Research

The Department of Anthropology is internationally renowned for innovative research in the Pacific. As well as Australia and New Zealand, we have projects in:

• Easter Island
• Fiji
• Hawai'i
• Cook Islands
• Marquesas
• Tokelau
• Solomon Islands
• Papua New Guinea.

Research topics range from prehistory to material culture, art to religion, fashion, gender, intellectual property, music, health, ecology, osteology and genetics.

Our research also extends worldwide, including work in Europe, India, Taiwan, China and the Middle East. Topics include: political anthropology, primate and human ecology, human growth, traditional and popular music and archaeological projects.

Our staff are involved in a wide range of research activities. More detailed information about current research projects, recent publications and research supervision can be found on individual staff pages.

• Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons Marine Resource Management Project
• Archaeology and Culture History of Vella Lavella Western Province Solomon Islands
• New Georgia Archaeological survey
• Transnational Health in the Pacific Through the Lens of TB
• Political Ecology of TB in New Zealand
   

Our staff are involved in a wide range of research activities. More detailed information about current research projects, recent publications and research supervision can be found on individual staff pages.

For an overview of staff areas of research, see the Anthropology staff research interests page.