James J. Fox
James J. Fox is Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University where he has been based since 1975. He was Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies until his retirement in 2006. Professor Fox has been studying oral composition in parallelism since his first fieldwork on the Island of Rote in 1965–66. Stimulated by Professor Roman Jakobson, whom he met at Harvard University, he has done considerable comparative research on semantic parallelism and continues to work with master poets from the Timor area.


Ritual Voices of Revelation »
The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia

Austronesian Paths and Journeys »

Expressions of Austronesian Thought and Emotions »

Master poets, ritual masters »
The art of oral composition among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia

Explorations in Semantic Parallelism »

Origins, Ancestry and Alliance »
Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography

The Austronesians »
Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Inside Austronesian Houses »
Perspectives on domestic designs for living

The Poetic Power of Place »
Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality
