Australia
The World Factbook: Background: :: Prehistoric settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia at least 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession of the east coast in the name of Great Britain (all of Australia was claimed as British territory in 1829 with the creation of the colony of Western Australia). Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they fe...read more [Source: The World Factbook ] Wikipedia: Australia i/əˈstreɪljə, ɒ-, -iə/,[10][11] officially the Commonwealth of Australia,[12] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
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Expertise (alphabetical order)
Lindy ALLEN Research Fellow, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology at Museums Victoria, AustraliaKeywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Museums , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Visual Anthropology , Material Culture , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Cultural Technology , Applied Anthropology , Agency
Salhia BEN-MESSAHEL Professor, Department of English at University of Toulon, FranceKeywords: Diasporas , Environment , Historical Imagination , History , Identity , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Landscape , Literature , Narratives , Place
Niko BESNIER Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, NetherlandsKeywords: Gender , Sexuality , Globalization , Body Theory , Food and Nutrition , Sport , Morality , Christianity , Conflict , Economic Anthropology
Valerie BOLL Independent researcher, Anthropology at South Australian Museum, Adelaide, AustraliaKeywords: Anthropological Field Records , Climate Change , Cognitive Anthropology , Conservation , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Environment , Ethnobotany , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Land Management
Camilla BORREVIK PhD Student, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, NorwayKeywords: Climate Change , Climate Policy , Climate Change Migration , Conservation , Cultural Change , Democracy , Diplomacy , Environment , Epistemology , Globalization
Roser BOSCH I DARNÉ PhD Student, Humanities Department & University Institute of Culture at Pompeu Fabra University, SpainKeywords: Agency , Colonial Discourse , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Studies , History , Identity , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Material Culture , Museums , Post-Colonialism
Ruci Mafi BOTEI PhD Student, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiKeywords: Agency , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Cutural Change , Epistemology , Pacific Regional Politics , Pacific Studies , World Heritage
John BURTON Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at University of Queensland, AustraliaKeywords: Development , Social Change , Social Impact Analysis , Social Mapping , Poverty , Mining , Identity , Social Organization , Population and Development
Philip CASS Senior Lecturer, Communication Studies at Unitec, New ZealandKeywords: Newspaper History , Mission Publishing , Language Policy , Development Media , Religion and the Media , Media And National Identity , Pacific Media , Middle East Media , Pacific Diasporic Media , Journalism
Mylene CHARON Other staff, Héritage/s at CY Cergy-Paris University, France
Joseph Martin CHEER Professor, Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University, JapanKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Applied Anthropology , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Politic , Cultural Geography , Cultural Change , Development , Heritage , Interdisciplinarity , Land Tenure
Ali CLARK Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United KingdomKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
Diane COLMAN Lecturer, School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, AustraliaKeywords: Development
Ian CONRICH Professor, Visual and Material Culture at University of Vienna, AustriaKeywords: Film Studies , Audiovisual and Media , Media And National Identity , Popular Culture , Post-Colonialism , Visual Anthropology , Material Culture , Museums , Multiculturalism , Anthropology of Tourism
Emmanuelle CRANE Adjunct Professor, History, Media studies at Sorbonne Paris 4, FranceKeywords: Engaged Anthropology , Ethnographic Filmmaking , French Overseas Territories , Gender Violence , Justice , Media And National Identity , Pacific Media , Post-Colonialism , Violence , Sexual Assaults
Paul D'ARCY Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Agency , Anthropology , Conflict Resolution , Coral Reefs , Cultural Geography , Development Studies , Fisheries , Food History , History
Carine DAVID Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New CaledoniaKeywords: Climate Change Migration , Colonial Politic , Customary Law , Elections , Environment , Environmental Jurisprudence of Supreme Courts , France’s Charter For The Environment , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Institution , Intergenerational Equity
