2011 AAA News

BUSINESS MEETING

Friday, November 18, 2011: 18:15-19:30

Organizers:

Justin R Shaffner (University of Cambridge) and Tate A LeFevre (New York University)

MIG SPONSORED SESSION

PRIMITIVIST ENCOUNTERS TODAY: NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES OF INDIGENOUS TOURISM

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 16:00-17:45

Organizers:

Rupert Stasch (UCSD)

Chairs:

Anke Tonnaer (Radboud University Nijmegen)

16:00

Wa Grotesque: Headhunting Theme Parks and the Chinese Nostalgia for Primitive Contemporaries

Magnus Fiskesjo (Cornell University)

16:15

Money, Morality, and Mapula (Payment) In Trobriand-Tourist Interactions

Michelle D MacCarthy (University of Auckland)

16:30

Tourists In a Differentiated Social Field: The Kinship, Geography, and Politics of Tourism Involvement In An Egalitarian Society

Rupert Stasch (UCSD)

16:45

In the Middle: Intermediaries' Relations with Tourists and Toured In Indigenous Australia

Anke Tonnaer (Radboud University Nijmegen)

17:00

"Beach-Boy Elders" and "Young Big Men": Age, Temporality, and Samburu Ethno-Erotic Economies In Postcolonial Kenya

George Paul Meiu (University of Chicago)

17:15

Discussant

Janet A Hoskins (University of Southern California)

17:30

Discussant

Francesca C Merlan (ANU)

Doctoral Scholarship in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews

Doctoral Scholarship in Social Anthropology
Centre for Pacific Studies, University of St Andrews

The St Andrews Centre for Pacific Studies invites applications from candidates with a doctoral research project in any field of Social Anthropology, with a regional focus on the Pacific. This fee waiver doctoral scholarship will start in September 2011 and cover tuition fees at the UK/EU rate (currently £3,732 per annum) for three years.

The Centre for Pacific Studies has a growing body of Faculty, affiliated researchers, postdoctoral researchers and an international cohort of doctoral students. In 2010 we hosted the highly successful ESfO2010 conference 'Exchanging Knowledge in Oceania' which drew 240 delegates from across the world. CPS collaborates with the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group through exchanges and an annual 'North Sea, South Seas' research workshop. CPS has research expertise across the region, but most particularly in island Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. Centre member interests include exchange processes; secrecy and knowledge practices; the urban and narratives of nationhood; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; mining and resource extraction; the analysis of ritual; property rights; the politics of vision; epistemology; gardening; money; institutional culture and cultures of incarceration; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human being; machine thinking; colonial and postcolonial governmentality; genetic engineering; loss and exile; ontogeny as an historical process; climate change.

Further information on the on-going research work and current doctoral student projects being conducted by the Centre for Pacific Studies can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/centres/cps/

How to apply
To discuss proposed doctoral projects please contact either: Dr Tony Crook, Dr Adam Reed or Prof Christina Toren.

To be eligible for this scholarship, prospective students must have been offered a place on the doctoral programme by the closing date. Applications for admission can be submitted online at: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/services/admissions/pgadmissions.html

To be considered for this scholarship, applicants should, in addition, contact Dr Tony Crook to outline their candidacy, and to submit the following: 1. a brief CV, 2. a brief research proposal, and 3. the name and contact details of one suitably qualified referee by the closing date of May 20th 2011.

Last call for panels - March 14

Please submit proposals for panels that MIG could sponsor at the AAA meetings in Montreal to Justin Shaffner (jrshaffner@gmail.com) by March 14.

This year's AAA theme is Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies (see http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/2011-AAA-Annual-Meeting.cfm ). The session should be related to Melanesia in some way.

MRS is back!

Dear all,

The MRS is back! Crack open your new diaries and write this down:

Friday January 21, 2011 3.30pm at the British Museum

Recent Cambridge PhD -- now at the University of Aberdeen -- Katharina Schneider has generously agreed to be our first presenter. Approximately one week before the seminar we will pre-circulate her paper, which will address the following theme:

Who sees what in Pororan marriage exchange?

Over time, anthropologists working in Melanesia have provided increasingly nuanced analyses of exchange, and specifically of the transformations of ‘objects’ and ‘images’ that people perceive in the course of particular sequences of events. One aspect of the complexity of exchange in Melanesia appears to have become sidelined, however, by a predominant interest in the temporal transformation of objects and images. This is the multiplicity of objects, images and sequences of their transformation that different participants perceive in the same sequence of events, and the politics (local and transnational) of who sees what in an exchange. The primary aim of this paper is to demonstrate this aspect of exchange ethnographically, and to discuss some of its implications for Pororan Islanders.

Planning ahead, our second presenter will be Eric Hirsch on Friday February 25 at 3.30pm. Further details will follow.

We hope as many of you as possible can make it. Meanwhile, steer clear of snowbanks!

Michael Scott

(on behalf of his fellow committee members: Lissant and Melissa)

Call for Papers

Law and Culture 2011:

The present is the living past

Hosted by the University of the South Pacific School of Law,

Emalus Campus, Port Vila Vanuatu,

29 August - 31 August 2011

The question of how to make law operate effectively whilst remaining culturally appropriate is critical for all Pacific islands. This question arises, in large part, due to the particular colonial histories of Pacific countries. In order to appreciate how law operates in the current post-colonial environment and the current paths of development that we are following, and that shape our laws, we need to understand where our laws and systems have come from.

The issues that this conference theme give rise to are not only legal, or historical. Understanding the place and operation of laws is inherently interdisciplinary, and requires conversations across a range of disciplines. Pacific scholars from other subject areas, including anthropology, development studies, governance and political studies are encouraged to attend this conference.

• Papers and posters that explore how the historical context shapes contemporary Pacific legal systems are invited.

• Papers addressing any aspect of Pacific legal studies or post-colonial legal studies more generally are also welcomed.

The conference organisers are committed to the development of young Pacific scholars and students and early career researchers from a range of disciplines are particularly encouraged to participate.

Abstracts are due by 24 June 2011 and should be submitted via email to jowitt_a@vanuatu.usp.ac.fj .

For further information, including the abstract submission form and presentation and poster guidelines see the conference website http://www.paclii.org/law-and-culture/ .

2010 MIG update

Dear members of the Melanesian Interest Group of AAA!

I'm writing to give an update from the business meeting in New Orleans. I also want to thank those who attended.

I will be the new convenor for this next year. The new convener-elect will be Tate LeFevre.

We are currently looking for a session that the MIG could sponsor at the next AAA meeting in Montreal, preferably a double session. This year's AAA theme is Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies (see http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/2011-AAA-Annual-Meeting.cfm ). The session should be related to Melanesia in some way. Please contact us if you are planning to organize such a session. Do not wait until it is all finalized and in perfect shape – it may be too late by then.

Also, please join our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26280881106.

All the best,

Justin

MIG Business Meeting

The time and place for this year's business meeting has just been announced, so please, if you plan to attend AAA, mark your calender:

Business Meeting of the Melanesian Interest Group
11/19/2010
6:15:00 PM-8:15:00 PM
Salon 829, Eighth Floor, Sheraton


The MIG has sponsored a AAA session on Vernacular Education:

VERNACULAR EDUCATION IN THE ISLAND PACIFIC AND AMERICA. Papers in Honor of Rex Matang. ORGANIZERS: Christine Schreyer and John Wagner, University of British Columbia – Okanagan.

In this session we explore the cultural meanings of vernacular education programs in Melanesia and comparable settings where local languages are in danger of dying out or becoming moribund. Participants examine the processes through which such programs are created, the impediments to their successful implementation, and the varied meanings, symbolic and material, attached to vernacular language use in these settings. We also examine the relative 'silence' of anthropologists in relation to language endangerment and its long term consequences for cultural identity, local ecological knowledge, cultural and ecological diversity, nation-building and globalization, and how anthropologists may be able to provide a much needed 'voice' on these
topics.


Hoping to see you in New Orleans - especially at the ASAO/MIG party (details will be announced in due time)!

Susanne and Justin

Announcement of Anthropology position at University of Waikato

Dear friends and colleagues,

Apologies for cross posting.

We have finally managed to secure funding for an on-going (= tenure track) replacement position in Anthropology at the University of Waikato. The appointment will be at the level of Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor.

