James Joseph Fox (born 29 May 1940) is an American anthropologist and historian of

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

. He was educated at

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(AB 1962) and

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in (Social Anthropology)(B Litt. 1965, DPhil. 1968) where he was a

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

. The title of his doctoral thesis was
The Rotinese: A study of the social organisation of an eastern indonesian people
' He has taught at various universities including Harvard, Cornell, Duke and Chicago. He has also taught at various European Universities including Leiden, Bielefeld and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He was elected a foreign member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

in 1988 and is a ''Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences'' in Australia. He has conducted fieldwork in

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...

Roti Roti (also known as chapati) is a round flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent. It is popular in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, Trin ...

, and

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-w ...

. He has also been an administrator at

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

at the

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs is a constituent of the College of Asia and the Pacific, but was formerly part of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, which was founded in 1946 as part of the Institute of Advanced ...

. He is currently Professorial fellow in the ANU Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP).

Works include:-

* 1977 Harvest of the Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia. * 1980 The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia. * 1980 Indonesia: The Making of a Culture. (Vol 1 of 3 volumes of Indonesia: Australian Perspectives) * 1980 Indonesia: Australian Perspectives. Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University volumes published as a single volume, with editors:J.J. Fox, R.G. Garnaut, P.T. McCawley, and J.A.C. Mackie.* 1986 Bahasa, Sastra dan Sejarah: Kumpulan Karangan Mengenai Masyarakat Pulau Roti. Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan. anguage, Literature and History: Collected Essays on Rotinese Society.Six essays in English on Rotinese culture and history with accompanying Indonesian translations.* 1988 To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia. * 1992 The Heritage of Traditional Agriculture Among the Western Austronesians. * 1993 Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order. * 1993 Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living. * 1995 The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. * 1996 Origin, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography.

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