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The World Factbook: Background: :: The eastern half of the island of New Guinea - second largest in the world - was divided between Germany (north) and the UK (south) in 1885. The latter area was transferred to Australia in 1902, which occupied the northern portion during World War I and continued to administer the combined areas until independence in 1975. A nine-year secessionist revolt on the island of Bougainville ended in 1997 after claiming some 20,000 lives. :: ...read more [Source: The World Factbook] Wikipedia: Papua New Guinea (PNG; /ˈpæpə njuː ˈɡɪniː/ PAP-pə-new-GHIN-ee; Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Pap...read more [Source: Wikipedia]

Expertise (alphabetical order)

Reed ADAM
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Keywords: Institution, Law and Culture, Urban, Migration

Bryant ALLEN
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Dept of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Land Ownership, Millenarianism, Oral History, World War II, Disaster, Climate Change, Ethnobotany, Health

Barbara Anne ANDERSEN
Lecturer, School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand

Keywords: Development, Education, Health, Social Change, Youth, Class, Biomedicine, Health Workers, Housing, Security

Astrid ANDERSON
Other staff, Library of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Oslo, Norway

Keywords: Adoption, Kinship, Place, Land Management, Landscape, Symbolism, Body, Library

Chris BALLARD
Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Cultural Heritage, Historical Consciousness, Landscape, Narratives, Historical Imagination, First Contacts, Climate Change, Disaster Studies, Drawing

Dani BARRINGTON
Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering at University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Keywords: Water Resources, Sanitation, Development Studies, Participation, Health, Hygiene, Menstruation, Toilets, Water

Tomi BARTOLE
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

Keywords: Body Theory, Categorization, Christianisation, Complexity, Cosmology, Custom, Development, Epistemology, Feeling of Belonging, Indigenous Politics

Bettina BEER
Professor, Ethnologisches Seminar at University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Keywords: Mining, Kinship, Land Dispute, Gender, Senses, Social Change, History

Pascale BONNEMÈRE
Senior Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Ritual, Gender, Kinship, Local/Folk Classification, First Contacts, Christianisation, Ethnobotany, Exchanges, Great-men Societies, Life-cycle Exchanges

Richard Michael ('Mike') BOURKE
Associate Professor, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Agriculture, Climate Change, Farming Systems, Food and Nutrition, Gardens, Horticulture, Subsistence Economy, Techniques, Taro, Sweet Potato

John BURTON
Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at University of Queensland, Australia

Keywords: Development, Social Change, Social Impact Analysis, Social Mapping, Poverty, Mining, Identity, Social Organization, Population and Development

Mark William BUSSE
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Intellectual Property Rights, Museums, Kinship, Material Culture

Priya CHATTIER
Research Fellow, State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Development, Gender, Gender Violence, Politics, Poverty, Sexuality, Society

Diane COLMAN
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, Australia

Keywords: Development

Roberta COLOMBO DOUGOUD
Curator, Oceania Departement at Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland

Keywords: Anthropology, Art, Exhibitions, Museums, Material Culture, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Change, Post-Colonialism

Andrew James CONNELLY
PhD Student, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, Australia

Jennifer CORRIN
Professor, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at T C Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Australia

Keywords: Customary Law, Legal Pluralism, Law and Culture, Human Rights, Dispute Resolution, Land Tenure

Ludovic COUPAYE
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology at University College London, United Kingdom

Keywords: Agency, Agriculture, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Art, Body Theory, Categorization, Cognitive Anthropology, Complexity, Conceptual Model

John COX
Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, Australia

Keywords: Christianity, Citizenship, Class, Climate Change, Cultural Change, Democracy, Development, Development Media, Economic Anthropology, Economy and Finance

Kathryn CREELY
Librarian/Archivist, Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology at University of California San Diego, United States

Keywords: Digital Resources, Anthropological Field Records, Photography

Tony CROOK
Senior Lecturer, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Keywords: Knowledge, Secrecy, Ritual, Kinship, Gender, Horticulture, Mining, Climate Change, Pacific Regional Politics, Development

Paul D'ARCY
Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Climate Change, Agency, Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, Coral Reefs, Cultural Geography, Development Studies, Fisheries, Food History, History