Our preference will be for someone with expertise in Oceania and, quite crucially, able to start mid-year (July 2010). We realise the latter criterion may be difficult for some well qualified candidates but we have been disadvantaged in this search by delays beyond our control.

The deadline for applications is 16 April.

The URL to download the advertisement and position description is:

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/hrm/vacancies/current.shtml

If you have any queries that cannot be answered by the information on the website or by our HRM division please feel free to contact either Anthropology Subject Convenor Judy Macdonald jmac@waikato.ac.nz or Michael Goldsmith mikegold@waikato.ac.nz.

Lastly, please do bring this to the attention of anyone whom you think might be suitable for the position or who might know someone who is.

Justice and Self-Determination in Indonesian Papua

Podcasts of the Oxford Symposium on Justice and Self-Determination in
Indonesian Papua held on 6 February 2010 are now available at:

http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/otjr.php?show=podcasts

It includes the following speakers and subjects:

Opening Remarks
Phil Clark, Convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research

"The Origins of Papua Nationalism"
Pieter Drooglever, Institute of Netherlands History

"The Role of the United States in the New Guinea Dispute"
Albert Kersten, University of Leiden

"Melanesian Dreams"
Jos Marey, former chairman of Papua Student Association

"Living for Independence"
Benny Wenda, Papua leader in exile

"The Genealogy and Logic of Torture in Papua: a Reflection"
Budi Hernawan, Office of Justice and Peace, Jayapura and Australian National University, Canberra

"Human Rights and Transitional Justice - Justice for Papuans?"
Jennifer Robinson, Finers Stephens Innocent LLP and Secretary of International Lawyers for West Papua

"A Roadmap for West Papua?"
Muridan Widjojo, Indonesian Academy of Sciences

"Considerations on the Right to Self-Determination"
Charles Foster, The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health & Primary Health Care, University of Oxford

"Revisiting History and Special Autonomy for Papua"
Agus Sumule, first advisor to the governor of Papua

EU Research and the Pacific

Dear Madam, Sir,

The European research and the Pacific - on the move! The European Commission to facilitate networking between European actors with a research focus on Pacific Islands. You are invited to share this information with potentially interested people and organizations from your contact/mailing lists. Thank you in advance for your help and participation.

La recherche européenne et le Pacifique - ça bouge! La Commission européenne souhaite faciliter la mise en réseau des acteurs européens dont l'objet de recherche porte sur l'Océanie. Vous êtes invités à partager cette information avec les personnes et organisations potentiellement concernées. Merci d'avance pour votre aide et votre participation.

European Commission
DG DEV E1
Relations with the countries and the region of the Pacific
Rue de la Science 15
Brussels
e-mail - dev-research-pacific@ec.europa.eu

---

EU Research and the Pacific

Why?
EU-based research initiatives on the Pacific Islands are generally not well-known and therefore hardly accessible by students, academics, private organizations and institutions such as the European Commission. The bulk of research material is provided by non-European institutes, universities and researchers. This hampers the development of Pacific-centred academics and research in Europe but also the Pacific-tailored policy making and strategy formulation.

What?
Stimulating a European research on the Pacific Islands is one of the 2006 EU strategy for the Pacific objectives. In this context, the Unit responsible for EU-Pacific relations in DG Development wishes to facilitate networking between European actors and organizations with a research focus on Oceania or with research themes relevant for the Region.

How to participate?
The first step is to establish by 31st March 2010, a comprehensive survey of researchers, universities institutes, research centres and initiatives or projects on the Pacific in the EU. The second step would be to start contacts as soon as possible to discuss objectives and expectations of such a European network on the basis of this survey.

Should you be interested please send the following information prior to 31st March 2010 to DEV-RESEARCH-PACIFIC@ec.europa.eu :

1. Name
2. Organizations and contact details
3. Research areas
4. Ongoing and upcoming projects by geographic area (including Melanesia/Micronesia/Polynesia, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand);
5. Partnerships with other national/European/non-European organizations;
6. Views on the added-value of establishing an European network and on expectations vis-à-vis the European Commission.

