A Special General Meeting will be held in Wellington at 3pm on Wednesday 10 May. All ASAA/NZ members, and those interested in joining our Association, are welcome to attend.
New publication on Housing Children in South Auckland
Housing Children: South Auckland The Housing Pathways Longitudinal Study is an important new study about housing and wellbeing in New Zealand by anthropologists Kathryn Scott, Julie Park, and Patricia Laing.
Public Anthropology in New Zealand: What’s the Haps, by Josh Connolly
ASAA/NZ February AGM Cancelled
Support for Otago Anthropology
Yesterday we made a statement about the redundancies in social anthropology at the University of Otago. Below is a response from Professor Richard Walter, Head of Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Otago, which extends a more hopeful message about the situation.
Redundancies in anthropology at Otago Unviersity
Save the date: 50 year anniversary of Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington
10 questions with ... Melissa Marques
Celebrating anthropological research in New Zealand: Lorena Gibson
Dr Lorena Gibson is one of the 2016 recipients of a prestigious Marsden Fast-Start Award. Her project, East Side Orchestras: Music, Poverty, and Social Change, explores the social impacts of three charitable organisations that provide free music education programmes inspired by El Sistema, one of the world’s most successful movements for musical and social development, in low decile schools in urban Wellington.
10 questions with ... Terrence Loomis
In this installment of '10 questions with ...' we feature Dr Terrence Loomis, whose book Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand: Texas of the South Pacific will be published later this month.
Professor Cris Shore elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Water and elephants: Two new books you should read
Fostering anthropological thought through Facebook
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 02/06/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
Anglo-Indians in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond
This post continues our series on public anthropology in Aotearoa New Zealand. This week we profile Robyn Andrews and her work with Anglo-Indians.