I will be posting here from time to time about the latest news on my projects, and any upcoming speaking appeareances.

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Black Sand Stories

I archived 55+ hours of audiovideo recordings in 2021 from my 2019 fieldwork in Vanuatu and realized that I never actually let anyone know! So here it is: https://www.elararchive.org/dk0565/ (in open access, just need to register in ELAR, I think). Below is a showreel of the collection.

January 19, 2023

Kosa namitaris masan risi asa koavi onom.

Today I come to give you back what is yours.

November 23, 2022

Next stop of the “Mutis en Atan” book tour: Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Today was a keystone in my language and culture documentation career. I had the opportunity to deliver the result of a several year long project in the form of a book for children to the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Accompanied by my adoptive Paamese father, Chief Kunde Toka, I handed over copies…

November 9, 2022

We need more emic/etic collaborations

Thank you Nick Enfield and colleagues for the invitation and interesting discussion on kinship, gestures, and meaning! A very welcoming research group at the University of Sydney. I was also honored by the presence of uan onak Johnny Obed, a Paamese man living in Sydney, who came to the talk on Paamese kinship. It was…

November 8, 2022

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