ethnomusicology

Graduate Stories: Ata Siulua

This instalment of Graduate Stories features Ata Siulua, PhD researcher at Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau (University of Auckland), whose thesis is entitled “Harmonising Home: Marking Tongan Indigeneity through Family and Music.”

Special Issue of SITES 15(1), Ethnographic Frontiers: Pushing the Boundaries of Ethnography

The Special Issue of SITES (Volume 15, No 1), Ethnographic Frontiers: Pushing the Boundaries of Ethnography, edited by Sita Venkateswar and Barbara Andersen, has now been published.

Celebrating anthropological research in New Zealand: Lorena Gibson

Dr Lorena Gibson is one of the 2016 recipients of a prestigious Marsden Fast-Start Award. Her project, East Side Orchestras: Music, Poverty, and Social Change, explores the social impacts of three charitable organisations that provide free music education programmes inspired by El Sistema, one of the world’s most successful movements for musical and social development, in low decile schools in urban Wellington.