Escaping Natures: an Ethnography of Life and Rent in Gran Sabana, Venezuela
Seminar
Participants in the Wings Project (Proyecto Alas) sublimated all the characteristics of escapist visits to the Gran Sabana region, in southern Venezuela. A few years ago, they trekked to Auyantepuy, one of the iconic table-top mountains of this region, and jumped from the mountain top in a wingsuit…
The human-ape interface in an unprotected Cameroonian forest
Seminar
Abstract The Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) and the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) are two relatively unknown ape taxa with critically low population estimates. Since the ‘rediscovery’ of the Cross River gorilla and the subspecies reclassification of the…
Anthropology of Childhood Memory: Family Photographs and Autobiographical Remembering
Seminar
In this talk, Ms Helga (Girschik) Griffin and myself will talk about the life story of German civilians who moved to Persia (Iran) during 1930s for the development of country, then captured by the British army on Iranian soil during the Second World War, and then sent to Australian war camps as war…
The impact of tourism on gibbons: developing best practice guidelines from case studies in Cambodia and China
Seminar
Abstract Nature-based tourism can be a useful conservation tool in regions of high biodiversity value if based on scientific research. Despite the existence of several gibbon focused programmes, there has been little investigation into the impact of tourist presence on the behaviour…
Fashion Forward: rewriting history and place in Oceania
Seminar
The opening pages of Joanne Entwistle’s book The Fashioned Body (2015) asks an intriguing question: does fashion refer only to dress and adornment found in capitalist modernity? If fashion is equated with regular and systemic change, is it only uniquely connected to the emergence of mercantile…
Identification of fallen US soldiers from the Korean War using chest radiographs
Seminar
Abstract The USA Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s mission is the fullest possible accounting for missing service members to their families and the nation. This includes steadfast pursuit of the identification of several thousand unaccounted-for soldiers who fought during the Korean war via…
Comparative Austronesian Relationship Terminologies
Seminar
This is an exercise in what may be deemed ‘old fashioned’ anthropology. Based on a database of approximately 450 Austronesian terminologies and a methodology that defines particular relational patterns, I outline the formal structures of Austronesian relationship terminologies extending from Taiwan…