Guido Carlo Pigliasco lectures in the Department of Anthropology of the University of University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa as Affiliate Graduate Faculty, and in the Department of Social Sciences of the Kapi‘olani Community College. As a former franchising lawyer, his research and publications focus on Pacific Islanders’ rights in tangible and intangible cultural heritage. As a former consultant and correspondent he has worked with the South Pacific Tourism Organization (formerly Tourism Council of the South Pacific) and Italian newspers and television networks. He is currently board member on the Steering Committee of Critical Tourism Studies Asia-Pacific and on the Educational and Cultural Affairs Committee of Hawai‘i European Cinema, and serves as a Foreign Law Consultant at the Supreme Court of the State of Hawai‘i. Guido is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and a Taylor Statten Camps Alumni.

Cultural Heritage, Law and Culture, Narratives, Tourism, Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Resources, Art, Audiovisual and Media, Christianity, Ritual, Firewalking, Ethnographic Filmmaking

Anthropology
Law

European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)
Pacific History Association (PHA)
Société des Océanistes (SdO)

Fiji Islands
Beqa Island
Manihiki
Atiu
Tahaa
O'ahu
Savai'i
New Ireland province
Karawari/Arafundi

21st century
20th century