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Ingrid AHLGREN Curator, Oceania at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands , Federated States of Micronesia Places: Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cosmology , Cultural Heritage , Engaged Anthropology , Environment , First Contacts , Globalization , Historical Imagination , History , Intellectual Property Rights , Land Management
Chris BALLARD Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Shefa (Vanuatu), New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Southern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Western (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , Historical Consciousness , Landscape , Narratives , Historical Imagination , First Contacts , Climate Change , Disaster Studies , Drawing
John BARKER Professor, Anthropology at University of British Columbia, CanadaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Art , Christianisation , Christianity , Colonial Imagination , Conservation , Cultural Heritage , Environment , First Contacts , Forestry , Historical Imagination
Pascale BONNEMÈRE Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Papua New GuineaKeywords: Ritual , Gender , Kinship , Local/Folk Classification , First Contacts , Christianisation , Ethnobotany , Great-men Societies , Life-cycle Exchanges , Names and Naming
Keith CHAMBERS Administrative areas: Tuvalu Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Local/Folk Classification , Myth , Narratives , Social Change , Anthropological Field Records , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts
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
Laurent DOUSSET Professor, Ethnologisches Seminar at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Australia , Vanuatu , Western Australia (Australia), Malampa (Vanuatu), Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Australia (country), Western Australia, Vanuatu, Malakula, Efate, Western DesertKeywords: Uncertainty , Social Organization , Land Management , Social Change , First Contacts , Environment , Digital Resources , Indigenous Politics , Personhood , Sorcery
Sebastien GALLIOT Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Samoa , New Zealand , Tonga , Federated States of Micronesia Places: Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Technology , First Contacts , Art , Ritual , Social Change
Elisabetta GNECCHI-RUSCONE Independent researcher, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione at Università di Milano Bicocca, ItalyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Northern (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Art , Christianisation , Colonial Discourse , Cosmology , Cultural Heritage , Domestic Space , First Contacts , Identity , History , Life-cycle Exchanges
Justine GUITTONNY CAPPELLI PhD Student, French Studies at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Mission History , Mission Publishing , Christianisation , Christianity , First Contacts
Jari KUPIAINEN Principal lecturer, Media Studies at Karelia University of Applied Sciences, FinlandAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands), Western (Solomon Islands)Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Art , Audiovisual and Media , Agency , Christianisation , Cognitive Anthropology , Colonial Discourse , Complexity , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Production
Sylvie LARGEAUD-ORTEGA Associate Professor, English literature and culture at University of French Polynesia, French PolynesiaAdministrative areas: French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anti-colonial , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Colonial Literature , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Studies , Engaged Anthropology , First Contacts , Francophone Literatures , Gender
Bernd LEICHT Independent researcherAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anti-colonial , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , First Contacts , Museums , Post-Colonialism
Billie Jane LYTHBERG Research Fellow, Mira Szaszy Research Centre for Maori and Pacific Economic Development at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cosmology , Cultural Heritage , Diasporas , Economic Anthropology , First Contacts , Local Nomenclature , Material Culture , Museums , Natural Resources
Grant MCCALL Other staff, Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Fiji , French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Age and Aging , Coconut , Bureaucratization , Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Inter-ethnic Relations , Kinship
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
Simonne PAUWELS Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Fiji , Indonesia , Maluku (Indonesia), Nusa Tenggara Timur (Indonesia)Places: Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Lau archipelago, Taveuni, LakebaKeywords: Climate Change , Environment , First Contacts , Fisheries , Gender , Governance , Kinship , Ritual , Social Organization , Social Change
Anthony PICKLES Assistant Professor, Department of African Studies at University of Birmingham, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Big-manship , Categorization , Complexity , Conceptual Model , Corruption , Economic Anthropology , Economy and Finance , Exchanges , First Contacts , History
Max QUANCHI Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Fiji , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , Australia , New Caledonia Places: Australia (area), MelanesiaKeywords: Colonialism , First Contacts , Pacific Studies as Field of Study , Photography , Visualization and Representation
Lisa RENARD Postdoctoral Fellow, Art history department / Fyssen Foundation at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Wellington (New Zealand), Bay of Plenty (New Zealand), Gisborne (New Zealand), Auckland (New Zealand), Hawke's Bay (New Zealand), Nelson (New Zealand), Northland (New Zealand), Waikato (New Zealand)Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Material Culture , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Exchanges , Museums , Property , Natural Resources , Mediation , Kinship , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , International Relationships
Amiria SALMOND Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Gisborne (New Zealand)Places: Polynesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Anthropology of Ontology , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Transformation , Digital Resources , First Contacts , Intellectual Property Rights , Kinship , Law and Culture , Museums
Tobias SCHWOERER Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Morobe (Papua New Guinea)Places: Papua New GuineaKeywords: Conflict , Colonial Discourse , Social Change , State , Sorcery , Regional History , Mining , Land Dispute , Forestry , First Contacts
Martin SOUKUP Associate Professor, Institute of Communication at Charles University, Czech RepublicAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: First Contacts , Sustainability , Social Change , Conservation , Audiovisual and Media , Visualization and Representation
Hilke THODE-ARORA Curator, Oceania at Museum Fuenf Kontinente, GermanyAdministrative areas: Niue , Samoa , New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Indigenous Agency , Inter-ethnic Relations , Heritage Management , Ethnicity , Cultural Change , Transnationalism , Women's Associations , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Museums
I'u TUAGALU Other staff, Learning Advisor at Auckland University of Technology, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Samoa , New Zealand Places: Polynesia, Samoa, TongaKeywords: Cognitive Anthropology , First Contacts , Exchanges , Cosmology , Colonial Literature , Christianity , Christianisation , Myth , Personhood , Ritual Studies
Andrey TUTORSKI Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology at Moscow State University, Russian FederationAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu , Madang (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Miklouho-Maclay , First Contacts , Historical Consciousness , History , Narratives , Myth
Marja VAN TILBURG Senior Lecturer, Department of History at University of Groningen, NetherlandsPlaces: PolynesiaKeywords: First Contacts , Gender , History , Historical Imagination , Identity , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations
Fanny Wonu VEYS Curator at National Museum of World Cultures, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: Tonga , New Zealand , Australia Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Art , Exhibitions , First Contacts , Heritage , Indigenous Christianities , Material Culture , Mission History , Museums , Tapa , Visual Anthropology
Dariusz ZDZIECH Adjunct/associate Researcher, President at Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Research Association, PolandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Kiribati , Hawaii Places: Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Citizenship , Coconut , Development , Food and Nutrition , First Contacts , Governance , History , Identity , Library
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