ASAA/NZ is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards: Maria Blanca Ayala (University of Canterbury); Nicola Manghi (Università di Torino/University of Waikato); Mona-Lisa Wareka (University of Waikato); and Brodie Quinn (University of Auckland). These awards recognise excellence in conference presentation skills by ASAA/NZ graduate student members.
Special Issue of SITES 16(1), Christianity and Development in the Pacific
Marsden success for Dr Fraser Macdonald
10 questions with ... Susan Wardell
Graduate Stories: Kris Finlayson
In Graduate Stories we showcase some of the outstanding graduate researchers working in various anthropology departments, or on anthropological topics, around Aotearoa New Zealand. This instalment features Kris Finlayson, who is about to submit his Masters thesis on the identity of Afrikaans-speakers’ in New Zealand’s society.
'Are you sure you're not a Christian?': Negotiating identity within and beyond fieldwork, by Jess Carter
Permanent, full-time position available in Social Anthropology at Massey University (Albany campus)
Applications are invited for a lectureship in Social Anthropology to be located at Massey University's Albany Campus in Auckland. The appointee will possess a doctorate in Social or Cultural Anthropology and will have relevant research expertise in the anthropology of religion. Applications close 30 April 2018.
Call for proposals for new Routledge book series: Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Celebrating anthropological research in New Zealand: Jeff Sissons
Associate Professor Jeff Sissons has just been awarded a prestigious Marsden grant for his new project, The mysterious disappearance of tūāhu.
Reflections on Disney's Moana
Anthropologist Christopher Joll to speak in Wellington on 6 July 2016
Woven Together? Christianity and Development between New Zealand and the Pacific
Victoria University of Wellington's Religious Studies Programme is hosting a conference investigating the relationships between Christianity and development in the Pacific. The event will be of particular interest to those with an interest in Pacific, international aid and development, anthropology, history, and religion.
