Reserachers working on


MORTUARY RITES


(alphabetical order)

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

Frederick H. DAMON
Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Virginia, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Australia (area), Papua New Guinea
Keywords: Austronesian Prehistory, Climate Change, Complexity, Death and Bereavement, Ecology, Economic Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Exchanges, Kula, Mortuary Rites

David LIPSET
Professor at University of Minnesota, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Body, Canoes, Class, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cosmology, Customary Law, Masculinities, Mortuary Rites, Personhood, Mobile Telephony

Nathan MCALLISTER
PhD Student, Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Kula, Kastom, Education, Christianity, Climate Change, Cutural Change, Law and Culture, Mining, Mortuary Rites, Care

Eric SILVERMAN
Research Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Art, Body, Gender, Globalization, Identity, Masculinities, Material Culture, Modernity, Museums, Mortuary Rites

Frederique VALENTIN
Research Fellow, UMR 7041 at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Tonga, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Mortuary Rites, Food and Nutrition, Migration

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