Cláudio DA SILVA
PhD Student, The Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE) at Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences - University of Porto(FPCEUP), Portugal

Keywords: Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Knowledge, Learning And Teaching, Orality And Oral Traditions

Steffen DALSGAARD
Associate Professor, Technologies in Practice at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Keywords: Democracy, Social Change, Politics, Bureaucratization

Frederick H. DAMON
Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Virginia, United States

Keywords: Austronesian Prehistory, Climate Change, Complexity, Death and Bereavement, Ecology, Economic Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Exchanges, Kula, Mortuary Rites

Melissa DEMIAN
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Keywords: Colonial Discourse, Development, Engaged Anthropology, Justice, Law and Culture

Dario DI ROSA
PhD Student, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Historical Consciousness

Thomas DICK
PhD Student, School of Arts and Social Science at Southern Cross University, Australia

Keywords: Water Music, Agency, Audiovisual and Media, Colonial Discourse, Cultural Production, Creativity, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Development Media, Diasporas, Ethnographic Filmmaking

Keith DIXON
Senior Lecturer, Te Rāngai Umanga me te Ture at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, New Zealand

Keywords: Accounting, Critical History, Migration, Diasporas, Mining and its Discontents, Public Services, Indigenous Inquiry

SERGE DUNIS
Independent researcher, retired University Professor at University of the French Pacific, French Polynesia

Keywords: Myth, Pre-European Settlement, Genetics, Archaeology, Prehistory

Yannick ESSERTEL
Contractual researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Christianisation, Conceptual Model, Colonialism, Missiology, Indigenous Christianities

Christiane FALCK
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethnologisches Institut at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Keywords: Anthropology Of Christianity, Human-environment Relations, Cosmology, Gender, Religion, Personhood, Ontology

Richard FEINBERG
Professor, Anthropology at Kent State University, United States

Keywords: Kinship, Narratives, Political Process, Development, History, Language-Culture-Cognition, Religion, Voyaging

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

Keywords: Conservation, Custom, Development, Environment, Forestry, Governance, Indigenous Knowledge, Land Tenure, Mining, Political Ecology

Dylan GAFFNEY
Assistant Professor, School of Archaeology at University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Carolina GALLARINI
PhD Student at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Art, Anthropological Fieldwork, Decolonisation

Emma GILBERTHORPE
Senior Lecturer, International Development at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Keywords: Development, Cultural Transformation, Engaged Anthropology, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Kinship, Extractive Industry - Mining And Oil

Elisabetta GNECCHI-RUSCONE
Independent researcher, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione at Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy

Keywords: Art, Christianisation, Colonial Discourse, Cosmology, Cultural Heritage, Domestic Space, First Contacts, Identity, History, Life-cycle Exchanges

Michael GODDARD
Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia

Keywords: History, Kinship, Law and Culture, Cosmology, Social Organization

Alex GOLUB
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United States

Keywords: Mining, Kinship, Political Anthropology

Sargam GOUNDAR
PhD Student, School of Geography at University of Otago, New Zealand

Keywords: Climate Change Migration, Pacific Studies, Sustainable Development, Perceptions, Geography, Sustainable Livelihoods

Ian L GRANT
Senior Lecturer, Intercultural Studies at Alphacrucis College, Australia

Keywords: Religion, Big-manship, Leadership, Cultural Change, Contextualisation, Cultural Studies, Political Anthropology, Worldview, Christianity, Missiology

Courtney HANDMAN
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, United States

Keywords: Christianity, Christianisation, Colonial Discourse, Colonialism, Communication, Language Policy, Language Ideology, Linguistic Anthropology, Mission History, Pacific Media

S R Jan HASSELBERG
Independent researcher, Norway

Keywords: Photography, Visual Anthropology, History, Oro, Milne Bay

Jordan HAUG
PhD Student, Anthropology Department at University of California San Diego, United States

Keywords: Mining and its Discontents, Mining, Morality, Christianity, Political Anthropology, Myth, Leadership, Inequality, Egalitarianism, Epistemology

Franziska A. HERBST
Research Fellow, Department of Palliative Medicine at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany

Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Biomedicine, Medical Technology, Health, Ilness Experience, Relatedness, Personhood, Chronic Illness, Body, Agency

Elfriede HERMANN
Professor, Institut für Ethnologie at University of Goettingen, Germany

Keywords: Climate Change, Migration, Ethnicity, Gender, Social Movement, Ethnopsychology, Cultural Transformation, Transculturation

Karin Louise HERMES
PhD Student, American Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Keywords: Youth, Urban Identity, Social Movement, Social Change, Self-Determination, Nationalism, Migration, Interethnic Relations, Identity, Ethnicity

Anna-Karina HERMKENS
Lecturer, Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia

Keywords: Art, Mission History, Personhood, Religion, Violence, Gender, Gender Violence, Material Culture, Tapa

Geoffrey HOBBIS
Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies and Journalism at University of Groningen, Netherlands

Keywords: Digital Technologies, Material Culture, Technology

Stephanie HOBBIS
Assistant Professor, Sociology of Development and Change Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands

Keywords: State, Political Anthropology, Food and Nutrition, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Bureaucratization, Christianity, Gender Violence, Digital Technologies, Peace And Conflict, Development

Darja HOENIGMAN
Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Conflict, Myth, Secret Languages, Spirit Possession, Verbal Art, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Elisabeth HOLLAND
Professor, Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development at University of the South Pacific, Nauru

Keywords: Climate Change, Oceania, Ocean Acidification, Pacific Studies, Sustainable Development, Sustainability

Graeme HUMBLE
Associate Professor, School of Theology at Pacific Adventist University, Papua New Guinea

Keywords: Christianisation, Christianity, Cultural Heritage, Fisheries, Identity, Mission History, Myth, Narratives, Religion, Ritual

Jerry Keith JACKA
Associate Professor, Anthropology at University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Keywords: Development, Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change

Sergio JARILLO
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Anthropology at American Museum of Natural History, United States

Keywords: Material Culture, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Climate Change, Christianity, Art, Cosmology, Cutural Change, Emotions, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Museums

Dan JORGENSEN
Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology at University of Western Ontario, Canada

Keywords: Cosmology, Natural Resources, Political Ecology, Social Organization, Ritual, Christianity, Myth, Regional History, Mining, Mobile Telephony

Tarcisius KABUTAULAKA
Associate Professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United States

Keywords: Development Studies, Development, Logging, Pacific Regional Politics, Pacific Studies, Political Economy, Foreign Policy, Natural Resources

Christian KAUFMANN
Independent researcher, Sainsbury Research Unit at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Keywords: Art, Cultural Technology, Cultural Heritage

Verena KECK
Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Keywords: Colonial Discourse, Health, Migration, Personhood, Religion, Social Change, Age and Aging, Identity

Wolfgang KEMPF
Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Goettingen, Germany

Keywords: Climate Change, Christianity, Diasporas, Biographic Research, Memory, Religion, Performance, Migration, Power and Resistance

Magdalena KITTELMANN
PhD Student, Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Christianisation, Colonialism

Gina KOCZBERSKI
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Planning and Geography at Curtin University, Australia

Keywords: Agriculture, Migration, Resilience, Social Change, Subsistence Economy, Urbanization, Rural Development

Krishna KOTRA
Lecturer, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at The University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu

Keywords: 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, Germany

Keywords: Tourism, Kinship, Relatedness, Urban Identity, Cosmology, Perception, Anthropology of Ontology, Knowledge, Law and Culture, Spirituality

Susanne KUEHLING
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Regina, Canada

Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Emotions, Exchanges, Gender, Kula, Senses, Place

I-Chang KUO
PhD Student, Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Mining Labour, Gender, Ethnicity, Inequality, Labour Mobility, Work, Place-making, History, Food and Nutrition, Ethnographic Filmmaking

James LEACH
Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Art, Cultural Heritage, Ecology, Ethnobotany, Intellectual Property Rights, Kinship, Material Culture, Personhood, Property, Creativity

Rena LEDERMAN
Professor, Anthropology Department at Princeton University, United States

