Vanuatu
The World Factbook: Background: :: Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980, when the new name of Va...read more [Source: The World Factbook ] Wikipedia: Vanuatu (English i/ˌvɑːnuːˈɑːtuː/ vah-noo-AH-too or /vænˈwɑːtuː/ van-WAH-too; Bislama IPA: [vanuaˈtu]), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (French: République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some 1,750 kilometres (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 500 kilometres (310 mi) northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Isla...read more [Source: Wikipedia ]
Expertise (alphabetical order)
Ron ADAMS Senior Research Fellow, Graduate Research Centre at Victoria University, AustraliaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Christianisation , Cultural Change , Custom , Colonialism , Decolonisation , Epistemology , Historical Consciousness , History , Memory
Penner ANGELINA , Bergen Pacific Studies; ECOPAS at University of Bergen, NorwayKeywords: Anthropology , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Anthropology of Ontology , Development Studies , Gender Based Violence , Gender , Globalization , Indigenous Knowledge , Kastom , Pacific Studies
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology at University of Waikato, New ZealandKeywords: Cultural Studies , Development Studies , Diasporas , Education , Indigenous Epistemology , Post-Colonialism , Spirituality , Kava , Indigenous Substances/medicines , Identity
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New ZealandKeywords: Development Studies , Education , Kava/Yaqona , Cognition , Health , Applied Anthropology , Community Development , Cultural Studies , Customary Law , Decolonisation
Jocelyn AZNAR Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft at Universität Zürich, Unibe, SwitzerlandKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Narratives , Literature , Language Documentation , Digital Resources , Linguistic Description , Nisvai Language , Cross-linguistic Studies , Corpus Linguistics
Chris BALLARD Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: 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 KingdomKeywords: Water Resources , Sanitation , Development Studies , Participation , Health , Hygiene , Menstruation , Toilets , Water
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
Richard Michael ('Mike') BOURKE Associate Professor, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Agriculture , Climate Change , Farming Systems , Food and Nutrition , Gardens , Horticulture , Subsistence Economy , Techniques , Taro , Sweet Potato
Tom BRATRUD Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology at University of Oslo, NorwayKeywords: Morality , Social Change , Social Organization , Complexity , Politics , Climate Change , Cosmology , Christianity , Sorcery
Sophie CAILLON Research Fellow, UMR 5175 CEFE Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: Agriculture , Environment , Land Management , Natural Resources , Seed Circulation , Agrobiodiversity , Local/Folk Classification , Local Nomenclature , Social Network Analysis , Coconut
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
Francoise CAYROL Research Fellow, Cnep Pacific's New Studies Center at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia
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
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
Thomas DICK PhD Student, School of Arts and Social Science at Southern Cross University, AustraliaKeywords: Water Music , Agency , Audiovisual and Media , Colonial Discourse , Cultural Production , Creativity , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Development Media , Diasporas , Ethnographic Filmmaking
Laurent DOUSSET Professor, Honorary professor and independent researcher at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandKeywords: Uncertainty , Social Organization , Land Management , Social Change , First Contacts , Environment , Digital Resources , Indigenous Politics , Personhood , Sorcery
Marie-France DUHAMEL Lecturer, School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education - Linguistics at University of the South Pacific, FijiKeywords: Linguistic Description , Linguistic Typology , Language Documentation , Language Change , Sociolinguistics , Languages Of Oceania , Language Variation , Historical Linguistics , Variationist Linguistics , Languages Of Vanuatu
Sebastian T. ELLERICH Lecturer, Musicological Department at University of Cologne, GermanyKeywords: Agriculture , Bislama , History , Identity , Indigenization , Kava , Language Ideology , Music , Music and Languages , Nationalism
Sue FARRAN Professor, Law at Northumbria University, United KingdomKeywords: Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Neo-Colonialism , Post-Colonialism , Sustainability , Development , Children , Legal Pluralism
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
Ian L GRANT Senior Lecturer, Intercultural Studies at Alphacrucis College, AustraliaKeywords: Religion , Big-manship , Leadership , Cultural Change , Contextualisation , Cultural Studies , Political Anthropology , Worldview , Christianity , Missiology
Aymeric HERMANN Adjunct/associate Researcher, UMR 7041 at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: Austronesian Prehistory , Cultural Technology , Exchanges , Material Culture , Techniques , Polynesian Chiefdoms , Social Organization , Anthropology , Geochemistry
Crispin HOWARTH Curator, Pacific Arts at National Gallery of Australia, Australia
Kim Andreas KESSLER , School of Geography at University of Otago, New ZealandKeywords: Development , Resilience , Livelihoods , Aspirations , Aid , Rural-urban Linkages , Spatial Justice , Climate Change Adaptation , History Of Anthropology , Higher Education
Lea Lani KINIKINI KAUVAKA Independent researcher, Pacific Community at EU PacTVET project, TongaKeywords: Resilience , Indigenous Knowledge , Forced Migration , Subaltern Bodies , Māui Genealogies , Body Theory , Coconut Oil , Race , Settlerhood
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
