Reserachers working on


VERBAL ART


(alphabetical order)

Christian DÖHLER (DOEHLER)
Postdoctoral Fellow at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Western (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Province (Fly)
Keywords: Environment, Language Documentation, Language Change, Language Shift, Language Socialization, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Description, Myth, Music and Languages

Alice FROMONTEIL
PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, France

Administrative areas: Wallis and Futuna
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Verbal Art, Poetics, Oral Tradition, Oral History, Myth, Migration, Memory, Literacy, Landscape

Darja HOENIGMAN
Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik province, Karawari/Arafundi, Kanjimei, Meakambut
Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Conflict, Myth, Secret Languages, Spirit Possession, Verbal Art, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Jari KUPIAINEN
Principal lecturer, Media Studies at Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands), Western (Solomon Islands)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Art, Audiovisual and Media, Agency, Christianisation, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonial Discourse, Complexity, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Production

Denis MONNERIE
Professor emeritus, Laboratoire LinCS UMR 7069 CNRS Université de Strasbourg at Université de Strasbourg, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Solomon Islands
Keywords: Kinship, Language, Ceremonial discourse, Names and Naming, Performance, Political Anthropology, Resilience, Ritual Studies, Social Change, Society

Alan RUMSEY
Professor, Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Intersubjectivity, Verbal Art, Political Process, Children

Borut TELBAN
Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Ritual, Personhood, Social Organization, Kinship, Linguistic Anthropology, Social Change, Christianisation, Cosmology, Poetics, Verbal Art

James WEINER
Contractual researcher at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Australia
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia
Keywords: Land Tenure, Myth, Place, Social-ecological System, Native Title, Verbal Art, Law and Culture