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Reserachers working on LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY (alphabetical order)
Jocelyn AZNAR Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft at Universität Zürich, Unibe, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Malampa (Vanuatu)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Narratives , Literature , Language Documentation , Digital Resources , Linguistic Description , Nisvai Language , Cross-linguistic Studies , Corpus Linguistics
Giovanni BENNARDO Professor, Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Tonga Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Comparative Studies , Kinship , Knowledge , Language , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Semantics-Pragmatics , Social Network Analysis , Social Organization
Niko BESNIER Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: Tuvalu , Tonga , Wallis and Futuna , American Samoa , Australia , New Zealand , New Caledonia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Gender , Sexuality , Globalization , Body Theory , Food and Nutrition , Sport , Morality , Christianity , Conflict , Economic Anthropology
Sophie CHAVE-DARTOEN Associate Professor, Anthropology Department / Passagess UMR CNRS 5319 at Université de Bordeaux, FranceAdministrative areas: Wallis and Futuna Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Categorization , Cognitive Anthropology , Cultural Technology , Kinship , Life-cycle Exchanges , Linguistic Anthropology , Names and Naming , Ritual , Social Change
Christian DÖHLER (DOEHLER) Postdoctoral Fellow at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Western (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Province (Fly)Keywords: Environment , Language Documentation , Language Change , Language Shift , Language Socialization , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Linguistic Description , Myth , Music and Languages
Anne-Laure DOTTE , Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR 5596) at Université Lumière-Lyon 2, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia Places: Ouvéa, New CaledoniaKeywords: Austronesian Languages , French Overseas Territories , Language Change , Language Documentation , Language Policy , Language Shift , Linguistic Anthropology , Contact Linguistic
Courtney HANDMAN Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Morobe (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianity , Christianisation , Colonial Discourse , Colonialism , Communication , Language Policy , Language Ideology , Linguistic Anthropology , Mission History , Pacific Media
Volker HEESCHEN Professor emeritus, Institut für Ethnologie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, GermanyAdministrative areas: Indonesia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Contemporary Literatures , Great-men Societies , History , Human Rights , Kinship , Language Documentation , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Linguistic Description
Darja HOENIGMAN Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik province, Karawari/Arafundi, Kanjimei, MeakambutKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Ethnographic Filmmaking , Conflict , Myth , Secret Languages , Spirit Possession , Verbal Art , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Language Registers , Tok Pisin
Isabelle LEBLIC Senior Research Fellow, LACITO at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , French Polynesia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Children , Cosmology , Cultural Technology , Economic Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Fisheries , Globalization , Indigenous Political Movements , Kinship , Linguistic Anthropology
Lamont LINDSTROM Professor, Anthropology at University of Tulsa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Intellectual Property Rights , Indigenous Politics , Language Change , Linguistic Anthropology , Migration , Narratives , Personhood , Politics , Religion , Ritual
Kathleen RILEY Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, United StatesAdministrative areas: French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Language Socialization , Cultural Heritage , Gender , Environment , Anthropology Of Foodways , Bilingualism , Language Ideology , Language Shift , Sexuality
Alan RUMSEY Professor, Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Intersubjectivity , Verbal Art , Political Process , Children
Bambi SCHIEFFELIN Professor, Anthropology Department at New York University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Intersubjectivity , Language Change , Language Socialization , Linguistic Anthropology , Personhood
Gunter SENFT Professor, Language and Cognition at MPI for Psycholinguistics, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Heritage , Death and Bereavement , Development , Emotions , Landscape , Linguistic Anthropology , Navigation , Perception , Poetics , Ritual
Borut TELBAN Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SloveniaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Ritual , Personhood , Social Organization , Kinship , Linguistic Anthropology , Social Change , Christianisation , Cosmology , Poetics , Verbal Art
Nick THIEBERGER Senior Research Fellow, School of Languages and Linguistics at University of Melbourne, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Vanuatu Places: Australia (area), MelanesiaKeywords: Austronesian Languages , Language Documentation , Linguistic Anthropology , South Efate Language
Leslie VANDEPUTTE Assistant Professor, College of Education at the American University in the Emirates, United Arab EmiratesAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , New Caledonia , Shefa (Vanuatu)Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu, Port Vila, New CaledoniaKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Evolution of Language , Contact Linguistic , Digital Resources , Urbanization , Urban Identity , Nationalism , Creoles , Identity , Bislama
Jean-Christophe VERSTRAETE Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics at University of Leuven, BelgiumAdministrative areas: Australia , Queensland (Australia)Places: Australia (area), QueenslandKeywords: Language Documentation , Linguistic Description , Linguistic Anthropology , Linguistic Typology
Svenja VOELKEL Associate Professor, Institute of Language Typology at University of Mainz, GermanyAdministrative areas: Tonga , Australia Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Cognitive Anthropology , Language-Culture-Cognition , Kinship , Social Organization , Space , Possession
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