Reserachers working on


LAND MANAGEMENT


(alphabetical order)

Ingrid AHLGREN
Curator, Oceania at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, United States

Administrative areas: Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia
Places: Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cosmology, Cultural Heritage, Engaged Anthropology, Environment, First Contacts, Globalization, Historical Imagination, History, Intellectual Property Rights, Land Management

Astrid ANDERSON
Other staff, Library of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Oslo, Norway

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Vokeo
Keywords: Adoption, Kinship, Place, Land Management, Landscape, Symbolism, Body, Library

Quentin ATKINSON
Associate Professor, School of Psychology at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Environment, Land Management, Social Network Analysis, Morality, Ritual

Valerie BOLL
Independent researcher, Anthropology at South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Northern Territory (Australia), Queensland (Australia)
Places: Australia (area), Australia (country)
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Climate Change, Cognitive Anthropology, Conservation, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Environment, Ethnobotany, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Land Management

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

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

Laurent DOUSSET
Professor, Honorary professor and independent researcher at University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Australia, Vanuatu, Western Australia (Australia), Malampa (Vanuatu), Northern Territory (Australia)
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Australia (country), Western Australia, Vanuatu, Malakula, Efate, Western Desert
Keywords: Uncertainty, Social Organization, Land Management, Social Change, First Contacts, Environment, Digital Resources, Indigenous Politics, Personhood, Sorcery

Elodie FACHE
Research Fellow, UMR SENS (Savoirs, Environnement et Sociétés / Knowledge, Environment and Societies) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Administrative areas: Australia, Northern Territory (Australia), Fiji, Eastern (Fiji)
Places: Australia (area), Australia (country), Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, Fiji Islands, Lomaiviti archipelago, Gau, Lau archipelago, Cicia, Kadavu archipelago, Kadavu, Vanuatu, New Caledonia
Keywords: Environment, Development, Sustainability, Conservation, Land Management, Sea Management, Small-scale Fisheries, Marine Protected Areas, Governance, Climate Change

Karolina KANIA
Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy at Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Sud (New Caledonia)
Places: Melanesia, New Caledonia, Iles des Pins
Keywords: Tourism, Indigenous Tourism, Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Agency, Indigenous Economies, Indigenous Political Movements, Inter-ethnic Relations, Land Management, Land Ownership, Decolonisation

Claire LEVACHER
PhD Student, Sociology and Anthropology at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Development, Governance, Indigenous Politics, Land Management, Mining, Public Policies, Social Change, Social Movement

Ralph REGENVANU
Independent researcher, Parliament of Vanuatu at Parliament of Vanuatu, Vanuatu

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Malampa (Vanuatu), Penama (Vanuatu), Sanma (Vanuatu), Shefa (Vanuatu), Tafea (Vanuatu), Torba (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Port Vila
Keywords: Agenda Building, Art, Bislama, Bureaucratization, Class, Community Development, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Corruption, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Policy

Eilin Holtan TORGERSEN
PhD Student, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, Norway

Administrative areas: Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Cosmology, Cultural Change, Cultural Landscapes, Culture-nature Relations, Dance, Disaster, Ecology, Environmental Anthropology, Epistemology, Ethnicity