Kirsten Davies DAVIES Lecturer, Dept of Environmental Sciences & Law School at Macquarie University, AustraliaKeywords: Social-ecological System , Population and Development , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Climate Change , Cultural Change , Ecology , Higher Education , Heritage Management , Governance
Michael Barry DAVIS Independent researcher, Sydney Environment Institute at Sydney University, AustraliaKeywords: Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Studies , Environment , Ethics , Ethnographic Encounter , Fisheries , First Contacts
Jessica DE LARGY HEALY , Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: Audiovisual and Media , Cosmology , Art , Digital Resources , Kinship , Material Culture , Mobile Telephony , Religion and the Media , Ritual Studies
Fabiana DIMPFLMEIER Research Fellow, DILASS at 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara, ItalyKeywords: Anthropology , Anthropological Field Records , Archives , Colonialism , Inter-racial Relations , Nationalism , New Guinea , Pacific Studies , Post-Colonialism , History Of Anthropology
Laurent DOUSSET Independent researcher, also part-time lecturer at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandKeywords: Uncertainty , Social Organization , Land Management , Social Change , First Contacts , Environment , Digital Resources , Indigenous Politics , Personhood , Sorcery
Francoise DUSSART Professor, Department of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Connecticut, United StatesKeywords: Art , Ceremonial discourse , Gender , Health , Chronic Illness , Christianity , Citizenship , Religion and the Media , Land Tenure
Greg DVORAK Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, JapanKeywords: Post-Colonialism , Self-Determination , World War II , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Studies , Critical History , Commemoration , Gender , Sexuality
Ute EICKELKAMP Independent researcher, AustraliaKeywords: Anthropology of Ontology , Children , Art , Christianity , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Change , Culture-nature Relations , Dreams , Landscape , Personhood
Elodie FACHE Research Fellow, UMR SENS (Savoirs, Environnement et Sociétés / Knowledge, Environment and Societies) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, FranceKeywords: Environment , Development , Sustainability , Conservation , Land Management , Sea Management , Small-scale Fisheries , Marine Protected Areas , Governance , Climate Change
Viviane FAYAUD Independent researcher, Centre d'histoire des sociétés, des sciences et des conflits at Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, FranceKeywords: Art , Cultural Studies , Visualization and Representation , Photography , Nationalism , Memorial Diplomacy , Media And National Identity , Imagology , Drawing , Feeling of Belonging
Alison FLEMING Independent researcher, European Programme at Fridtjof Nansen Institute, NorwayKeywords: Climate Change , Cultural Heritage , Tourism , Sustainability , Social-ecological System , Resilience , Pacific Regional Politics , Natural Resources , Land Tenure , Interdisciplinarity
Barbara GLOWCZEWSKI Senior Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS, Collège de France and EHESS, FranceKeywords: Agency , Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology of Ontology , Audiovisual and Media , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Disaster , Memory , Political Anthropology , Ritual , Sand-Drawing
Matthew GRAVES Associate Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, FranceKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Commemoration , Democracy , Historical Consciousness , History , Identity , International Relationships , Politics , Memorial Diplomacy , Cultural Geography
Claudia GUALTIERI Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities (Dept. of Studies in Language Mediatiton and Intercultural Communication) at The University of Milan, ItalyKeywords: Rights Of The Unborn And Future Generations , Anti-colonial , Cultural Studies , Spatial Theory , Postcolonial Literatures , Neo-Colonialism , Interdisciplinarity , Human Rights , Heritage , Colonial Discourse
Daniela HEIL Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology at University of Newcastle, AustraliaKeywords: Body , Chronic Illness , Cultural Change , Health , Indigenous Epistemology , Ilness Experience , Indigenous Politics , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Personhood , Medical Anthropology
Graeme HUMBLE Associate Professor, School of Theology at Pacific Adventist University, Papua New GuineaKeywords: Christianisation , Christianity , Cultural Heritage , Fisheries , Identity , Mission History , Myth , Narratives , Religion , Ritual
Takiora INGRAM Independent researcher, FRIENDS OF THE LAGOON/PACIFIC PLANNING &RESEARCH at Non-Government Organization, Cook IslandsKeywords: Climate Policy , Development , Gender Violence , Mining and its Discontents , Political Anthropology , Regional History , Seascape , Social Impact Analysis , Sustainable Tourism , World Heritage
