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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


Grant MCCALL
Other staff, Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, Australia

Administrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Fiji, French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Age and Aging, Coconut, Bureaucratization, Colonial Imagination, Cultural Heritage, First Contacts, Identity, Intellectual Property Rights, Inter-ethnic Relations, Kinship


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


Christina TOREN
Professor emeritus, Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Gender, Indigenous Epistemology, Kava/Yaqona, Kinship And Marriage, Personhood, Psychological Anthropology, Ritual, Ontogeny, Exchange Processes


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Some figures...

The database of experts counts today 1234 profiles, of which 592 are publicly accessible, while 642 have chosen to remain private.

These persons have defined 747 unique keywords in which they situate their research interests and expertise.

They have also defined and described 648 'experiences' (research and teaching activities, consulting work, or applied projects) in which they have contributed.