Part 1: Diverse Fields
Chapter 1: ‘A chance to be of use to my country’: Stanner during World War II – Geoffrey Gray
Chapter 2: Stanner and Makerere: On the ‘insuperable’ challenges of practical anthropology in post-war East Africa – Melinda Hinkson
Chapter 3: WEH Stanner and the foundation of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies, 1959-1964 – John Mulvaney
Chapter 4: Stanner: reluctant bureaucrat – Barrie Dexter
Part 2: In Pursuit of Transcendent Value
Chapter 5: Frontier encounter: Stanner’s Durmugam – Jeremy Beckett
Chapter 6: Journey to the source: In pursuit of Fitzmaurice rock art and the high culture – Melinda Hinkson
Chapter 7: Stanner’s veil: transcendence and the limits of scientific inquiry – Peter Sutton
Chapter 8: ‘Religion’, ‘magic’, ‘sign’ and ‘symbol’ in Stanner’s approach to Aboriginal religions – Ian Keen
Chapter 9: ‘Joyous maggots’: the symbolism of Yolngu mortuary rituals – Howard Murphy
Chapter 10: Indigenous songs as ‘operational structures of transactional life’: a study of song genres at Wadeye – Alberto Furlan
Part 3: Land and People
Chapter 11: Stanner and Aboriginal land use: ecology, economic change, and enclosing the commons – Peter Sutton
Chapter 12: ‘Too sociological’? revisiting ‘Aboriginal territorial organization’ – Nicolas Peterson
Chapter 13: Stanner, ‘Milirrpum’, and the Woodward Royal Commission – Nancy Williams
Chapter 14: Counting the cost: Stanner and the Port Keats/Wadeye population – John Taylor
Part 4: A Public Intellectual
Chapter 15: WEH Stanner and the historians – Ann Curthoys
Chapter 16: After the Dreaming: The Boyer Lecturer as social critic – Tim Rowse
Chapter 17: From ‘After the Dreaming’ to “After land rights’: WEH Stanner’s legacy as Indigenous policy intellectual – Jon Altman