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Tawa, J., Negr贸n, R., Suyemoto, K.L. & Carter, A.S. (2015). The effects of resource competition on Blacks鈥, Asians鈥, and Whites鈥 social distances: A virtual world method. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18 (6), 761 鈥 777.


Thorner, S. (2024) Together with co-editors Frances Edmonds and Maree Clarke, Assistant Professor Sabra Thorner has a brand new book out. ngargee // coming together to celebrate: Southeast Australian Aboriginal Art is a field-defining volume celebrating contemporary artists, intercultural collaborations, and Indigenous sovereignty.


Thorner, S. (2023) 鈥淚ndigenous Media: Currents of Engagement鈥 (with K. Dowell and G. Zamorano). In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.


Thorner, S. (2022) 鈥淏ringing a Living Archive to Life.鈥 Pursuit (online magazine of the University of Melbourne). With F. Edmonds and  J. Leane. Available: .


Thorner, S. 2022. "Being Called to Action: Contemporary Museum Ethnographies." (Author of this introductory article and Guest Editor of Special Issue) Materiality, Belonging, and the Activation of Difference, Special Issue of Museum Anthropology 45(1). Online/Early view. DOI: 10.1111/muan.12243.


Thorner, S. (2020) 鈥淭he Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art,鈥 (a photo-essay, with M. Clarke). AnthroVision, the online journal of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA), Volume 8, Issue 1, Paolo Favero, ed. Launched August 31, 2022; available: .


Edmonds, F., Khan, R., Thorner, S., and M. Clarke. 2020. "The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Through Collaborative Art-Making." REG/AC: Revista de Estudios Globales & Arte Contempor谩neo // Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art, 7(1): 267-311.


Thorner, S., F. Edmonds, M. Clarke, K. Thorpe, R. Khan, and S. Huebner (2019). 鈥淭he Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Maree Clarke and the Circulation of Photographs as Culture-Making.鈥 Mapping Meaning 3: 38-63. Available: .


Thorner, S., Rive, L., Dallwitz, J., and Inyika, J. (2019). 鈥淣ever Giving Up: Negotiating, Culture-Making, and the Infinity of the Archive.鈥 In Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 18. Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, 263-284.  Honolulu: University of Hawai鈥檌 Press.


Thorner, S. (2019) 鈥淭he Photograph as Archive: Crafting Contemporary Koorie Culture,鈥 Journal of Material Culture 24(1): 22-47.