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Reserachers working on KINSHIP (alphabetical order)
Astrid ANDERSON Other staff, Library of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Oslo, NorwayAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, VokeoKeywords: Adoption , Kinship , Place , Land Management , Landscape , Symbolism , Body , Library
Petra Maria AUTIO Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and cultural anthropology at University of Helsinki, FinlandAdministrative areas: Kiribati , Guam , Palau , New Zealand Places: MicronesiaKeywords: Social Organization , Dance , Custom , Kinship , Narratives , Social Differentiation , Language Ideology , Migration , Resilience , Colonial Discourse
Doris BACALZO Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)Places: Papua New GuineaKeywords: Children , Customary Law , Gender , Indigenous Politics , Kinship , Migration , Mining , Political Ecology , Political Economy , Engaged Anthropology
Rochelle BAILEY Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Vanuatu , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Kiribati , Australia , Fiji , Tonga Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology Of Policy , Migration , Health , Kinship , Labour Mobility
Tomi BARTOLE Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SloveniaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Body Theory , Categorization , Christianisation , Complexity , Cosmology , Custom , Development , Epistemology , Feeling of Belonging , Indigenous Politics
Bettina BEER Professor, Ethnologisches Seminar at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Mining , Kinship , Land Dispute , Gender , Senses , Social Change , History
Stefanie BELHARTE Independent researcher, ---, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Sandaun (Papua New Guinea), Gulf (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Papua New GuineaKeywords: Human Ecology , Ethnobiology , Food and Nutrition , Material Culture , Kinship , Migration , Oral History , Cosmology
Giovanni BENNARDO Professor, Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Tonga Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Comparative Studies , Kinship , Knowledge , Language , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Semantics-Pragmatics , Social Network Analysis , Social Organization
Ola Gunhildrud BERTA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of social anthropology at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands Places: MicronesiaKeywords: Kinship , Christianity , Cultural Change , Custom , Customary Law , Economic Anthropology , Land Ownership , Law and Culture , Mission History , Political Anthropology
Pascale BONNEMÈRE Senior Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Papua New GuineaKeywords: Ritual , Gender , Kinship , Local/Folk Classification , First Contacts , Christianisation , Ethnobotany , Great-men Societies , Life-cycle Exchanges , Names and Naming
Dominik BRETTEVILLE Independent researcherAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , Vanuatu Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Kinship , Ritual , Language , Ceremonial discourse
Mia BROWNE PhD Student, Center for Pacific Studies at University of St. Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands)Places: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, PolynesiaKeywords: Knowledge , Gardens , Ethnobotany , Christianity , Gender , Conservation , Development , Natural Resources , World Heritage , Kinship
Mark William BUSSE Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Western (Papua New Guinea)Places: Papua New GuineaKeywords: Economic Anthropology , Intellectual Property Rights , Museums , Kinship , Material Culture
Sophie CHAVE-DARTOEN Associate Professor, Anthropology Department / Passagess UMR CNRS 5319 at Université de Bordeaux, FranceAdministrative areas: Wallis and Futuna Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Categorization , Cognitive Anthropology , Cultural Technology , Kinship , Life-cycle Exchanges , Linguistic Anthropology , Names and Naming , Ritual , Social Change
Tony CROOK Senior Lecturer, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Province (Fly)Keywords: Knowledge , Secrecy , Ritual , Kinship , Gender , Horticulture , Mining , Climate Change , Pacific Regional Politics , Development
Jessica DE LARGY HEALY , Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: Australia Places: Australia (area), Arnhem Land, Victoria and Bass Strait IslandsKeywords: Audiovisual and Media , Cosmology , Art , Digital Resources , Kinship , Material Culture , Mobile Telephony , Religion and the Media , Ritual Studies
Françoise DOUAIRE-MARSAUDON Professor emeritus, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: Tonga , Wallis and Futuna Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Body Theory , Justice , Kinship , Indigenous Politics , Christianity , Mission History , Regional History , Gender
Laurent DOUSSET Professor, Ethnologisches Seminar at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Australia , Vanuatu , Western Australia (Australia), Malampa (Vanuatu), Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Australia (country), Western Australia, Vanuatu, Malakula, Efate, Western DesertKeywords: Uncertainty , Social Organization , Land Management , Social Change , First Contacts , Environment , Digital Resources , Indigenous Politics , Personhood , Sorcery
Richard FEINBERG Professor, Anthropology at Kent State University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Papua New Guinea Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Kinship , Narratives , Political Process , Development , History , Language-Culture-Cognition , Religion , Voyaging
Emma GILBERTHORPE Professor, Global Development at University of East Anglia, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Development , Cultural Transformation , Engaged Anthropology , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Kinship , Extractive Industry - Mining And Oil
Michael GODDARD Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu Places: MelanesiaKeywords: History , Kinship , Law and Culture , Cosmology , Social Organization
Alex GOLUB Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Mining , Kinship , Political Anthropology
