Title: The Nature of Culture

Stephen Muecke is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has worked extensively in Indigenous Australia and more recently on the historical and contemporary links between culture and commerce in the Indian Ocean. His 1984 Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (with Krim Benterrak and Paddy Roe) was one of the first postmodern ethnographies, and he is well known for his ficto-critical writing style (No Road (bitumen all the way), 1997).

More recent books are Ancient & Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous
Philosophy (UNSW Press 2004) and (with Devleena Ghosh, eds.) Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges, 2007.