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| Lisa Renard
Independent researcher
Stout Research Centre, Museum and Heritage Studies
Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
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About |
Doctor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Museologist.
I hold a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Strasbourg (2020). My thesis was dedicated to "The Māori Art of weaving relationships between the living and their ancestors".
Over the past fourteen years, I have worked closely with artists, Māori experts, and museum professionals in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Western Europe, mainly in France, the Netherlands and Germany. In addition to my primary area of expertise, which focuses on the relationship between Aotearoa New Zealand and Western Europe, I am involved in several research-creation projects with artists in France. Drawing on these various fields of research, I analyse the relationships that humans build with one another and with other entities in the world through the many treasures they create and mobilise.
I am currently a Research Associate at the Stout Research Centre, Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa Nouvelle-Zélande. I am also a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of Ethnology (since 2012) and a Research Associate at the CNRS-Université de Strasbourg interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory (UMR 7069, LinCS).
My ongoing research centers on the memories associated with a collection of taonga (korowai, kaitaka, hei tiki and taonga puoro) that were brought to France from Aotearoa by Dumont d'Urville, captain of l'Astrolabe (1826-1829 ; 1837-1840).
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Specialities |
Material Culture, Textiles / Fibre Arts, Exchanges, Museums, Property, Natural Resources, Mediation, Kinship, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, International Relationships, History, First Contacts, Ethnobotany, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, Cultural Technology, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Art |
Discipline(s) |
History
Anthropology
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Member of |
e-toile Pacifique (e-toile)  Société des Océanistes (SdO) New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) |
Geographic administrative areas |
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Geographic places |
Polynesia
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Historical periods |
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
20th century
21st century
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Indigenous languages |
French, English, German, Standard, Spanish, Maori |
Experiences |
Museographic Research (2011)
— Volkenkunde Museum Leiden
3 months internship. Research and analysis of the New Zealand's photographic collection. Assistant of Tineke Mook in the organisation of the public manifestations linked to the temporary exhibition "Mana Māori".PhD Research (2012 to 2020)
— University of Strasbourg / DynamE
Māori, weaving, cloaks, kākahu, exchange, circulations, taonga, New-Zealand, Europe, museums of ethnology, material culture, history, relationships.Teaching Experiences (2012 to now)
— University of Strasbourg / Institut d'ethnologie
Ethnography, field methods, ethnology of Oceania, social and cultural anthropology, material culture, migration, craftsmanship, Māori society of New Zealand, exchange, ethics and deontology of the research.Museographic Research (2012)
— Linden Museum Stuttgart
4 months internship. Assisting Dr Ingrid Heermann in the preparation and set up of the temporary exhibition "Māori die ersten Bewohner Neuseelands". Guided tours.Museographic Research (2013)
— Te Papa Tongarewa / National Museum of New Zealand Wellington
2 months internship. Assisting Awhina Tamarapa in the preparation of the temporary exhibition "Ngati Toa Rangatiratanga".Field Research (2013)
Museographic Research (2015)
— Rotorua Museum and Auckland War Museum
Research on the Māori weaving collections : tukutuku, kete, puipui and kākahu at the Rotorua Museum for 2 weeks.
Assisting Tina Wirihana and experts in weaving on the project of restauration of the tukutuku panels in the meeting house Hotonui.Field Research (2015)
Field Research (2023 to 2024)
— Fondation Fyssen / University of Auckland
Laureate of the Fyssen Foundation's postdoctoral grant. This grant enables me to research "The Mnemonic Qualities of Taonga (Māori Ancestral Treasures) housed in French museum collections" at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand from January 2023 to December 2024 under the guidance of Prof. Ngarino Ellis.Museographic Research (2025 to 2026)
— Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac - Deakin University, Melbourne
Identify and document Australian Indigenous objects that were sent abroad as part of the Great Exhibitions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France. |
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