Matthias KOWASCH Professor, Institute of Secondary Teacher Education at University College of Teacher Education Styria, AustriaKeywords: Conflict , Development , Education , Governance , Indigenous Political Movements , Identity , Land Tenure , Mining , Post-Colonialism , Political Ecology
Guillaume LE PORT Independent researcher, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, French PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Conservation , Ecology , Fisheries , French Overseas Territories , Marine Biodiversity , Natural Hazards , Social-ecological System , Tourism , Coastal Erosion
Craig LIND Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United KingdomKeywords: Gender , Intersubjectivity , Landscape , Memory , Migration , Mission History , Museums , Perception , Personhood , Religion
Lamont LINDSTROM Professor, Anthropology at University of Tulsa, United StatesKeywords: Intellectual Property Rights , Indigenous Politics , Language Change , Linguistic Anthropology , Migration , Narratives , Personhood , Politics , Religion , Ritual
Carlos MONDRAGON Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, MexicoKeywords: 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, AustraliaKeywords: Sociolegal , Legal Geography , Cultural Geography , Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Legal Pluralism , Political Ecology , Post-Colonialism , Settler Colonialism
Arnaud NOURY Independent researcher, FranceKeywords: Art , Austronesian Languages , Climate Change , Cosmology , Digital Resources , Myth , History , Austronesian Prehistory , Pacific Studies , Ritual Studies
Patrick NUNN Professor, Sustainability Research Centre at University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Human Ecology , Indigenous Knowledge , Kava , Landscape , Myth , Religion And The Environment , Sustainable Development
Károly Sándor PALLAI Research Fellow, Department of French and Francophone Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryKeywords: Contemporary Literatures , Francophone Literatures , Identity , Postcolonial Literatures , French Overseas Territories , Post-Colonialism , Narratives , Literature , Cultural Studies , Colonial Imagination
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
Ralph REGENVANU Independent researcher, Parliament of Vanuatu at Parliament of Vanuatu, VanuatuKeywords: Agenda Building , Art , Bislama , Bureaucratization , Class , Community Development , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Corruption , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Policy
Benedicta ROUSSEAU Lecturer, Anthropology Programme at University of Waikato, New ZealandKeywords: Disaster , Economic Anthropology , Leadership , Law and Culture , Morality , Sovereignty , Urban Identity , Elections , Kastom , Infrastructure
Alice SERVY Associate Professor, SAGE Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe at University of Strasbourg, FranceKeywords: Health , Sexuality , Gender , Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) , Family Planning , Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) , Sex Workers , Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , Sexual Assaults
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
Monika STERN Research Fellow, CREM (Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie)-LESC (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative); associée au CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: Anthropological Field Records , Art , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Digital Resources , Exchanges , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Social Change , Youth , Music
Marc TABANI Senior Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France
Leslie VANDEPUTTE Assistant Professor, College of Education at the American University in the Emirates, United Arab EmiratesKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Evolution of Language , Contact Linguistic , Digital Resources , Urbanization , Urban Identity , Nationalism , Creoles , Identity , Bislama
Frank WEIGELT Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, GermanyKeywords: Agency , Applied Anthropology , Class , Colonial Discourse , Cognitive Anthropology , Colonialism , Conflict , Conflict Management , Cultural Change , Cultural Heritage
Chelsea WENTWORTH Research Fellow, Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University, United StatesKeywords: Applied Anthropology , Children , Environment , Food and Nutrition , Gardens , Global Health , Medical Anthropology , Urbanization , Visual Anthropology , Mothering
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
Alexandra (Sandra) WIDMER Assistant Professor, Anthropolgy Dept at York University, CanadaKeywords: Colonialism , Food and Nutrition , Gender , Health , Medical Anthropology , Metabolic Disorders , Modernity , Post-Colonialism , Nursing And Midwifery , Reproduction
Elisabeth WORLICZEK Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Change and Sustainability at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), AustriaKeywords: Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Disaster , Interdisciplinarity , Migration , Mining and its Discontents , Natural Hazards , Social Change
René ZIMMER Associate Professor, CNEP Centre des Nouvelles Etude sur le Pacifique at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia
Official Websites Government of Vanuatu... UNESCO - Chief Roi Mata’s Domain... Vanuatu Cultural Centre... Research Centres Pacific Institute of Public Policy...
Libraries and Archives Emalus Campus Library of the University o... Emalus Campus Library of the University of... Emalus Campus Library of the University of...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... Berndt Museum of Anthropology...
Health and Health Research Commonwealth Health Online... Institut of Health Metrics and Evaluation... Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
Languages
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec
Administrative Areas Malampa (Province) Penama (Province) Sanma (Province) Shefa (Province) Tafea (Province) Torba (Province)