Keywords: Exchanges, Economic Anthropology, Political Process, Gender, Morality, Social Organization, Sorcery, Time, Ritual, Property

Pierre Jean-Claude LEMONNIER
Professor emeritus, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Cultural Technology, Ritual Studies, Cognitive Anthropology, Gender

Erna LILJE
Curator, Curatorial Department at Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen , Netherlands

Keywords: Material Culture, Materiality, Museums, Agency, Indigenous Agency, Techniques, Textiles / Fibre Arts

Roger Ivar LOHMANN
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at Trent University, Canada

Keywords: Christianisation, Conflict Management, Cosmology, Death and Bereavement, Dreams, Ethnopsychology, Language Documentation, Memory, Myth, Religion

Stephanie LUSBY
Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, Australia

Keywords: Class, Community Development, Dispute Resolution, Family Planning, Feminism, Gender, Gender Based Violence, Inequality, Interdisciplinarity, Intergenerational Equity

Mary Noelene MACDONALD
Professor emeritus, Religious Studies Department at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, United States

Keywords: Christianity, Religion, Environment

Fraser MACDONALD
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology Programme at Waikato University, New Zealand

Keywords: Anthropology Of Christianity, Religion, Music, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Melanesia

Martha MACINTYRE
Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne, Australia

Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Extractive Industry - Mining And Oil, Feminism, Gender, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Land Tenure, Medical Anthropology, Milne Bay

Michael MAIN
PhD Student, School of Culture, History & Language at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Cultural Change, Development, Social Change, Violence, Weapons, Mining and its Discontents, Materiality, Language Change, Indigenous Agency, Indigenous Peoples Rights

Anne-Sylvie MALBRANCKE
Adjunct/associate Researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

Keywords: Kinship, Social Change, Development, Christianisation, Great-men Societies, Gender Violence

Jo MIDDLETON
Research Fellow, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme; Dept. Primary Care and Public Health, and NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neglected Tropical Diseases at University of Sussex; Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom

Keywords: Conservation, Biomedicine, Colonialism, Ecology, Ethnobotany, Global Health, Logging, Medical Anthropology, Medical Research, New Guinea

Anke MOESINGER
PhD Student, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany at University of Bremen, Germany

Keywords: Climate Change, Natural Resources, Social Change, Political Ecology, Perception, Social Organization, Small-scale Fisheries, Local Ecological Knowledge, Local/folk Taxonomy, Coral Reef Ecology

Carlos MONDRAGON
Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, Mexico

Keywords: Indigenous Epistemology, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Anthropology of Ontology, Cultural Geography, Ecology, First Contacts, History, Horticulture, Knowledge

Rebecca MONSON
Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Sociolegal, Legal Geography, Cultural Geography, Customary Law, Gender, Land Tenure, Legal Pluralism, Political Ecology, Post-Colonialism, Settler Colonialism

Nathalie MRGUDOVIC
Lecturer, School of Languages and Social sciences at Aston University, United Kingdom

Keywords: Self-Determination, Political Process, International Relationships, Post-Colonialism, Regional Integration, French Overseas Territories, Sub-regionalism

Hermann MUECKLER
Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Vienna, Austria

Keywords: Historical Imagination, Mission History, Post-Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Colonialism, Conflict Management, Cultural Studies, History, Material Culture, Peace And Conflict

Don NILES
, Acting Director at Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, Papua New Guinea

Ton OTTO
Professor, Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark

Keywords: Cultural Change, Religious Change, Social Change, Agency

Aaron PEARCE
PhD Student, Humanities at University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Keywords: Governance, Political Process, Sub-regionalism, Nationalism, Political Culture, Post-Colonialism, Social Organization, Development

Anthony PICKLES
Lecturer, School of International Development at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Keywords: Big-manship, Categorization, Complexity, Conceptual Model, Corruption, Economic Anthropology, Economy and Finance, Exchanges, First Contacts, History

Max QUANCHI
Research Fellow, Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at University of Queensland/Deakin University, Australia

Keywords: Photography, Historical Imagination

Max QUANCHI
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Keywords: Colonialism, First Contacts, Pacific Studies as Field of Study, Photography, Visualization and Representation

