Reserachers working on


ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK


(alphabetical order)

Ron ADAMS
Senior Research Fellow, Graduate Research Centre at Victoria University, Australia

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Tafea (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Christianisation, Cultural Change, Custom, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Epistemology, Historical Consciousness, History, Memory

Julie ADAMS
Senior Research Fellow, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, New Zealand, Vanuatu
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Museums, Material Culture, Art, Anthropological Fieldwork

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

Rochelle BAILEY
Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Vanuatu, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Australia, Fiji, Tonga
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Agency, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Policy, Migration, Health, Kinship, Labour Mobility

Rainer F. BUSCHMANN
Professor, History at California State University Channel Islands, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonialism, Ethnographic Encounter, Historical Consciousness, Historical Imagination, History, Knowledge, Museums

Laurence Marshall CARUCCI
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University, United States

Administrative areas: Marshall Islands
Places: Marshall Islands
Keywords: Adoption, Age and Aging, Anthropological Fieldwork, Body, Christianity, Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Literature, Colonialism

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

Heidi DAHLES
Professor, Griffith Institute of Tourism(GIFT) at Griffith University, Australia

Administrative areas: Jawa Tengah (Indonesia), Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Bali (Indonesia), Nusa Tenggara Barat (Indonesia), Fiji
Keywords: Anthropology of Tourism, Anthropological Fieldwork, Economic Anthropology

Eveline DÜRR
Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Administrative areas: New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Anthropology of Tourism, Colonial Discourse, Cultural Change, Eco-anthropology, Ethnographic Encounter, Globalization, Identity, Indigenous Mobility

Elsa FAUGERE
Research Fellow, Ecodevelopment at French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology of Knoweldge, Economic Anthropology, Environment, Exchanges, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Sciences

Carolina GALLARINI
PhD Student at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Political Anthropology, Art, Anthropological Fieldwork, Decolonisation

Matteo GALLO
Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Université d'Aix-Marseille, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Youth, Political Culture, Memory, Cultural Heritage, Colonial Imagination, Audiovisual and Media, Witchcraft, Music, Knowledge Repatriation

David GLORY
Postdoctoral Fellow at CREDO, France

Administrative areas: Cook Islands
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Coastal Erosion, Conservation, Development, Disaster, Environment, Outer Island Development, Resilience And Indigenous Communities, Social Change

Barbara GLOWCZEWSKI
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS, Collège de France and EHESS, France

Administrative areas: Australia, French Polynesia
Places: Australia (area), Polynesia
Keywords: Agency, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Audiovisual and Media, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Disaster, Memory, Political Anthropology, Ritual, Sand-Drawing

Volker HEESCHEN
Professor emeritus, Institut für Ethnologie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Administrative areas: Indonesia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Contemporary Literatures, Great-men Societies, History, Human Rights, Kinship, Language Documentation, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Description

Franziska A. HERBST
Research Fellow, Department of Palliative Medicine at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Biomedicine, Medical Technology, Health, Ilness Experience, Relatedness, Personhood, Chronic Illness, Body, Agency

Amanda KEARNEY
Professor, Department of Anthropology at San Diego State University, United States

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Knowing, Anthropology of Ontology, Applied Anthropology, Colonial Process, Cultural Change, Decolonisation, Indigeneity, Indigenous Knowledge, Politics Of Knowing And Not Knowing

Simon KENEMA
Postdoctoral Fellow, ADRAS Research Project on Small Scale Mining In Bougainville at Griffith University/ANU, Australia

Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Anthropology of Ontology, Dispute Resolution, Indigenous Epistemology, Indigenous Politics, Land Tenure, Mining, Social Change

Kun-hui KU
Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Borneo, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Customary Law, Democracy, Ethnicity, Indigenous Political Movements, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Law and Culture, Leadership

Susanne KUEHLING
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Regina, Canada

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Emotions, Exchanges, Gender, Kula, Senses, Place

Don KULICK
Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Cultural Change, Language Shift, Violence, Labor Migration, Language Socialisation, Christianity, Children, Language Contact, Disability

Claudia LEDDERUCCI
Contractual researcher, Culture, Politica e Società at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Island Studies, Anthropological Fieldwork, Citizenship, Colonial Discourse, Colonialism, Contemporary Pacific, Militarism

Diane LOSCHE
Senior Lecturer, Art&Design at University of New South Wales, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Anthropological Fieldwork, Archives, Art, Colonial Literature, Gender, Museums, Ritual And Religion, History, Historical Imagination

Oliver LUEB
Curator at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Germany

Keywords: Agency, Anthropological Fieldwork, Cultural Change, Cultural Renewal, Cultural Transformation, Custom, Identity, Material Culture, Museums, Performance

Lisa MCDONALD
PhD Student, Sainsbury Research Unit at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Intellectual Property Rights, Material Culture, Urbanization, Visual Anthropology

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

Alice SERVY
Associate Professor, SAGE Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe at University of Strasbourg, France

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, French Polynesia
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Health, Sexuality, Gender, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Family Planning, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sex Workers, Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Sexual Assaults

Adrian TANNER
Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology at Memorial University, Canada

Administrative areas: Fiji, Eastern (Fiji)
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Colonialism, Domestic Space, Horticulture, Land Tenure, Myth, Native Title, Regional History, Ritual, Subsistence Economy

Borut TELBAN
Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Ritual, Personhood, Social Organization, Kinship, Linguistic Anthropology, Social Change, Christianisation, Cosmology, Poetics, Verbal Art

Tamatoa TEPUHIARII
PhD Student, Institute of Geography at University of Hamburg, Germany

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Activism, Anthropological Fieldwork, Colonialism, Decolonization, Gender, Indigenization, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Issues, Pacific Studies, Resilience

Hilke THODE-ARORA
Curator, Oceania at Museum Fuenf Kontinente, Germany

Administrative areas: Niue, Samoa, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Indigenous Agency, Inter-ethnic Relations, Heritage Management, Ethnicity, Cultural Change, Transnationalism, Women's Associations, Textiles / Fibre Arts, Museums

Frank THOMAS
Senior Lecturer, Pacific Studies, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Administrative areas: Fiji, Kiribati
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Archaeobotany, Austronesian Prehistory, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Landscapes, Development Studies, Ethnobiology, Heritage Management, Landscape, Local Ecological Knowledge

Anke TONNAER
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Tourism, Performance, Ritual, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Exchanges, Globalization, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Intersubjectivity, Anthropological Fieldwork

Christina TOREN
Professor emeritus, Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Gender, Indigenous Epistemology, Kava/Yaqona, Kinship And Marriage, Personhood, Psychological Anthropology, Ritual, Ontogeny, Exchange Processes

Leslie VANDEPUTTE
Assistant Professor, College of Education at the American University in the Emirates, United Arab Emirates

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Shefa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Port Vila, New Caledonia
Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Evolution of Language, Contact Linguistic, Digital Resources, Urbanization, Urban Identity, Nationalism, Creoles, Identity, Bislama

Daniela VAVROVA
Adjunct/associate Researcher, The Cairns Institute and the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Australia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Applied Anthropology, Audiovisual and Media, Photography, Senses, Visualization and Representation, Sensory Ethnography

Jerome WHITFIELD
, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Biomedicine, Sorcery, Religion, Medical Anthropology, Mediation, Development, Death and Bereavement, Medical Research, Mortuary Rites

Laura ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI
Independent researcher, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Age and Aging, Anthropological Fieldwork, Big-manship, Gambling, Gender Violence, Inequality, Mining, Nationalism, Social Impact Analysis, Politics Of Culture