VACANT POSITION Medical Anthropology, University of Papua New Guinea

Application Deadline: March 5 2010

The University of Papua New Guinea 2010 Position Vacancies
(as published in the Post Courier, Monday, February 8, 2010, on page 34 - for full ad)

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anthropology and Sociology Strand
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor W/011003/10

The discipline of Anthropology and Sociology at the UPNG has an immediate vacancy in the area of MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

The successful candidate will be appointed at Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level depending on qualification, experience and skills. This position is not restricted to PNG citizens.
The relevant qualification for the appointment is a PhD level although candidates with qualifications at MA/MS/MBBS level with sound background in social research and design, professional nursing, public health, and delivery of tertiary educational programs within Asia-Pacific region are certainly desirable and encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate is expected to design and drive a holistic program focused on Anthropology of HIV/Aids and epidemiology of Melanesia at undergraduate and graduate levels. The program should be able to link existing programs and courses in anthropology and sociology and courses in Public Health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The candidate must be highly skilled while remaining cultural sensitive and alert to changes on health issues in Melanesia and beyond.

Salary
Senior Lecturer K33,281 – K 40,677 per annum
Appropriate DMA and ATA calculated at 20% of base salary plus DMA will be added on the base salary.
The University is an equal opportunity employer and encourages females to apply for the positions.

Written applications should also include a Curriculum Vitae, a recent small photograph, the names and addresses of three (3) referees qualified to make comments about the suitability of the applicants. In order to expedite the appointment procedures, applicants are advised to contact their referees to send confidential reports directly to the University without waiting to be contacted.

All applicants will be treated strictly confidential, AND WILL CLOSE ON 05th MARCH, 2010.

Applications should be forwarded to the Director, Human Resources Management Division, UPNG, PO Box 320, UNIVERSITY, National Capital District, or faxed to +675 326.7187 or emailed to staffadm@upng.ac.pg

Jennifer G. Popat, Registrar.

3-year Post-doctoral position: Artefacts of Encounter project

The advertisement for a 3-year post-doctoral position on the Artefacts of Encounter project:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/jobs/vacancies.cgi?job=6314

The closing date is March 21.

Conference on Development

February 26-28, 2010

An international development conference bringing together students, faculty, and experts from Standford University and institutions across Papua New Guinea.

Conference website: http://www.panango.org/indexpng.html

MIG update

Dear members of the Melanesian Interest Group of AAA!

This is to wish you a lovely 2010 and introduce ourselves. Susanne Kuehling is the convener for the next year, and the new convener-elect is Justin Shaffner. We are looking forward to a year of good networking and hope to see many of you at the upcoming ASAO conference in Alexandria, and the ESfO conference in St Andrews in July.

We are currently looking for a session(s?) that MIG could sponsor at the next AAA meeting in New Orleans. It should be related to Melanesia in some way. We invite you to be creative in your interpretations and look forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,

Susanne Kuehling and Justin Shaffner

ASAO 2010 Annual Meeting

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Annual Meeting: February 9-13, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Old Towne, Alexandria, Virginia USA

MEETING REGISTRATION: DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION IS TODAY, DECEMBER 31!!!
• The 2010 meeting registration and membership renewal form was sent to all who were members in 2009. A blank form is available on the ASAO website. The form, together with your registration fee and membership dues, to the ASAO Treasurer, Mary McCutcheon.
• Checks should be payable to “ASAO” and in U.S. dollars or the equivalent amount in other currencies.
• Credit cards are also accepted: please see the “PayPal” instructions on the ASAO website at: http://www.asao.org/pacific/membership.htm
• Deadline for registering before the meetings is December 31. After that date, onsite registration only. Onsite payments made be made by check, credit card/PayPal, or cash.

HOTEL AND MEETING ROOMS: DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS AT CONFERENCE RATE IS JANUARY 10!
• Accommodations have been arranged for ASAO members at the Crowne Plaza Hotel for a special rate of US$139 (+ tax) per night for single or double rooms.
• Hotel information is on the ASAO website : http://www.asao.org/pacific/futuremeetings.htm
• Deadline for hotel reservations at the reduced conference rate: January 10.

