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Reserachers working on INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGY (alphabetical order)
Katherine AIGNER Research Fellow, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Palau , Papua New Guinea , Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , French Polynesia Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cosmology , Customary Law , Environmental History , Indigenous Epistemology , Knowledge Repatriation , Material Culture , Museums , Nuclear Imperialism , Ritual And Religion , Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji , Samoa , Tonga , Vanuatu , New Zealand Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Development Studies , Education , Kava/Yaqona , Cognition , Health , Applied Anthropology , Community Development , Cultural Studies , Customary Law , Decolonisation
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology at University of Waikato, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji , New Zealand , Tonga , Samoa , Vanuatu , Cook Islands , Hawaii Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Studies , Development Studies , Diasporas , Education , Indigenous Epistemology , Post-Colonialism , Spirituality , Kava , Indigenous Substances/medicines , Identity
Pauline McKenzie AUCOIN Research Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal, CanadaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Western (Fiji)Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cosmology , Culture-nature Relations , Dance , Gender , Language Ideology , Performance , Power and Resistance , Social Studies of Knowledge , Space , Religion
Elise BARANDON PhD Student, Centre Thucydide at University Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas, FranceAdministrative areas: Fiji , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , Papua New Guinea , Australia , New Zealand Places: MelanesiaKeywords: International Relations , Island Studies , Security , Transdisciplinarity , Regionalism , Sovereignty , Pacific Studies , Ontological Security , International Security , Indigenous Epistemology
Agnes BRANDT Other staff at European Parliament, BelgiumAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Auckland (New Zealand), Wellington (New Zealand)Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Biculturalism , Climate Change , Climate Policy , Feminism , Gender , Identity , Indigenous Epistemology , Inter-ethnic Relations , Relatedness
Domenica Gisella CALABRÒ Lecturer, Gender Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Fiji Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Identity , Cultural Change , Social Change , Cultural Heritage , Sport , Gender , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Epistemology , Indigenous Politics , Engaged Anthropology
Michael Barry DAVIS Independent researcher, Sydney Environment Institute at Sydney University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , New Zealand , Solomon Islands Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Studies , Environment , Ethics , Ethnographic Encounter , Fisheries , First Contacts
Greg DVORAK Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, JapanAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Hawaii , Guam , Palau , Northern Mariana Islands , Cook Islands , Tonga , New Zealand , French Polynesia , New Caledonia , Australia Places: Micronesia, Marshall IslandsKeywords: Post-Colonialism , Self-Determination , World War II , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Studies , Critical History , Commemoration , Gender , Sexuality
Michelle DYER Postdoctoral Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, SwedenAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropology , Applied Anthropology , Environmental Anthropology , Feminism , Gender , Indigenous Epistemology , Land Tenure , Natural Resource Exploitation , Political Ecology , Resilience
A. - [Chris]tina ENGELS-SCHWARZPAUL Professor, School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology - Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Samoa , Hawaii Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Architectural Anthropology , Audiovisual and Media , Performance , Possession , Post-Colonialism , Spatial Theory , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Epistemology , Decolonisation , Exhibitions
Edmond FEHOKO PhD Student, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Tonga , New Zealand , Auckland (New Zealand)Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Models , Indigenous Epistemology , Indigenous Knowledge , Interdisciplinarity , Pacific Epistemology , Pacific Studies
Patricia FIFITA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Tonga , New Zealand , Solomon Islands , Hawaii , American Samoa , Guam Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Indigenous Epistemology , Colonialism , Biomedicine , Gender , Non Communicable Diseases , Political Economy , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Climate Change
Eleanor FOSTER PhD Student, Department of social anthropology at University of Cambridge, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Australia Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Material Culture , Museums , Colonialism , History Of Anthropology , Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Epistemology , Museum Collections
Julia FRENGS Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United StatesAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Caledonia Keywords: Cultural Studies , Cultural Production , Decolonization , Disaster , Ecology , Feminism , French Polynesia , French Overseas Territories , Francophone Literatures , Gender
Daniela HEIL Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology at University of Newcastle, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , New South Wales (Australia), Western Australia (Australia), Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Body , Chronic Illness , Cultural Change , Health , Indigenous Epistemology , Ilness Experience , Indigenous Politics , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Personhood , Medical Anthropology
Irene Karongo HUNDLEBY PhD Student, Department of Music at University of Otago, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Malaita (Solomon Islands), Solomon Islands Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Epistemology , Ethics , Indigenous Epistemology , Cultural Heritage , Music , Dance , Song / Dance , Organology
Neuhaus JULIANE Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at University of Zurich, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)Keywords: (Politics Of) Knowledge , Anthropology Of Christianity , Bureaucratization , Customary Law , Decolonisation , Diasporas , Dispute Resolution , Indigenous Epistemology , Law and Culture , Legal Pluralism
Simon KENEMA Postdoctoral Fellow, ADRAS Research Project on Small Scale Mining In Bougainville at Griffith University/ANU, AustraliaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Anthropology of Ontology , Dispute Resolution , Indigenous Epistemology , Indigenous Politics , Land Tenure , Mining , Social Change
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
Carlos MONDRAGON Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, MexicoAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Solomon Islands , Indonesia , New Caledonia , Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Indigenous Epistemology , Climate Change , Climate Policy , Anthropology of Ontology , Cultural Geography , Ecology , First Contacts , History , Horticulture , Knowledge
Moana NEPIA Assistant Professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Hawaii Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Art , Body Theory , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Creativity , Dance , Education , Indigenous Epistemology , Performance
Giacomo NERICI Administrative areas: French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropology , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Renewal , Culture-nature Relations , Decolonisation , Epistemology , Ethnic Identity , Identity , Indigeneity , Indigenous Epistemology
Dr Vaoiva (Iva) PONTON Senior Research Fellow, Pathways in Place, Faculty of Education at Griffith University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Australia , Samoa Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Contemporary Pacific , Critical Discourse Analysis , Cultural Education , Curriculum And Instruction In Teacher Education , Decolonisation , Decolonising Academia , Discourse Analysis , Epistemology , ICT In Education , Indigenous Agency
Inge RIEBE Adjunct/associate Researcher, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Australia Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Anthropology , Customary Law , Heritage Management , Indigenous Epistemology , Native Title , New Guinea , Oral History , Sorcery , Witchcraft , Paybak Killing
Jope TARAI PhD Student, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Australia Places: Australian Capital Territory, Australia (area), Melanesia, Fiji IslandsKeywords: Indigenous Politics , Indigenous Inquiry , Indigenous Epistemology , Pacific Regional Politics , Pacific Media , Pacific Relational Hermeneutics , Religion and the Media , Social Media Activism , Sociality , Politics
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
Christina TOREN Professor emeritus, Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Fiji Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Gender , Indigenous Epistemology , Kava/Yaqona , Kinship And Marriage , Personhood , Psychological Anthropology , Ritual , Ontogeny , Exchange Processes
Eilin Holtan TORGERSEN PhD Student, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Hawaii Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Cosmology , Cultural Change , Cultural Landscapes , Culture-nature Relations , Dance , Disaster , Ecology , Environmental Anthropology , Epistemology , Ethnicity
Andreea Raluca TORRE Lecturer, School of Government, Development and International Affairs at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: Fiji Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Ethnicity , Gender , Governance , Indigenous Epistemology , Labour Mobility , Migration , Population and Development , Post-Colonialism
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