Reserachers working on


CULTURE-NATURE RELATIONS


(alphabetical order)

Pauline McKenzie AUCOIN
Research Fellow, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Administrative areas: Fiji, Western (Fiji)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cosmology, Culture-nature Relations, Dance, Gender, Language Ideology, Performance, Power and Resistance, Social Studies of Knowledge, Space, Religion

Ruci Mafi BOTEI
PhD Student, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Administrative areas: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Agency, Culture-nature Relations, Customary Law, Cutural Change, Epistemology, Pacific Regional Politics, Pacific Studies, World Heritage

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

Kirsten Davies DAVIES
Lecturer, Dept of Environmental Sciences & Law School at Macquarie University, Australia

Administrative areas: Sanma (Vanuatu), Vanuatu, Australia
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Vanuatu, New South Wales
Keywords: Social-ecological System, Population and Development, Culture-nature Relations, Customary Law, Climate Change, Cultural Change, Ecology, Higher Education, Heritage Management, Governance

Marlène DÉGREMONT
PhD Student, Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement GRED (UMR 220) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, New Caledonia

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, French Polynesia
Places: New Caledonia, Polynesia
Keywords: Conservation, Marine Biodiversity, Governance, Environment, Public Policies, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Globalization, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Culture-nature Relations

Emily DONALDSON
PhD Student, Anthropology at McGill University, Canada

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Landscapes, Culture-nature Relations, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Land Tenure, Spirituality, Tourism, Heritage Management, Heritage

Ute EICKELKAMP
Independent researcher, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Central Australia, South Australia
Keywords: Anthropology of Ontology, Children, Art, Christianity, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Change, Culture-nature Relations, Dreams, Landscape, Personhood

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

Stéphanie LECLERC-CAFFAREL
Contractual researcher, Anthropology Department, National Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian Institution, United States

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Agency, Art, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Museums, Body, Ceremonial discourse, Colonial Imagination, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture-nature Relations, Custom

Melica OUENNOUGHI
Independent researcher, Phd of Anthropology of the University of Vincennes-Paris VIII at University Vincennes Paris VIII, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Australia
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology, Colonial Politic, Community Development, Cultural Heritage, Culture-nature Relations, Ethnobotany, Forced Migration, Funerary Practices, Indigenous Mobility, Migration

Jude PHILP
Curator, Macleay Museum at Sydney University Museums, Australia

Places: Torres Strait, Western Province (Fly), National Capital District, Central
Keywords: Agency, Christianity, Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Culture-nature Relations, History, Indigenous Christianities, Mission History, Museums, Photography

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

Carsten WERGIN
Associate Professor, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Administrative areas: Australia, Western Australia (Australia)
Places: Australia (country), Western Australia
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Anthropology of Ontology, Anthropology Of Sciences, Anthropology of Tourism, Anti-colonial, Applied Anthropology, Applied Ethnomusicology