Pefi KINGI PhD Student at Victoria University, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change Migration , Community Development , Decolonisation , Development , Ethics , Human Rights , Justice , Language , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , Social Change
Krishna KOTRA Lecturer, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at The University of the South Pacific, VanuatuKeywords: Climate Change , Water , Water And Wastewater Treatment And Reuse , Pedagogy , Micro Plastcis , Ocean Acidification , Environment , Development , Migration , Dispossession
Ruth KROLZIG , Institue of Ethnology at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, GermanyKeywords: Tourism , Kinship , Relatedness , Urban Identity , Cosmology , Perception , Anthropology of Ontology , Knowledge , Law and Culture , Spirituality
Géraldine LE ROUX Lecturer, Department of Ethnology at Université de Bretagne Occidentale , FranceKeywords: Art , Colonial Imagination , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Diasporas , Identity , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Politics , Museums , Performance , Post-Colonialism
Michael LIGALIGA Associate Professor, Intercultural Peacebuilding and Pacific Studies at Brigham Young University Hawaii, United StatesKeywords: Peace And Conflict, Indigenous Peacebuilding, Vābuilding, Decolonizing Pedagogy , Conflict , Conflict Management , Peace, Indigenous Peacebuilding,
Stephanie LUSBY Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, AustraliaKeywords: Class , Community Development , Dispute Resolution , Family Planning , Feminism , Gender , Gender Based Violence , Inequality , Interdisciplinarity , Intergenerational Equity
Payal Nandini MAHARAJ PhD Student, Social Sciences at The University of Queensland, AustraliaKeywords: , Colonialism , Cosmology , Gender , Global Health , Indigenous Knowledge , Medical Anthropology , Pacific Studies , Pacific Relational Hermeneutics , Transdisciplinarity
Amy K. MCLENNAN Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at University of Oxford, United KingdomKeywords: Anthropological Field Records , Biomedicine , Social-ecological System , Political Ecology , Narratives , Mining , Interdisciplinarity , Globalization , Health , Food and Nutrition
Marika MOISSEEFF Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: Cosmology , Death and Bereavement , Emotions , Gender , Health , Identity , Indigenous Politics , Justice , Kinship , Landscape
Rebecca MONSON Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Sociolegal , Legal Geography , Cultural Geography , Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Legal Pluralism , Political Ecology , Post-Colonialism , Settler Colonialism
Yasmine MUSHARBASH Senior Lecturer, Anthropology at University of Sydney, AustraliaKeywords: Emotions , Personhood , Senses , Social Change , Body Theory , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Neo-Colonialism , Domestic Space , Monsters , Death and Bereavement
Lyndon ORMOND-PARKER Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at The University of Melbourne, AustraliaKeywords: Archives , Audiovisual and Media , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Policy , Digital Technologies , Indigenous Agency , Intellectual Property Rights , Local Economies , Museums , Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Melica OUENNOUGHI Independent researcher, Phd of Anthropology of the University of Vincennes-Paris VIII at University Vincennes Paris VIII, FranceKeywords: Anthropology , Colonial Politic , Community Development , Cultural Heritage , Culture-nature Relations , Ethnobotany , Forced Migration , Funerary Practices , Indigenous Mobility , Migration
Nicolas PETERSON Professor, School of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Economic Anthropology , Social Change , Social Organization , Ritual , Photography , Land Tenure , Native Title , State , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations
Martin PRÉAUD Postdoctoral Fellow, LAIOS, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceKeywords: Indigenous Political Movements , Indigenous Politics , Law and Culture , Colonial Discourse , International Relationships , Governance , Exchanges , Landscape , Ritual , Performance
Geir Henning PRESTERUDSTUEN Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Bergen, NorwayKeywords: Economic Anthropology , Ethnicity , Gender , Gender Violence , Health , Monsters , Post-Colonialism , Christianity , Body , Violence
Michael Clifford QUINNELL Adjunct/associate Researcher, Cultural Environments QMS at Queensland Museum, AustraliaKeywords: Material Culture , Museums , Rock Art , Torres Strait , Typology , Textiles / Fibre Arts , Tapa , Native Title , Indo-Pacific Prehistory , Ethnographic Encounter
Catherine RIS Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at University of New Caledonia, New CaledoniaKeywords: Development Studies , Education Policy , Employment , Ethnicity , French Overseas Territories , Population and Development , Public Policies , Social Justice Policy , Youth , Mining
