Dr Bree Blakeman

Bree is an Australian anthropologist. She is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University.

Bree has worked with Yolngu people in northeast Arnhem Land since 2007. Her previous research focused on emotion concepts in Yolngu languages and how this body of concepts forms part of the local theory of value and exchange. From 2013-2015 Bree worked as an applied anthropologist in the Northern Territory. She has contributed to teaching a number of undergraduate courses focused Aboriginal Australia at The Australian National University over the years including working as course coordinator for ANTH2005/ANTH6005: Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment in 2018. She was previously sole author of the popular blog, Footnotes and Fieldnotes (http://fieldnotesandfootnotes.wordpress.com/). Her other interests include property relations and land tenure, poetry and anarchist political philosophy. She is also the Mother of one very cute little boy.

• Yolngu culture and languages
• Anthropology of Aboriginal Australia
• Anthropology of Emotion
• Cognitive Anthropology
• Exchange theory
• Value theory
• Theories of autonomy
• Stateless societies