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Reserachers working on CUSTOM (alphabetical order)
Ron ADAMS Senior Research Fellow, Graduate Research Centre at Victoria University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Tafea (Vanuatu)Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Christianisation , Cultural Change , Custom , Colonialism , Decolonisation , Epistemology , Historical Consciousness , History , Memory
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
Jacopo BARON Administrative areas: Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Anthropology , Art , Custom , Ethnographic History , History Of Anthropology , Material Culture , Memory And Transmission , Gardens , Ritual , Wonder
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
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
Ali CLARK Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Australia , Kiribati , Marshall Islands Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
Marlène DÉGREMONT PhD Student, Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement GRED (UMR 220) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, New CaledoniaAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , French Polynesia Places: New Caledonia, PolynesiaKeywords: Conservation , Marine Biodiversity , Governance , Environment , Public Policies , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , Globalization , Applied Anthropology , Cultural Heritage , Culture-nature Relations
Colin FILER Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Conservation , Custom , Development , Environment , Forestry , Governance , Indigenous Knowledge , Land Tenure , Mining , Political Ecology
Alan JONES Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Austronesian Languages , Emotion Terminology , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Anthropology of Ontology , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Reconstruction , Myth , Morality , Narratives , Custom
Stephanie LAWSON Professor, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Tonga , Samoa Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Custom , Democracy , Globalization , Governance , Inter-ethnic Relations , International Relationships , Pacific Regional Politics , Politics , Post-Colonialism , Race / Racism
Stéphanie LECLERC-CAFFAREL Contractual researcher, Anthropology Department, National Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian Institution, United StatesAdministrative areas: Fiji Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Agency , Art , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Museums , Body , Ceremonial discourse , Colonial Imagination , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Culture-nature Relations , Custom
Oliver LUEB Curator at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, GermanyKeywords: Agency , Anthropological Fieldwork , Cultural Change , Cultural Renewal , Cultural Transformation , Custom , Identity , Material Culture , Museums , Performance
Ralph REGENVANU Independent researcher, Parliament of Vanuatu at Parliament of Vanuatu, VanuatuAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Malampa (Vanuatu), Penama (Vanuatu), Sanma (Vanuatu), Shefa (Vanuatu), Tafea (Vanuatu), Torba (Vanuatu)Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Port VilaKeywords: Agenda Building , Art , Bislama , Bureaucratization , Class , Community Development , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Corruption , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Policy
Hélena REGIUS Independent researcherAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Custom , Indigenous Christianities , Material Culture , Missiology , Museums , Textiles / Fibre Arts
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Niue , Palau , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
Johanna Louise WHITELEY PhD Student, Anthropology at London School of Economics and Political Science, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Isabel (Solomon Islands), Solomon Islands Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Land Tenure , Landscape , Local/Folk Classification , Mission History , Matrilineal Kinship , Custom , Cosmology , Anthropology of Ontology , Religion
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