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Christina   Toren

Professor emeritus
Anthropology
University of St Andrews (United Kingdom)

About
RESEARCH
Fieldwork, Sawaieke, Gau, Fiji 1981-83, 1990, 1993, 2005, 2007, 2013.

My area interests focus on Fiji and the Pacific, and Melanesia. My theoretical interests include: exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as an historical process.
Specialities
Discipline(s)
Anthropology
Member of
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)
Geographic administrative areas
Geographic places
Polynesia
Historical periods
20th century
21st century
The Colonial time
Indigenous languages
Fijian

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