muslims and Multiculturalism in New Zealand'. Pp.159-192. In: Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, G.Gosh and J.Leckie (eds.). Dunedin, Otago University Press.

2016, "Australia and New Zealand". In Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, R.Martin (ed.). Macmillan Reference USA.

2016, "Introduction: How to Achieve Integration". Pp. ix-xiii. In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia. (E.Kolig and M.Voyce) Lanham: Lexington.

2016, "From Cosmopolitanism to Pluralism - and Return". Pp. 3-31. In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia. (E.Kolig and M.Voyce) Lanham: Lexington.

2016, "The Spectre of Parallel Societies and Social Disintegration". Pp. 67-89. In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia. (E.Kolig and M.Voyce) Lanham: Lexington.

2016, "Conclusion". Pp. 251-260 In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia. (E.Kolig and M.Voyce) Lanham: Lexington.

2017, "Doing research in the Kimberley and carrying ideological baggage". Pp. In German Ethnography in Australia (N.Peterson and A. Kenny). Canberra: ANU Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

1967, Verification by Double Translation.Mitteilungen der oesterreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Ur-und Fruehgeschichte 18:63-69

1968, (cum F.Trupp) Urgent Research in the Pashai-Area, Afghanistan. Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research 10:91-93

1971, Quo Vadis, Australian Aboriginal Religion? Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research 13:99-113

1972, Felsbilder und Akkulturation in Nordwest-Australien. Mitteilungen der oesterreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Ur- und Fruehgeschichte 23:86-96

1972, Bi:n and Gadeja: an Australian Aboriginal Model of the European Society as a guide in social change. Oceania 43:1-18

1973, Aboriginal Man's Best Foe? Mankind 9:122-124

1973, Aboriginal Land Rights, Policies and Anthropology: an Anthropological Dilemma. Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnolological Research 15:57-69

1973/4, Progress and Preservation: an Aboriginal Perspective. Anthropological Forum 3:264-279

1973/4, Glaube als Rechtsmittel: Anatomie eines Landanspruchs moderner Schwarzaustralier. Wiener Voelkerkundliche Mitteilungen. 20/21 N.S.15:69-93

1974, Tradition and Emancipation: an Australian Aboriginal version of "nativism". Pp.1-42. Supplement, Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority. Perth, Government Printer

1974, Der Kadjina: Mythos und Territorialismus moderner Schwarzaustralier. Baessler-Archiv 22:283-304

1978, Aboriginal Dogmatics: Canines in Theory, Myth and Dogma. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 134:84-115

1979, Djuluru - ein synkretistischer Kult Nordwest-Australiens. Baessler -Archiv 27:419-448

1980, Toepferei und Weltanschauung in Nordwest-Australien: ein Beitrag zur Anthropologie des Kunsthandwerks bei australischen Urbewohnern. Archiv fuer Voelkerkunde 34:89-100

1980, Noah's Ark Revisited; on the myth-land connection in traditional Aboriginal thought. Oceania 51:118-132

1981, The Rainbow Serpent in the Aboriginal Pantheon; a review article. Oceania 51:312-316

1981, Custom or Foreign Influence: the paradox of Santo, Vanuatu. Pacific Perspective 10:57-61

1981, Woagaia: weltanschaulicher Wandel und neue Formen der Religiositaet in Nordwest-Australien. Baessler-Archiv 29:387-422

1985, Collector or Thief: Andreas Reischek in New Zealand and the problem of scientific ethics in the 19th century. Archiv fuer Voelkerkunde 39:127-146

1986, Andreas Reischek and the Maori: villainy or the nineteenth-century scientific ethos. Pacific Studies 10:55-78

1987, Post-contact Religious Movements in Australian Aboriginal Society. Anthropos 82:251-259

1987, Looking Past Our Noses: Relativism and Rational Critique in Anthropology. Wiener Voelkerkundliche Mitteilungen 29:75-94

1987, Kastom, Cargo and the Construction of Utopia on Santo, Vanuatu: the Nagriamel movement. Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes 85:181-199

1988, Australian Aboriginal Totemic Systems: structures of power. Oceania 58:2112-230

1992, Religious Power and the All-Father in the Sky: Monotheism in Australian Aboriginal Culture Reconsidered. Anthropos 87:9-31

1994, Rationality, Ideological Transfer, Cultural resistance and the Dreaming: the development of political thought in Australian Aboriginal society. Anthropos 89:111-124

1995, A Sense of History and the Reconstruction of Cosmology in Australian Aboriginal Society: the case of myth versus history. Anthropos 90:49-67

1996, Thrilling the Clay of Our Bodies: natural sites and the construction of sacredness in Australian Aboriginal and Austrian traditions, and in New Age philosophy. Anthropological Forum 7/3:348-381

1998, Der Oesterreicher Andreas Reischek in Neuseeland: Ehrenhaeuptling oder Erzfeind der Maori? Novara 1:41-55

1999, Ferdinand Hochstetter: Wahloesterreicher, Neuseelandforscher und Maorifreund. Novara 2:63-79

2000, Of Condoms, Biculturalism, and Political Correctness. Paideuma 46: 231-252
2000, Social causality, human agency and mythology. Anthropological Forum 10/1:9-30

2001, Allah is Everywhere: the importance of ijtihad for a Muslim Community in New Zealand. The Islamic Quarterly 45/2:139-159

2001, Modernisation without secularisation? Civil pluralism, democratisation, and re-Islamisation in Indonesia. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 3/2:17-41

2003, An Accord of Cautious Distance: Muslims in New Zealand, ethnic relations and image management. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 5/1:24-50

2003, Legitimising Belief: identity politics, utility, strategies of concealment, and rationalisation in Australian Aboriginal religion. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14/2:209-228

2004, Deconstructing the Waitangi Treaty Narrative: democracy, cultural pluralism, and political myth making in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Sites N.S. 1/4:84-118

2005,Radical Islam, Islamic fervour and political sentiments in Central Java, Indonesia. European Journal of East Asian Studies 4/1:55-86.

2005, New Zealand Muslims: the perimeters of multiculturalism and its legal instruments. New Zealand Sociology 20/2:73-97.

2006, (with William Shepard) Introduction: Muslims in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 8/2: 1-7.

2006, A Gordian Knot of Rights and Duties: New Zealand Muslims and Multiculturalism. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 8/2: 45-68.

2006, Interfacing with the West: Muslims, multiculturalism and radicalism in New Zealand. New Zealand Sociology 21/2: 215-246.

2008, (with Nahid Kabir) Not friend, not foe: the rocky road of enfranchisement of Muslims into multicultural nationhood in Australia and New Zealand. Immigrants and Minorities 26/3:266-300.

2015, Islamic Vigilantism, Blasphemy, Free Speech and the Internet: Charlie Hebdo's Contribution to the Conflict. Waikato Islamic Studies Review 1/2:4-23.

2019, Extremist Orientalism: the local and the global in the Christchurch massacre. Waikato Islamic Studies Review 5/1:20-37.

2020, The Roots of Extremists' Rage: Militant Islamism and White Supremacy as Identical Twins. Waikato Islamic Studies Review 6/1:4-20.

2021, Muhammad and the Question of Paedophilia. Waikato Islamic Studies Review 7/2:36-54.

2022, Editorial: "They are us" - the Christchurch mosque attack (15 March 2019), three years on, and the state of Muslim integration in New Zealand. Waikato Islamic Studies Review 8/1: 5-14.


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