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Reserachers working on TAPA (alphabetical order)
Pauline McKenzie AUCOIN Research Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal, CanadaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Western (Fiji)Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cosmology , Culture-nature Relations , Dance , Gender , Language Ideology , Performance , Power and Resistance , Social Studies of Knowledge , Space , Religion
Viola CARMILLA Independent researcher, ItalyAdministrative areas: Samoa , New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Change , Diasporas , Exchanges , Globalization , Life-cycle Exchanges , Literature , Migration , Post-Colonialism , Postcolonial Literatures , Power and Resistance
Andrea EIMKE PhD Student, CoLab at AUT Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Cook Islands Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Art , Creativity , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Technology , Feeling of Belonging , Identity , Material Culture , Place , Space , Tapa
Anna-Karina HERMKENS Lecturer, Anthropology at Macquarie University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Indonesia , Maluku Utara (Indonesia), Papua (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea , Madang (Papua New Guinea), North Solomons (Papua New Guinea), Northern (Papua New Guinea), Central (Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islands , Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon IslandsKeywords: Art , Mission History , Personhood , Religion , Violence , Gender , Gender Violence , Material Culture , Tapa
Jari KUPIAINEN Principal lecturer, Media Studies at Karelia University of Applied Sciences, FinlandAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands), Western (Solomon Islands)Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Art , Audiovisual and Media , Agency , Christianisation , Cognitive Anthropology , Colonial Discourse , Complexity , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Production
Billie Jane LYTHBERG Research Fellow, Mira Szaszy Research Centre for Maori and Pacific Economic Development at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cosmology , Cultural Heritage , Diasporas , Economic Anthropology , First Contacts , Local Nomenclature , Material Culture , Museums , Natural Resources
Carol Elizabeth MAYER Administrative areas: Australia , Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia (area), PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropology of Knoweldge , Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Customary Law , Worldview , Visual Anthropology , Tapa , Sustainable Development
Andrew MILLS Research Fellow, Centre for Textile Conservation & Technical Art History, History of Art Department, School of Culture & Creative Arts at University of Glasgow, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Tonga , Fiji Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Art , Anthropology of Ontology , Cultural Change , Material Culture , Mission History , Museums , Semiotics , Tapa , Weapons , Violent Conflict
Michael Clifford QUINNELL Adjunct/associate Researcher, Cultural Environments QMS at Queensland Museum, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu Places: Australia (area), MelanesiaKeywords: Material Culture , Museums , Rock Art , Torres Strait , Typology , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Tapa , Native Title , Indo-Pacific Prehistory , Ethnographic Encounter
Andrea SEELENFREUND Professor, Escuela de Antropología at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, ChileAdministrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Colonial Discourse , Cultural Studies , Cultural Heritage , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Ethnobotany , Genetic Diversity , Genetic Resources , Natural Resources , Plant Domestication , Tapa
Hilke THODE-ARORA Curator, Oceania at Museum Fuenf Kontinente, GermanyAdministrative areas: Niue , Samoa , New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Indigenous Agency , Inter-ethnic Relations , Heritage Management , Ethnicity , Cultural Change , Transnationalism , Women's Associations , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Museums
Fanny Wonu VEYS Curator at National Museum of World Cultures, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: Tonga , New Zealand , Australia Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Art , Exhibitions , First Contacts , Heritage , Indigenous Christianities , Material Culture , Mission History , Museums , Tapa , Visual Anthropology
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