Michael Clifford QUINNELL
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Cultural Environments QMS at Queensland Museum, Australia

Keywords: Material Culture, Museums, Rock Art, Torres Strait, Typology, Textiles / Fibre Arts, Tapa, Native Title, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Ethnographic Encounter

Julia RATZMANN
Other staff, Pacific Information Desk at Centre for Mission, Partnership and Development, Germany

Keywords: Post-Colonialism, Christianisation, Conflict, French Overseas Territories, Land Dispute, Logging, Mining, Museums, Nuclear Issues, Tourism

Hans REITHOFER
Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Goettingen, Germany

Keywords: Christianisation, Development, Engaged Anthropology, Political Ecology, Sorcery, Social Change, Ritual, Religion, Mining, Big-manship

Amélie ROUSSILLON
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands

Keywords: Anthropology Of Christianity, Archives, Art, Colonial Imagination, Exhibitions, Material Culture, Museums, Mission History, Provenance Research

Alan RUMSEY
Professor, Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Intersubjectivity, Verbal Art, Political Process, Children

JC SALYER
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department and Human Rights Program at Barnard College, Columbia University, United States

Keywords: Anthropology, Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Human Rights, Law and Culture, Migration

Richard SCAGLION
Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh, United States

Keywords: Conflict, Law and Culture, Ecology, Complexity

Bambi SCHIEFFELIN
Professor, Anthropology Department at New York University, United States

Keywords: Christianisation, Intersubjectivity, Language Change, Language Socialization, Linguistic Anthropology, Personhood

Almut SCHNEIDER
Contractual researcher, Institue of Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Keywords: Kinship, Social Change, Ritual, Exchanges, Social Organization, Land Tenure, Gender, Life-cycle Exchanges, Plant Domestication, Social-ecological System

Penelope SCHOEFFEL
Associate Professor, Centre for Samoan Studies at National University of Samoa, Samoa

Keywords: Applied Anthropology, Development Studies

Ryan SCHRAM
Lecturer, Anthropology at University of Sydney, Australia

Keywords: Epistemology, Exchanges, Ethics, Environment, Ethnicity, Ethnomethodology

Tobias SCHWOERER
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Keywords: Violence, Conflict, Colonial Discourse, Social Change, State, Sorcery, Regional History, Mining, Land Dispute, Forestry

Gunter SENFT
Professor, Language and Cognition at MPI for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Death and Bereavement, Development, Emotions, Landscape, Linguistic Anthropology, Navigation, Perception, Poetics, Ritual

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

Keywords: Art, Body, Gender, Globalization, Identity, Masculinities, Material Culture, Modernity, Museums, Mortuary Rites

Foale SIMON
Senior Lecturer, College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Australia

Keywords: Political Ecology, Political Economy, Small-scale Fisheries, Social Impact Analysis, Marine Biodiversity, Logging, Land Tenure, Epistemology, Environment, Ethnobotany

Emilka SKRZYPEK
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Keywords: Mining, Stakeholder Engagement, Knowledge, Development Ideology, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, Resource Extraction, Just Transition

Martin SOUKUP
Associate Professor, Institute of Communication at Charles University, Czech Republic

Keywords: First Contacts, Sustainability, Social Change, Conservation, Audiovisual and Media, Visualization and Representation

Victoria STEAD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia

Jessica Anne STOCKDALE
, Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom

Marilyn STRATHERN
Professor emeritus, Social Anthropology at Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Keywords: Gender, Law and Culture, Visualization and Representation, Urbanization, Social Organization, Personhood, Life-cycle Exchanges, Exchanges, Colonial Discourse

Thomas STRONG
Lecturer, Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland

Keywords: Witchcraft, Body, Cosmology, Gender, Medical Anthropology, Personhood, Mary Douglas

Glenn SUMMERHAYES
Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology at Otago University, New Zealand

Keywords: New Guinea

Edgar SUTER
Research Fellow, Institut für Linguistik at Universität zu Köln, Germany

Keywords: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Reconstruction, Papuan Languages, Language Classification

