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| Lisa Renard
Postdoctoral Fellow Art history department / Fyssen Foundation University of Auckland (New Zealand)
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About |
Doctor in social and cultural anthropology and museologist, I am currently the 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. My research focuses on the memories associated with an ensemble of taonga (korowai, kaitaka, hei tiki, taonga puoro) brought to France from Aotearoa by Jules Dumont d'Urville captain of l'Astrolabe 1826-1829.
I am also a research associate at the CNRS-Université de Strasbourg interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory (UMR 7069, LinCS) and a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of Ethnology (since 2012).
For the past fourteen years, I have been working closely alongside artists, Māori experts, and museum professionals in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Western Europe (mainly in France, the Netherlands, and Germany).
Alongside my main field of research between Aotearoa New Zealand and Western Europe, I am involved in several research-action-creation projects alongside artists in France.
Drawing on these various fields of research, I analyse the relationships humans build with one another and with other entities in the world through the many treasures they create and mobilise.
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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) |
Anthropology
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Member of |
e-toile Pacifique (e-toile) Société des Océanistes (SdO) New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA)  |
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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) |
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