In this guest blog post, Prof Dame Anne Salmond provides a comment on the recent article by Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau, “James Cook and White Supremacy.” Here, Dame Salmond argues for a more complex, relational understanding of past events in order to open up alternative visions of how groups might relate to one another across difference.
James Cook and White Supremacy, by Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau
In this guest blog post, Lorena Gibson, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau respond to Prof Dame Anne Salmond’s recent article, “Was James Cook a white supremacist?” In that article, Dame Salmond argues that James Cook was not a white supremacist. Here, the authors discuss why they disagree with this interpretation.
SOMAA 2019 Dialogue Presentations and Registration Information
Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa (SOMAA) 2019 convenors Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Mythily Meher, and Pauline Herbst are happy to share the dialogue presenters for this years SOMAA hui, Biomedical Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands. SOMAA2019 will be held on 28 November in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, New Zealand. If you would like to attend, RSVP to Pauline Herbst by 20 October 2019.
Call for Nominations: The Sam Taylor-Alexander Early Career Researcher Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology
Business or Public Good? Aotearoa’s Universities at a Crossroads, by Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich
In this guest blog post, Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich considers how universities in Aotearoa became positioned as economic players in the contested market of the global knowledge economy, and asks how we might reimagine our universities in ways that deepen democracy and embrace academic values.
Kākano Fund Round Two 2019 - call for applications
Graduate Stories: Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, PhD
This instalment of our Graduate Stories features Dr Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean, who was recently awarded a doctorate in Anthropology from Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato (University of Waikato). His thesis, Smallholder Sugarcane Growers, Indigenous Technical Knowledge, and the Sugar Industry Crisis in Fiji, was supervised by Dr Keith Barber, Dr Fiona McCormack and Dr Fraser Macdonald.
Graduate Stories: Mona-Lisa Wareka
Call for presentations: Mahi Tahi panel at ASAA/NZ 2019 Breaking Boundaries conference
Call for Papers: Breaking Boundaries ASAA/NZ Conference 2019
Special Issue of SITES 16(1), Christianity and Development in the Pacific
Position available: Lectureship in Social Anthropology at the University of Waikato
Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Social Anthropology at the University of Waikato. The preference is for a candidate who has conducted ethnographic research in the Pacific, inclusive of Aotearoa, and with expertise in one or more of the following areas: ethnicity and identity; medical anthropology; the ethnography of science and technology; art, aesthetics and performance. Applications close on 19 July 2019 (NZ time).
Position available: 3-year, full-time lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago
Applications are invited for a 3 year, full-time Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, available from 1 February 2020. We are especially interested in hearing from applicants who specialise in environmental anthropology, sounded or visual anthropology or Indigenous anthropology. Applications close on Sunday 14 July 2019 (NZ time).
SOMAA2019 Call for Proposals - Biomedical Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands
They Are Us: Practices of care in digital environments, after the Christchurch mosque attack
Graduate Stories: Shahed Abu Jwaied
Announcing the 2019 SITES senior student essay competition
How the Preamble was added to the ASAA/NZ Principles of Professional Responsibility and Ethical Conduct
ASAA/NZ’s Principles of Professional Responsibility and Ethical Conduct begins with a Preamble affirming our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding document. As far as we know, our anthropological association is unique in beginning its code of ethics with such a commitment. ASAA/NZ Ethics Committee Chair Dr Jeff Sluka relates the story of how the Preamble was added to the ASAA/NZ Principles of Professional Responsibility and Ethical Conduct.
The Responsible Teacher: thoughts on emotion, trauma, and safety in the anthropology classroom - by Susan Wardell
Welcome to our new series, Teaching Anthropologically. This series reflects on the relationship between learning, teaching, and anthropology. The series acknowledges that learning and teaching about anthropology takes place in a diverse range of settings, not just in a secondary or tertiary environment. We are delighted to launch Teaching Anthropologically with this timely piece by Dr Susan Wardell.
