Reserachers working on


RITUAL AND RELIGION


(alphabetical order)

Katherine AIGNER
Research Fellow, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), French Polynesia
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cosmology, Customary Law, Environmental History, Indigenous Epistemology, Knowledge Repatriation, Material Culture, Museums, Nuclear Imperialism, Ritual And Religion, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Thorgeir KOLSHUS
Professor, Department of social anthropology at University of Oslo, Norway

Administrative areas: Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Politics, Christianity, Gender, Mission History, Ritual And Religion, Diversity, Ethnicity

Hee Sook LEE-NIINIOJA
Independent researcher

Administrative areas: Indonesia
Keywords: Architectural Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Interdisciplinarity, Monuments, Ritual And Religion, Rock Art, Semiotics, Visualization and Representation

Diane LOSCHE
Senior Lecturer, Art&Design at University of New South Wales, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Anthropological Fieldwork, Archives, Art, Colonial Literature, Gender, Museums, Ritual And Religion, History, Historical Imagination

Eric SILVERMAN
Research Fellow, Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Art, Body, Gender, Globalization, Identity, Masculinities, Material Culture, Modernity, Museums, Mortuary Rites

Rachel SMITH
Lecturer, Anthropology at University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Shefa (Vanuatu), Penama (Vanuatu), Fiji, New Zealand, Australia
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Port Vila, Epi, Pentecost, Shepherd Islands, Tongoa, Espiritu Santo, Fiji Islands
Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Work, Life-cycle Exchanges, Kinship, Land Tenure, Labour Mobility, Christianity, Ritual And Religion, Local Economies, Kava/Yaqona