Reserachers working on


INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE


(alphabetical order)

Penner ANGELINA
, Bergen Pacific Studies; ECOPAS at University of Bergen, Norway

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Anthropology of Ontology, Development Studies, Gender Based Violence, Gender, Globalization, Indigenous Knowledge, Kastom, Pacific Studies

Apo APOROSA
Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Development Studies, Education, Kava/Yaqona, Cognition, Health, Applied Anthropology, Community Development, Cultural Studies, Customary Law, Decolonisation

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

Edmond FEHOKO
PhD Student, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Tonga, New Zealand, Auckland (New Zealand)
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Models, Indigenous Epistemology, Indigenous Knowledge, Interdisciplinarity, Pacific Epistemology, Pacific Studies

Colin FILER
Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Conservation, Custom, Development, Environment, Forestry, Governance, Indigenous Knowledge, Land Tenure, Mining, Political Ecology

Jacqueline HAZEN
PhD Student, Anthropology at New York University, United States

Administrative areas: Federated States of Micronesia, Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia), Guam
Places: Micronesia
Keywords: Cultural Production, Mediation, Language Ideology, Diasporas, Materiality, Cultural Heritage, Performance, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Property Rights

Lea Lani KINIKINI KAUVAKA
Independent researcher, Pacific Community at EU PacTVET project, Tonga

Administrative areas: Tonga, Hawaii, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Cook Islands
Keywords: Resilience, Indigenous Knowledge, Forced Migration, Subaltern Bodies, Māui Genealogies, Body Theory, Coconut Oil, Race, Settlerhood

Matthias KOWASCH
Professor, Institute of Secondary Teacher Education at University College of Teacher Education Styria, Austria

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Conflict, Development, Education, Governance, Indigenous Political Movements, Identity, Land Tenure, Mining, Post-Colonialism, Political Ecology

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

Patrick NUNN
Professor, Sustainability Research Centre at University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

Administrative areas: Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia
Places: Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
Keywords: Climate Change, Coastal Erosion, Cultural Change, Human Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge, Kava, Landscape, Myth, Religion And The Environment, Sustainable Development

Steven PERCIVAL
Independent researcher, Tiapapata Art Centre Inc., Samoa

Administrative areas: Samoa
Places: Samoa
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology, Archives, Art, Audiovisual and Media, Cultural Artefacts, Cultural Geography, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Renewal, Digital Resources