Volker HEESCHEN Professor emeritus, Institut für Ethnologie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, GermanyAdministrative areas: Indonesia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Contemporary Literatures , Great-men Societies , History , Human Rights , Kinship , Language Documentation , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Linguistic Description
Ruth KROLZIG , Institue of Ethnology at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, GermanyAdministrative areas: Australia , Northern Territory (Australia), Papua New Guinea , Milne Bay (Papua New Guinea)Places: Australia (area), Arnhem Land, MelanesiaKeywords: Tourism , Kinship , Relatedness , Urban Identity , Cosmology , Perception , Anthropology of Ontology , Knowledge , Law and Culture , Spirituality
James LEACH Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Art , Cultural Heritage , Ecology , Ethnobotany , Intellectual Property Rights , Kinship , Material Culture , Personhood , Property , Creativity
Isabelle LEBLIC Senior Research Fellow, LACITO at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , French Polynesia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Children , Cosmology , Cultural Technology , Economic Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Fisheries , Globalization , Indigenous Political Movements , Kinship , Linguistic Anthropology
Craig LIND Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Malampa (Vanuatu), Shefa (Vanuatu)Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Gender , Intersubjectivity , Landscape , Memory , Migration , Mission History , Museums , Perception , Personhood , Religion
Anne-Sylvie MALBRANCKE Adjunct/associate Researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Kinship , Social Change , Development , Christianisation , Great-men Societies , Gender Violence
Grant MCCALL Other staff, Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Fiji , French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Age and Aging , Coconut , Bureaucratization , Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Inter-ethnic Relations , Kinship
Martino MICELI PhD Student, Centre Norbert Elias at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Youth , Work , Employment , Social Differentiation , Training Formation , Mining Labour , Nationhood , Masculinities , Kinship , Prison
Marika MOISSEEFF Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: Australia Places: Australia (area), South AustraliaKeywords: Cosmology , Death and Bereavement , Emotions , Gender , Health , Identity , Indigenous Politics , Justice , Kinship , Landscape
Denis MONNERIE Professor emeritus, Laboratoire LinCS UMR 7069 CNRS Université de Strasbourg at Université de Strasbourg, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , Solomon Islands Keywords: Kinship , Language , Ceremonial discourse , Names and Naming , Performance , Political Anthropology , Resilience , Ritual Studies , Social Change , Society
Simonne PAUWELS Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Fiji , Indonesia , Maluku (Indonesia), Nusa Tenggara Timur (Indonesia)Places: Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Lau archipelago, Taveuni, LakebaKeywords: Climate Change , Environment , First Contacts , Fisheries , Gender , Governance , Kinship , Ritual , Social Organization , Social Change
Lisa RENARD Postdoctoral Fellow, Art history department / Fyssen Foundation at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Wellington (New Zealand), Bay of Plenty (New Zealand), Gisborne (New Zealand), Auckland (New Zealand), Hawke's Bay (New Zealand), Nelson (New Zealand), Northland (New Zealand), Waikato (New Zealand)Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Material Culture , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Exchanges , Museums , Property , Natural Resources , Mediation , Kinship , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , International Relationships
Amiria SALMOND Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Gisborne (New Zealand)Places: Polynesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Anthropology of Ontology , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Transformation , Digital Resources , First Contacts , Intellectual Property Rights , Kinship , Law and Culture , Museums
Almut SCHNEIDER Contractual researcher, Institue of Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Western Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Milne Bay (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Kinship , Social Change , Ritual , Exchanges , Social Organization , Land Tenure , Gender , Life-cycle Exchanges , Plant Domestication , Social-ecological System
Rachel SMITH Lecturer, Anthropology at University of Aberdeen, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Shefa (Vanuatu), Penama (Vanuatu), Fiji , New Zealand , Australia Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Port Vila, Epi, Pentecost, Shepherd Islands, Tongoa, Espiritu Santo, Fiji IslandsKeywords: Economic Anthropology , Work , Life-cycle Exchanges , Kinship , Land Tenure , Labour Mobility , Christianity , Ritual And Religion , Local Economies , Kava/Yaqona
Franca TAMISARI Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Vencie, ItalyAdministrative areas: Australia , Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Australia (area), Arnhem Land, Milingimbi, Galuwin'ku, Ramingining, GapuwiyakKeywords: Cosmology , Dance , Education , Gender , Indigenous Politics , Kinship , Language , Ceremonial discourse , Tourism , Ritual
Borut TELBAN Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SloveniaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Ritual , Personhood , Social Organization , Kinship , Linguistic Anthropology , Social Change , Christianisation , Cosmology , Poetics , Verbal Art
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
Svenja VOELKEL Associate Professor, Institute of Language Typology at University of Mainz, GermanyAdministrative areas: Tonga , Australia Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Cognitive Anthropology , Language-Culture-Cognition , Kinship , Social Organization , Space , Possession
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