Ornella SEIGNEURY PhD Student, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at University of New Caledonia, New CaledoniaKeywords: Comparative Studies , Sustainable Development , Public Policies , Constitutional Environmental Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Individual Rights To Environmental Protection , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Rights Of The Unborn And Future Generations , Environmental Jurisprudence of Supreme Courts , Intergenerational Equity
Foale SIMON Senior Lecturer, College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, AustraliaKeywords: Political Ecology , Political Economy , Small-scale Fisheries , Social Impact Analysis , Marine Biodiversity , Logging , Land Tenure , Epistemology , Environment , Ethnobotany
Rachel SMITH Lecturer, Anthropology at University of Aberdeen, United KingdomKeywords: Economic Anthropology , Work , Life-cycle Exchanges , Kinship , Land Tenure , Labour Mobility , Christianity , Ritual And Religion , Local Economies , Kava/Yaqona
Suzanne SPUNNER Research Fellow, Indigenous Studies Unit, Centre for Health Equity at The Univeristy of Melbourne, AustraliaKeywords: Agency , Art , Archives , Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Exhibitions , Indigenous Agency , Intellectual Property Rights , Memory , Oral History
Victoria STEAD Postdoctoral Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia
Ann SULLIVAN Associate Professor, Maori Studies, Te Wananga o Waipa at University of Auckland, New ZealandKeywords: Cultural Studies , Democracy , Identity , Inter-ethnic Relations , Political Process , Post-Colonialism , Race / Racism , Self-Determination , Urban Identity , Urbanization
Karen SYKES Professor, Social Anthropology at University of Manchester, United KingdomKeywords: Migration , Education , Egalitarianism , Ethics , Morality , Urban , Democracy , Economic Anthropology , Death and Bereavement , Age and Aging
Franca TAMISARI Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Vencie, ItalyKeywords: Cosmology , Dance , Education , Gender , Indigenous Politics , Kinship , Language , Ceremonial discourse , Tourism , Ritual
Serge TCHERKÉZOFF Professor emeritus, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie and ANU CAP CHL at Aix Marseille Uni+CNRS+EHESS--Australian Nat Uni, France
Katerina TEAIWA Senior Lecturer, HoD of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Phosphate , Dance , Mining and its Discontents , Landscape , Cultural Studies , Cultural Transformation , Resilience , Environment , Pacific Studies as Field of Study , Globalization
Annick THOMASSIN PhD Student, Department of Anthropology/Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at McGill University/Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Bureaucratization , Fisheries , Neo-Colonialism , Political Ecology , Political Economy , Property , Self-Determination , Social-ecological System , Natural Resources , Torres Strait
Anke TONNAER Lecturer, Department of Anthropology Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, NetherlandsKeywords: Tourism , Performance , Ritual , Post-Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Exchanges , Globalization , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Intersubjectivity , Anthropological Fieldwork
Celine TRAVESI Postdoctoral Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceKeywords: Anthropology Of Knowing , Indigenous Cosmopolitics , Techniques , Senses , Human-environment Relations , Saltwater People , Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Tourism
Fanny Wonu VEYS Curator at National Museum of World Cultures, NetherlandsKeywords: Art , Exhibitions , First Contacts , Heritage , Indigenous Christianities , Material Culture , Mission History , Museums , Tapa , Visual Anthropology
Gabriele WEICHART Senior Lecturer, Social and Cultural Anthropology (Department of Social Research) at University of Vienna, AustriaKeywords: Architectural Anthropology , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Change , Disaster , Food and Nutrition , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Material Culture , Memory
Carsten WERGIN Associate Professor, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, GermanyKeywords: Audiovisual and Media , Climate Change , Conflict Management , Conservation , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Culture-nature Relations , Decolonisation , Diasporas , Environmental Anthropology , Global Health
Paige WEST Professor, Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University , United StatesKeywords: Cultural Anthropology , Environment , Dispossession , Climate Change , Development , Migration , The Imagination , Tourism , Anthropology Of Sciences
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Languages
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec
Administrative Areas Ashmore and Cartier Islands (Territory) Australian Capital Territory (Territory) Coral Sea Islands (Territory) New South Wales (State) Northern Territory (Territory) Queensland (State) South Australia (State) Tasmania (State) Victoria (State) Western Australia (State)
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