Reserachers working on


LANGUAGE


(alphabetical order)

Tomi BARTOLE
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Body Theory, Categorization, Christianisation, Complexity, Cosmology, Custom, Development, Epistemology, Feeling of Belonging, Indigenous Politics

Giovanni BENNARDO
Professor, Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, United States

Administrative areas: Tonga
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Climate Change, Comparative Studies, Kinship, Knowledge, Language, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Anthropology, Semantics-Pragmatics, Social Network Analysis, Social Organization

Dominik BRETTEVILLE
Independent researcher

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Kinship, Ritual, Language, Ceremonial discourse

Pefi KINGI
PhD Student at Victoria University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Niue, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Climate Change Migration, Community Development, Decolonisation, Development, Ethics, Human Rights, Justice, Language, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Social Change

John Dominic LYNCH
Professor emeritus, Faculty of Arts, Law and Education at University of the South Pacific

Administrative areas: Tafea (Vanuatu), Vanuatu, Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Contact Linguistic, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Language, Language Change, Language Documentation, Language Shift, Linguistic Reconstruction, Hitorical-Comparative Linguistics

John Joseph MCCAFFERY
Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland at Uniservices Consultancy Ltd, New Zealand

Administrative areas: American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Kiribati, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu
Places: Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Education, Education Policy, Language Policy, Language Shift, Language-Culture-Cognition, Polynesian Languages, Pacific Studies, Language, Literacy, Bilingual/Immersion Education

Denis MONNERIE
Professor emeritus, Laboratoire LinCS UMR 7069 CNRS Université de Strasbourg at Université de Strasbourg, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Solomon Islands
Keywords: Kinship, Language, Ceremonial discourse, Names and Naming, Performance, Political Anthropology, Resilience, Ritual Studies, Social Change, Society

Franca TAMISARI
Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Vencie, Italy

Administrative areas: Australia, Northern Territory (Australia)
Places: Australia (area), Arnhem Land, Milingimbi, Galuwin'ku, Ramingining, Gapuwiyak
Keywords: Cosmology, Dance, Education, Gender, Indigenous Politics, Kinship, Language, Ceremonial discourse, Tourism, Ritual