GROUND TRANSPORTATION
• Free hotel shuttle to Ronald Reagan National Airport and the Metro (the station at the airport).
• Taxi fare to the hotel from Dulles International Airport is $40-$50.
• Super Shuttle from Dulles International Airport to the hotel is $35 for a shared ride. Reservations for the Super Shuttle must be made before you arrive. Call tollfree 1-800-258-3826 or reserve online at http://www.supershuttle.com.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (FOR MORE DETAILS, SEE THE DECEMBER NEWSLETTER)
Tuesday, Feb. 9th
• Board meeting (evening)

Wednesday, Feb. 10
• Board meeting (morning)
• Registration desk and book exhibit open (afternoon)
• Special tour: Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Museum Support Center,, Suitland, Maryland (afternoon, details to be announced)
• Session organizers meeting (evening)
• Opening Plenary Session (evening)
• Welcome Party (evening)

Thursday, Feb. 11
• Sessions (all day)
• Registration desk and book exhibit open (all day)

Friday, Feb. 12 Sessions (all day)
• Registration desk and book exhibit open (all day)
• Distinguished lecture (Adrienne Kaeppler) and reception (evening)

Saturday, Feb. 13
• Sessions (all day)
• Registration desk and book exhibit open (morning only)
•Closing Plenary Session (evening)

ESfO 2010 'Exchanging Knowledge in Oceania'

European Society for Oceanists, 8th Conference
ESfO 2010 'Exchanging Knowledge in Oceania'
St Andrews, July 5th - 8th 2010

Firstly, we are pleased to announce the following keynote talks:

• Monday 5th July: Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge) will give the Sir Raymond Firth Memorial Lecture.
• Tuesday 6th July: Professor Marcia Langton (University of Melbourne).
• Wednesday 7th July: Associate Professor Vicente Diaz, (University of Michigan).
• Thursday 8th July: Rt. Hon. Ralph Regenvanu MP (Vanuatu National Cultural Council).

Secondly, due to the popularity of the conference and to give intending delegates more time to secure funding and to confirm their attendance, the Call for Papers Deadline has now been extended to 31st January 2010. Although some working sessions are over-subscribed, there is still space in many others, and all of the twenty-four working sessions remain open.

Conference registration is now open. Bookings for accommodation, meals, social events etc can be made through an online shop. The registration page has details of options and prices and can be found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/esfo2010/registration/

ESfO 2010 website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/esfo2010

Hailans to Ailans

Hailans to Ailans (hailanstoailans.com) is a two part exhibition showing work in a variety of media by five contemporary Papua New Guinea artists and two artists of the Coast Salish nation.

Part 1 opens at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK, on September 16, 2009 and runs through October 17. Other events include a live art installation with bilum wear by Cathy Kata, produced with the participation of of Pacific artist Rosanna Raymond, and a performance by Michael Mel at 6.30 p.m. on September 24th.

Part 2 opens at Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, B.C. on November 5, 2009 and runs to November 26. Other scheduled events will include a ceremonial welcome by the Coast Salish people and a performance by Michael Mel. Please consult the exhibition webpage for further details about the artists and events. An online catalogue of essays and artist interviews will also be available on the webpage in August.Hailans to Ailans is curated by Pamela Rosi (Bridgewater College, MA) and Michael Mel (University of Goroka, EHP).

KAUAGE: ARTIST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

an exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Cambridge

March 18-April 18 2009

Opening event, with lecture by Georgina Beier, on March 17, from 3 pm
**

Mathias Kauage was an exuberant painter and a founding figure of modern art in the Pacific.

Kauage (c. 1944-2003) was born in Chimbu Province in the Papua New Guinea highlands. In the late 1960s he was employed as a labourer in Port Moresby and was inspired by an exhibition of drawings by a fellow-Highlander, Timothy Akis. Like Akis, he was encouraged by Georgina Beier. Together with her husband Ulli, Georgina influentially supported contemporary art, theatre, and literature in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere.

Kauage’s work evolved rapidly. Early on he drew fantastic creatures inspired by Chimbu myth, but soon progressed to scenes of Moresby town life and political events. Embracing colour, he went on to produce major paintings around Papua New Guinea’s Independence in 1975, aspects of colonial history, and his own experience – not least his meeting with the Queen, who awarded him an OBE in 1998. His later works were often signed ‘Kauage – Artist of PNG’.

