Stuart Kirsch

Biography:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, app’t 1995
B.A. George Washington University, 1982
Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania, 1991

Research/Teaching Specializations: Political ecology, indigenous social movements, cultural property rights, anthropology of religion, global-

Field Research: Papua New Guinea: 2000, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1987-89; 1986; Marshall Islands: 1999; Solomon Islands: 1999, 1998

Recent Publications: "Anthropology and Advocacy: A Case Study of the Campaign against the Ok Tedi Mine." in Critique of Anthropology, 22(2); "Rumour and Other Narratives of Political Violence in West Papua." in Critique of Anthropology 22(1); "Lost Worlds: Environmental Disaster, 'Culture Loss' and the Law." (with CAI Comments) in Current Anthropology 42(2); "Property Effects: Social Networks and Compensation Claims in Melanesia." in Social Anthropology 9(2); "Changing Views of Place and Time along the Ok Tedi" in Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea, ed. Alan Rumsey and James Weiner, Adelaide: Crawford House Press; "Ethnographic Methods: Concepts and Field Techniques" in Social Analysis: Selected Tools and Techniques, by Richard A. Krueger, Mary Anne Casey, Jonathan Donner, Stuart Kirsch, Jonathan Maack;”Social Development Paper 36,” Washington DC: Social Development Department, the World Bank; "An Incomplete Victory At Ok Tedi," Human Rights Dialogue 2(2).

Awards and Honors: funded for 3 years for a UK Economic and Social Research Council project "Property, Transactions and Creations: New Economic Relations in the Pacific"

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