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Sophie CAILLON
Research Fellow, UMR 5175 CEFE Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Torba (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Vanua Lava, Mota Lava
Keywords: Agriculture, Environment, Land Management, Natural Resources, Seed Circulation, Agrobiodiversity, Local/Folk Classification, Local Nomenclature, Social Network Analysis, Coconut


Joseph Martin CHEER
Professor, Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University, Japan

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Samoa, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Australia (area), Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Applied Anthropology, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Politic, Cultural Geography, Cultural Change, Development, Heritage, Interdisciplinarity, Land Tenure


Ludovic COUPAYE
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology at University College London, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Agency, Agriculture, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Art, Body Theory, Categorization, Cognitive Anthropology, Complexity, Conceptual Model


Paul D'ARCY
Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu
Keywords: Climate Change, Agency, Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, Coral Reefs, Cultural Geography, Development Studies, Fisheries, Food History, History


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


Matthew GRAVES
Associate Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, France

Administrative areas: Australia, New Zealand
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia
Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Commemoration, Democracy, Historical Consciousness, History, Identity, International Relationships, Politics, Memorial Diplomacy, Cultural Geography


Carlos MONDRAGON
Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, Mexico

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Indigenous Epistemology, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Anthropology of Ontology, Cultural Geography, Ecology, First Contacts, History, Horticulture, Knowledge


Rebecca MONSON
Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Australia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia, Guadalcanal
Keywords: Sociolegal, Legal Geography, Cultural Geography, Customary Law, Gender, Land Tenure, Legal Pluralism, Political Ecology, Post-Colonialism, Settler Colonialism


Steven PERCIVAL
Independent researcher, Tiapapata Art Centre Inc., Samoa

Administrative areas: Samoa
Places: Samoa
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology, Archives, Art, Audiovisual and Media, Cultural Artefacts, Cultural Geography, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Renewal, Digital Resources


Jonathon PRASAD
, Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Body Theory, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Conceptual Model, Cultural Geography, Dance, Death and Bereavement, Diasporas, Epistemology


Joeli VEITAYAKI
Associate Professor, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Administrative areas: Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Vanuatu, Palau, Kiribati, Niue, Marshall Islands, Nauru, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Hawaii
Keywords: Climate Change, Conservation, Cultural Geography, Fisheries, Natural Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainability


Carsten WERGIN
Associate Professor, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Administrative areas: Australia, Western Australia (Australia)
Places: Australia (country), Western Australia
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Anthropology of Ontology, Anthropology Of Sciences, Anthropology of Tourism, Anti-colonial, Applied Anthropology, Applied Ethnomusicology


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Some figures...

The database of experts counts today 1236 profiles, of which 593 are publicly accessible, while 643 have chosen to remain private.

These persons have defined 747 unique keywords in which they situate their research interests and expertise.

They have also defined and described 649 'experiences' (research and teaching activities, consulting work, or applied projects) in which they have contributed.