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.”
A Dark Perspective of Anthropology: A Response, by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
A Dark Perspective of Anthropology, by Arcia Tecun
James Cook and White Supremacy: A Comment, by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
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).