Karen SYKES
Professor, Social Anthropology at University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Keywords: Migration, Education, Egalitarianism, Ethics, Morality, Urban, Democracy, Economic Anthropology, Death and Bereavement, Age and Aging

Tuomas TAMMISTO
Independent researcher, Social and cultural anthropology at University of Helsinki, Finland

Keywords: Environment, Exchanges, Land Tenure, Logging, Place, Political Ecology, Statehood, Work, Conservation, Corporations

Almah TARARIA
PhD Student, State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Gender, Women's Leadership

Borut TELBAN
Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

Keywords: Ritual, Personhood, Social Organization, Kinship, Linguistic Anthropology, Social Change, Christianisation, Cosmology, Poetics, Verbal Art

Jaap TIMMER
Associate Professor, Discipline of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University, Australia

Keywords: Political Ecology, Religion, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Applied Anthropology, Contemporary Pacific, Cultural Change, Development, Sovereignty, Material Culture

Andrey TUTORSKI
Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology at Moscow State University, Russian Federation

Keywords: Miklouho-Maclay, First Contacts, Historical Consciousness, History, Narratives, Myth

Yvonne UNDERHILL-SEM
Associate Professor, Development Studies at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Keywords: Body, Development, Markets, Political Ecology, Feminsm

Upolu Luma VAAI
Senior Lecturer, HoD Theology and Ethics Department at Pacific Theological College, Fiji

Keywords: Christianity, Pacific Relational Hermeneutics, Relational Theology, Relational Ethics, Pacific Epistemology, Climate Change, Colonialism, Economy And Justice

Daniela VAVROVA
Adjunct/associate Researcher, The Cairns Institute and the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Australia

Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Applied Anthropology, Audiovisual and Media, Photography, Senses, Visualization and Representation, Sensory Ethnography

Joeli VEITAYAKI
Associate Professor, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Keywords: Climate Change, Conservation, Cultural Geography, Fisheries, Natural Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainability

Craig Alan VOLKER
Adjunct Professor, The Cairns Institute and the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Australia

Keywords: Austronesian Languages, Cultural Studies, Education, Language Contact, Linguistic Description, Papua New Guinea, Translation, Pidgin-creole Languages, Nalik, Tok Pisin

Juerg WASSMANN
Professor emeritus, Institute of Anthropology, at Heidelberg University, Germany

Keywords: Space, Time, Personhood, Cognitive Anthropology

Frank WEIGELT
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, Germany

Keywords: Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonialism, Conflict, Conflict Management, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage

James WEINER
Contractual researcher at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Land Tenure, Myth, Place, Social-ecological System, Native Title, Verbal Art, Law and Culture

Paige WEST
Professor, Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University , United States

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Environment, Dispossession, Climate Change, Development, Migration, The Imagination, Tourism, Anthropology Of Sciences

Elisabeth WORLICZEK
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Change and Sustainability at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Coastal Erosion, Cultural Change, Disaster, Interdisciplinarity, Migration, Mining and its Discontents, Natural Hazards, Social Change

Maria WRONSKA-FRIEND
Adjunct/associate Researcher, College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, Australia

Keywords: Material Culture, Cultural Change, Technology, Art, Canoes, Voyaging, Museums, Textiles

Heather YOUNG-LESLIE
Associate Professor, Office of the Vice-President, Research at University of Alberta, Canada

Keywords: Biomedicine, Development, Gender, Health, Health Workers, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Textiles / Fibre Arts, Body Theory, Mothering, Maternalisms

René ZIMMER
Associate Professor, CNEP Centre des Nouvelles Etude sur le Pacifique at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia


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    Administrative Areas

    Central (Province)
    Chimbu (Province)
    East New Britain (Province)
    East Sepik (Province)
    Eastern Highlands (Province)
    Enga (Province)
    Gulf (Province)
    Madang (Province)
    Manus (Province)
    Milne Bay (Province)
    Morobe (Province)
    New Ireland (Province)
    North Solomons (Province)
    Northern (Province)
    Sandaun (Province)
    Southern Highlands (Province)
    West New Britain (Province)
    Western Highlands (Province)
    Western (Province)

    Data for layers and markers are from GAA.
    Note that positions may be inaccurate or approximate.