Emerita Professor
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Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D., Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1980
M.A., Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College, 1974
B.A., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1970
My research interests have included the anthropology of place, colonial and postcolonial politics, nuclear testing, tourism and travel. Geographically I have focused on Oceania, where I’ve done fieldwork in both Papua New Guinea (for three years in the 70s and 80s) and French Polynesia (for 18 months from 1993-2014). I retired in 2015 and currently live in Philadelphia, where I am involved in food justice research and activism, helping to get affordable healthy food in low-income neighborhoods.
Research
Selected Research
- 1994 Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society. Paperback edition with Waveland Press of 1986 Cambridge hard cover
- 1995 Heterotopic Dissonance in the Museum Representation of Pacific Island Cultures. American Anthropologist 97(2):324-38.
- 1996 Your Place and Mine: Sharing Emotional Landscapes in Wamira, Papua New Guinea. S. Feld and K. Basso eds. Senses of Place. Santa Fe: School of American Research. Pp. 167-96.
- 2000 Tahiti Intertwined: Ancestral Land, Tourist Postcard, and Nuclear Test Site. American Anthropologist 102(1):7-26.
- 2003 Tahiti: The Ripples of a Myth on the Shores of the Imagination. History and Anthropology 14(4):307-26.
- 2005 Pacific Voices: Keeping Our Cultures Alive (co-authored with Erin Younger). Seattle: UW Press. WINNER OF “OUTSTANDING TITLE AWARD,” by Association of American University Presses, American Association of School Librarians, and Public Library Association, 2006.
- 2007 Narrating Colonial Encounters: Germany in the Pacific Islands (co-edited with Sabine Wilke). The Journal of Pacific History, special issue, Vol. 42, No. 3.
- 2011 Tahiti Beyond the Postcard: Power, Place and Everyday Life. UW Press. WINNER OF 2013 ICAS BOOK PRIZE.
- 2015 Cross-currents: Teana and Moenau, Tahitian Tourists in Seattle, Summer, 2013. J. Taylor and K. Aleseyeff eds. Touring Pacific Cultures. Canberra. ANU Press. Pp. 299-312.
- 2014 “Invest in Your Love:” Romantic Desires, YouTube Videos, and the Online Marketing of Tahiti. Tourist Studies 14(2): 144-167.
- 1997 Pacific Voices Exhibit, Burke Museum.
Research Advised
- Young, T. Kalani. Compassionate Eruptions: Aloha 'Aina, Queer Indigeneity, and the Social Production of Pu'uhonua in Hawai'i. Diss. U of Washington. 2019.
- Ryker-Crawford, Jessie. Towards an Indigenous Museology: Native American and First Nation Representation and Voice in North American Museums. Diss. U of Washington. 2017.
- Erickson, Olivia Littles. Co-constructing Racial Identities at Seattle's Northwest African American Museum. Diss. U of Washington, 2015.
- Allen, Robertson Lee. War Games at Work Networks of Power in the U.S. Army Video Game Project. Diss. U of Washington, 2012.
- Truong, Hang Thi Thu. Doing It for Him: Religion and Tourism on Long Sơn Island, Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu Province, Vietnam. Diss. U of Washington, 2011.
- Meierotto, Lisa. The Co-evolution of Nature Conservation and Militarization on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Diss. U of Washington, 2009.
- Brugger, Julie V. Public Land and American Democratic Imaginaries: A Case Study of Conflict over the Management of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Diss. U of Washington, 2009.
- Ka'ili, Tēvita O. Tauhi Vā: Creating Beauty through the Art of Sociospatial Relations. Diss. U of Washington, 2008.
- Young, Tatiana Kalaniopua. Tent City Warriors: Place, Power and Pu'uhonua in Contemporary Hawai‘i. Expected 2018.
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