Two important new books by anthropologists working in Aotearoa/New Zealand have just been published.
Kākano Fund Round Two 2016 applications now open
Applications for the second round of Kākano Fund awards are now open. Applications close 21 October 2016.
Postgraduate Students Symposium, 17-18 November 2016
The Kākano Fund: Reporting back to Bel communities, Madang, Papua New Guinea
Fostering anthropological thought through Facebook
Reflections on Disney's Moana
Public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand: Professor Patrick McAllister
Continuing our series on public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand, here we profile Professor Patrick McAllister from the University of Canterbury.
Public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand: Dr Catherine Trundle
This post continues our series on public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand. This week we profile Dr Catherine Trundle from Victoria University of Wellington.
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 29/07/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
This weeks digest contends with the importance and value of nostalgia. How it allows for us to have an escapism to times when ‘we’ felt safer, but, also creates a way to connect across generations over a shared popular medium. Finally showing its importance in creating cultural symbols and the emotions that allow for them to exist.
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 22/07/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 15/07/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
For this week's digest I am addressing space, spatial relations and the new craze of Pokemon GO. The power of the video games both to pop culture and to urban culture. How it becomes a potent force in altering their mutual understandings. Also giving a nod to the US military and the importance of the silence in enacting social change.
Grave matters in Oceania: Special issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society
The Journal of the Polynesian Society has just released a special issue entitled Grave Matters in Oceania.
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 08/07/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
In light of mine and the social media worlds' overwhelming responses to Jesse William’s speech at the BET awards I am grounding this weeks digest in the opposite response. The issues of inward and outward stigma and discrimination. However can the world be completely brained when ‘we’ are often geared toward ignorance and misguided efforts.
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 02/07/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 24/06/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
Anthropologist Christopher Joll to speak in Wellington on 6 July 2016
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 17/06/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
In the light of the recent, heartbreaking, events in Pulse, an LGBTQI night club in Orlando I felt the need to use this week's digest to use to talk about the lives of those who identify as LGBTQI. Whether ‘in’ or ‘outside’ of the metaphorical closet I wanted to discuss the realities for those of us affected by the issues raised in the articles below. Highlighting that whether hidden or seen, safety is not something that is guaranteed and this can be largely influenced by the legislation that creates the ‘worlds’ we all exist within.
