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Tawa, J., Ma, R., & Katsumoto, S. (2016). “All lives matter:” The cost of colorblind racial attitudes in diverse social networks. Race and Social Problems, 8 (2), 196 - 208.


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


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


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) “The Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art,” (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: http://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/6647.


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 Contemporáneo // 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). “The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Maree Clarke and the Circulation of Photographs as Culture-Making.” Mapping Meaning 3: 38-63. Available: http://www.mappingmeaning.org/the-journal-issues.


Thorner, S., Rive, L., Dallwitz, J., and Inyika, J. (2019). “Never Giving Up: Negotiating, Culture-Making, and the Infinity of the Archive.” 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’i Press.


Thorner, S. (2019) “The Photograph as Archive: Crafting Contemporary Koorie Culture,” Journal of Material Culture 24(1): 22-47.