This exhibition foregrounds a previously unexhibited group of early Kauage drawings and beaten copper panels, which form part of a generous donation to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by Dame Marilyn Strathern (William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, 1993-2008), who conducted fieldwork in the PNG Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward.
Visitors to the exhibition also get the chance to listen to a rare early recording of Kauage singing and playing Chimbu instruments such as a bamboo flute.

‘Kauage: Artist of Papua New Guinea’ is a revelation of Kauage’s creativity. His unique intelligence and visual inventiveness suggest new ways of thinking about the emergence of ‘modern art’ beyond the West.

On Tuesday March 17, a public lecture and symposium coincide with the exhibition opening. Georgina Beier will speak on Creating his own tradition at 2.30 pm in the McDonald Seminar Room, in the McDonald Institute (off Downing Street, directly adjacent to the Museum). Helena Regius, Ruth Phillips, and Nicholas Thomas will contribute to a panel discussion.

**
The Museum plans in due course to publish a catalogue of the collection, together with Marilyn’s previous donation of textiles from Hara Hara Prints, a screenprint workshop in which Georgina Beier also played a key role (see Strathern, ‘Emblems, ornaments and inversions of value’ in Kuechler and Were (eds), The Art of Clothing, UCL Press 2005). In the context of this project, we would be most interested to hear from anthropologists and others who were in Port Moresby in the 1970s or subsequently, and own original works by Kauage or contemporaries, and/or may be able to help with relevant information.
Nicholas Thomas
njt35 [at] cam.ac.uk

News and Call for AAA 2009 MIG Proposals

As many of you have probably surmised, Susanne Kuehling was elected as convener elect for the Melanesia Interest Group. She and I will be in touch with many of you as we organize for next years AAAs. On that note, we are still soliciting ideas for panels and we hope that those of you heading off to the ASAO meetings this week will give some thought/ discussion to topics and themes that would fit the bill of a Melanesian Interest Group session. MIG sessions have always sought to communicate the relevance of Melanesia to a wider audience, and typically include comparisons within the Pacific and with other regions of the world.

The theme for next year’s meetings suggests many possibilities along these lines and is titled “The End/s of Anthropology.” The AAA invites considerations of the end as ‘both conclusions and purposes,’ and I would think that the overlap of these two meanings would speak to certain sensibilities in the Pacific. Conference organizers have suggested the following sub-foci: The end/s of relativism, the end/s of identity, and the end/s of publics. All of which are certainly areas in which MIG members have expertise.

For further elaboration on the theme please see: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/presenters/Meeting-Theme.cfm


Also I’d like to invite folks to join us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26280881106


Cheers,

Jamon Halvaksz and Susanne Kuehling

Lecturer in the Arts of the Pacific (University of East Anglia)

While people may have see the following on the AAA job center, I thought the following position was worth advertising here on the blog as it is for someone working in the Pacific (and thus Melanesia). I should disclose I held this position for three years (2005-08) and thoroughly enjoyed the intellectual and social environment of the Sainsbury Research Unit and the larger school of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia. The teaching load is light (by all standards) and there is wide ranging scope for and support for developing one's own research.

Lecturer in the Arts of the Pacific in United Kingdom

Salary: 37,651.00 - 43,622.00
Type: Full Time - Middle

Applications are invited for an indefinite full-time Lectureship in the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, UK, to commence on 1 September 2009. Primary responsibilities include co-teaching an MA course, supervising graduate students, limited undergraduate teaching and participation in research projects. See www.sru.uea.ac.uk for further information on the Sainsbury Research Unit. The closing date for applications is 19 January 2009 and interviews are expected to be held on 27 February 2009. Further particulars and an application form can be obtained from the University's web page at: http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ or by e-mail at hr@uea.ac.uk or by calling the answerphone on 01603 593493 or by mail to the Human Resources Division, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ. Please quote the appropriate reference number.

Requirements:
Applicants should have a doctorate in anthropology, art history, archaeology or a related subject and should have fieldwork experience, strong interests in visual arts, a good record of original research and the capacity for research led instruction. Expertise in museum anthropology and theoretical approaches to material culture is desirable.

Preferred Education: Doctorate

NOTES: International Candidates Will Be Considered. Employer will assist with relocation costs.
Additional Salary Information: Salary is in GBP Sterling.

Apply online at http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3037333.32