Jaap Timmer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Sydney, and a former Senior Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, where the groundwork for this book manuscript was established. He has published extensively on religion, history, and sovereignty in Indonesian Papua and the Solomon Islands. His recent research focuses on historicity, cultural heritage, and the concept of cosmic polity among the Asmat people of Papua.

Political Ecology, Religion, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Applied Anthropology, Contemporary Pacific, Cultural Change, Development, Sovereignty, Material Culture

Anthropology

Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS)
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA)
Australian Anthropological Society (AAS)

Melanesia

The Colonial time
20th century
21st century

Indonesian, Pijin